Rajkot NGOs adopt 111 HIV positive children

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Rajkot NGOs adopt 111 HIV positive children

From our ANI Correspondent

Rajkot (Gujarat), May 27: Over a hundred HIV positive children got a

new lease of life on Sunday as various NGOs in Rajkot joined hands to

sponsor them.

Rajkot AIDS Prevention Club, Rajkot NDP and Giants International, all

of whom have been working for the cause of HIV positive people and to

spread awareness on HIV, have adopted 111 HIV positive children from

Gujarat's Saurashtra region.

The children will not only get financial aid, but will also be taken

care of by providing treatment and medicines.

" They (HIV positive children) need help. So, we have selected 111

such students from Saurashtra (region), which includes 58 children

from Rajkot and the rest from Gondal, Jetpur, Jamnagar and (we) will

give them aid of 350 to 1,000 rupees every month and we will visit

the places and if they need more, we will do that, " said AIDS

Prevention Club, Rajkot, President Arun Dave.

Padma Ben Patel, mother of an HIV positive child, said: " I think this

is a wonderful gesture of adopting 111 children, which also includes

my son. I am making all efforts to make my child's life comfortable.

But with the help of such organisations, I am sure, we will get lot

of much needed help. "

Children were excited receiving study material as gifts from the NGOs.

" Today I got a school bag, notebooks and I want to study further. I

would like to become a doctor one day " , said Jigar.

According to the United Nations, India last year overtook South

Africa as the country with the most people living with HIV -- an

estimated 5.7 million.

As per the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), most of these

people are in the age group of 15 to 35.

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