INTRODUCTION

Sub-Saharan, Africa is more heavily affected by AIDS than any other region of the world.  There is an estimated 14 million AIDS orphans and that number is expected to grow to 20 million by 2010.  The vision and goal of AOSC is to provide for children whose parents have died of the HIV/AIDS virus, and children or widows who do not have a sustaining family.

BEGINNING

In 1992 Robert M. Bland, President of Teen Missions Int’l. (TMI) asked the TMI board for seed money to start Orphanages to rescue as many children as possible. The TMI board not only gave start-up funds but also full use of all their video Studio, printing, and graphics equipment. AIDS Orphans was incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1993.  In 1997 AIDS Orphans and Street Children began with a traditional orphanage.  By 2001 we discovered a new concept in taking the “orphanage to the orphan” and that has allowed us a more practical way to help thousands.

RESCUE UNITS

The Rescue Units are small portable buildings set up near the orphans’ own villages.  We can help several hundred orphans in a three to five mile radius of a Unit which we couldn’t possibly do with a resident orphanage.  Through these Units, we are meeting the needs of children who once had no one to care for them. We assist the children by providing them with:

1. Medical treatment and the provision of malaria and other common preventative medications.

2. Food during nutrition seminars and teaching them how to plant gardens and care for animals to prevent starvation.

3. Educational opportunities by providing school fees and uniforms for primary education.

4. Camps for spiritual and social development.

We are also making a difference by enhancing village life through the donations of nutrition seminars, wells and grinding mills.

MATRON’S UNITS

Secondary schools are few and far between in these remote bush areas and many girls have to walk in excess of seven miles each way to school.  Staying with families who live near the schools has not proved to be a successful alternative as many are abused.  To help keep these girls safe, we began a dormitory program in 2003.  By fall of 2004 we had 67 girls boarding with us under the supervision of two matrons (young lady graduates of our national Bible schools). Before we started the dormitories, the headmaster reported that 50% of the girls were abused or became pregnant, many most likely will contract AIDS.  Our matrons reported after the first year that there was not a single pregnancy and all the girls except two advanced to the next grade.  Currently we are caring for over 300 girls.

GROWTH

The number of children that can be reached through AIDS Orphans and Street Children is only limited by finances and staff.

STAFF

The facilitators who are graduates of our national Bible schools are the lifeblood of the Rescue Units.  These are very special national people who abound in love, servanthood and perseverance in the most remote areas of the bush.  They make themselves available to the children and the villagers day and night, seven days a week.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Orphan Sponsorship

For only $12 a month you can sponsor an orphan.  You will receive a photo of your child and will be able to write letters and send pictures through our office in Merritt Island, Florida. NOTE: Your sponsorship gift will not be placed directly into an orphans’ hand but will be used to increase and expand existing programs at the child’s Unit.

Fund Raisers

We have several programs in place to help your youth group, homeschool group, VBS or church raise funds for AIDS Orphans, complete with printed materials to help you organize and carry out the event.

Adult Teams

Annually we send Adult Work/Sewing Teams to our Rescue Units to do various projects.

Project Brochure

Available upon request is a Project Brochure with opportunities.

Needed Items

If you want to help by sending something practical.  We are always in need of shoes and socks for our Foot washing teams and the following medical items:

Children’s non-aspirin pain releivers

Children’s cold medicines

Bandaids

Cotton Balls

Toothache medicines

Antibiotic oinments

DOCTRINAL STATEMENT

1. We believe the Bible to be inspired, the only infallible and
authoritative Word of God.
2. We believe that there is one God, eternally existent in the three
persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
3. We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin
birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood and His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His tangible return in power and glory.
4. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful man,
regeneration by the Holy Spirit is absolutely essential.
5. We believe in the present ministry of the Holy Spirit by whose
indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a godly life.
6. We believe in the resurrection of the body of the saved and
lost: they that are saved unto the resurrection of life and they that are lost unto the resurrection of damnation.
7. We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in Christ.