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The Spring of Life Centre is a place of hope for Nigeria’s growing AIDS-affected population. Seven years ago, ECWA (Evangelical Church of West Africa) and SIM developed the AIDS Awareness and Counseling programme in the city of Jos. The vision quickly expanded into a ministry centre called Spring of Life staffed by workers from Nigeria and other countries.

In ECWA churches alone, there were a quarter of a million orphans by 2005. The children’s basic needs for shelter and food are the most urgent. Children’s education is also a major priority for dying parents.

What is our strategy? Staff members attempt to work with terminally ill sufferers and their children before parents die, and then with the extended families who open their homes to the orphans. This level of contact ensures that funding gets to the most needy. When appropriate, extended families are assisted to develop their own income-generating businesses to help support the orphans.

The ECWA AIDS ministry team believes it is vital to motivate local churches to be involved. They can assist in building an additional room on a house for orphans, provide assistance for school fees, or running an after school club. Local ECWA churches have stepped forward to respond to needs.

Is there a way to help those infected with AIDS and their children? ABSOLUTELY, YES! Now there are effective grassroots solutions. The most urgent need is for funding to support these efforts. Options of how your funding could be used are as follows:

• Home Care Kit – most AIDS sufferers die at home. As Spring of Life staff visit homes they can take a home care kit. These contain supplies to ease the patients’ symptoms of rashes, coughing, vomiting and diarrhoea, and head and neck aches.
• Super Home Care Kit – contains all of the above plus an extra blanket, sheet and face cloth.
• Needed medicines for 1 month
• Buy food for 1 month
• Pay school fees for 6 months
• Support a family for 1 month
• Set up a small business for income generation
• Pay rental on a house for 1 month.
• Pay for free testing to encourage more people to be tested

In order to slow the spread of HIV and to continue to provide care and education for the community, the centre needs financial partners.

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For more information contact the SIM office on 09 535 0060 or email them at info@sim.org.nz