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The American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA) is a non-profit organization providing critical comprehensive services to infected and affected HIV+ children and their caregivers. Our programs are efficient, promoting self-reliance and sustainability. Since 2005, in collaboration with our in-country partners, we have served tens of thousands of families in some of the most underserved and marginalized communities in Africa. Our areas of impact include: medical support, livelihoods, educational support and emergency relief. Currently, AFCA is transforming lives in Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Southern AIDS Coalition promotes accessible and high quality systems of HIV and STD prevention, care, treatment and housing throughout the South. We envision the South a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, people living with HIV, regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic circumstance, or geographical location, have access to high-quality, life-extending care free from stigma and discrimination.

One Heart Source, founded by university students at UCLA, grew out of the need to help vulnerable orphans and street children due to HIV/AIDS. One Heart Source is breaking the cycle of poverty and disease through social and economic support and education for communities hardest hit by the epidemic, especially for orphans and street children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS.

1. CHAP educates the public about HIV disease, its impact upon individuals and the community, and current treatments;2. CHAP coordinates the efforts of existing public or private resources for persons living with HIV/AIDS;3. CHAP works to discover unmet needs of persons with HIV/AIDS and their families;4. CHAP stimulates and supports appropriate community responses to meet those needs.

ASD currently operates four Special Care Facilities licensed by the Texas Department of Health: The Ewing Center, Revlon Apartments, Hillcrest House, and Spencer Gardens. ASD serves an average of 175 men, women and children in 152 total bedrooms within 125 privately configured units. Seventy-six percent (76%) of the agency's resident population are racial or ethnic minorities, 24 percent were women. One hundred percent (100%) of the people served by ASD are significantly below the federal poverty line and are classified either as low- or very-low income. The agency has provided more than 326,000 person/nights of housing to more than 1,100 individuals and family members living with AIDS. Along with a home and a mutually supportive community environment, residents at each facility are provided with a range of services individually tailored to empower them to cope with the cyclical impact HIV/AIDS has on people who are living with a disease that often compromises their complete independence.

Food For Thought's mission is to foster health and healing with food and compassion.

The Lazarus House: a center for wellness is a 501(c)(3)  non-profit dedicated to decreasing and limiting muscle loss/wasting, also known as 'cachexia',  associated with chronic illness such as cancer, HIV, stroke, spinal cord injury/disease through a low or NO cost service of wellness, nutrition, and support in a non-clinical environment.

Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers was founded in 1979 to raise and train capuchin monkeys to provide daily in-home assistance to people living with spinal cord injuries or other mobility impairments. We are the only organization in the world that has trained capuchin monkeys to be service animals. Helping Hands learned that these little animals delivered more than just a willing set of nimble hands to their recipients. The monkeys provided companionship, joy, and the renewed sense of purpose that comes from taking responsibility for the health and well-being of another creature. Our mission is to provide: outstanding, ongoing support for our current recipients and their monkey helpers; a safe, healthy, fulfilling environment for post-service monkeys for the rest of their lives