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= = toc =Our Narrowed Topic= - Children with HIV/AIDS in Johannesburg, South Africa.

=Case Study One:= - We did our first case study on two different organizations helping the effort to relief HIV/AIDS impact in South Africa.

The 1st organization helping this issue is called UNICEF. Part of their work includes working with African people and teaching them how to prevent HIV/AIDS and working with the South African Government. Exactly, they are trying to raise awareness about what HIV/AIDS can do and ways to prevent it, therefore making less people having the risk of being infected with HIV/AIDS. One thing we like about them is that they are helping people with HIV/AIDS get medical attention, by delivering related supplies to 65 countries. Another thing that I liked as that they were teaching people how to prevent HIV/AIDS. One question that I have about it is that I wonder how preventing AIDS helps people in general? One way that we could be involved is by teaching people at SAS about what is HIV/AIDS and preventing it.
 * Organization 1:**

The 2nd organization is called //AIDS foundation South Africa,// and basically they help South African people cope with HIV/AIDS and they are teaching people how to prevent it. They are trying to give health care to terminally ill people, helping orphans, and vulnerable children. They are also informing people about how to prevent HIV/AIDS. One thing i like about this organization is that they are helping people with AIDS survive and they are giving them health care. Another thing I like is that they did was that they built homes for people with AIDS in the mountains. One question i have about this is that how do you think preventing AIDS helps people in general? and what difficulties you might have encountered doing this project? One way that we could become involved with this is fundraising money and donating them, or we can advertise the dangers of HIV around the school and community, and inform people about how they can prevent it. =Case Study Two:= - Our second Case study is a more detailed account of our narrowed topic.
 * Organization 2:**

__Case Study 2:__
Our topic is Children with HIV/AIDS in Johannesburg, South Africa by donating the money we will get from fundraisers to various organizations. The reason we picked this topic is that there are alot of people suffering from HIV/AIDS right this moment and we want to find a way to help them. The organization that we picked was called SOS Children. The reason we picked this organization is because it has information and projects relevant and related to our topic. I think that this organization has done alot in the supporting category for helping children with AIDS. They are currently also building homes for orphans and children who are vunerable to the disease and supporting people that already have HIV/AIDS or are in danger of having it and teaching them how to prevent it, and teaching them lessons on personal hygiene. 3. What exactly are they doing to try and combat or change your issue? ** Like I said before, they are supporting children who are vulnerable to AIDS and they are currently having a fundraiser on their site in which u donate money to support a child. They are also organizing "children villages" to send children who already have AIDS to the village and they will benifit from food parcels, education, and income-generation support. They are also working with various hospitals on helping people who are ill get the supplies they need. Another project they are doing is trying to improve some schools and preschools in South Africa for better education.  They help orphans, and children in need not with just medicine and health care, but also with uniforms for school and stuff. Clean food, water, clothes, all of these are essential for a healthy life, and it's good that children without support can finally get these. They care for children who have become orphaned by AIDS, they're parents infected and dead. Even if a child is infected with HIV, they still love and care for the child, until it becomes helpless, but they are giving children in Africa better lives. For a start, there are a number of ways that we can become involved with this organizations plans, and help them achieve those plans. Almost all of these NGO organizations are non profit organizations, and they are a charity, so they require monetary donations from businesses and people around the world. By advertising, and spreading the idea of this organizations, and what horrible disease they are trying to prevent, we can get donations from people to this organization, and informing people about this pandemic and making them aware. It's a domino effect, and they will tell they're friends, and so on.
 * 1. What is the specific topic your group decided to focus on? **
 * 2. Which organization did you choose to focus on and why?**
 * 4.** **What are some of the things you like about their program?**
 * 5. How do you plan to become involved with this organization or model your action plan after it?**