Helping AIDS Orphans and Street Children in India

[Guest guest]

Dear eFORUM Members,

I run a small non-profit that helps orphans and street

children around the world. We have ten partners in Uganda,

Kenya, Thailand and Vietnam who run the gamut from

micro-grant programs for guardians of orphans to homes for

former street children, child sponsorship programs, and a

medical mission in the heart of the Nairobi slums.

We tend to focus on smaller programs that would fall

below the scope of the UNICEFs and World Vision's of the

world, but which are run from the heart and where a little

money will make a big difference in the lives of the children.

Once we've identified a program that is doing wonderful work

with orphans or street children, we try to raise funding for

whichever projects they need most. There are no promises,

but we raised between $500 and $5,000 for most of our

partners last year. You can check out our current partners

at our web site, http://www.allforyouth.org.

We plan to expand into India this October. Can anyone

recommend some Indian organizations doing wonderful work

helping orphans and/or street children where a small amount

of money would make a dramatic difference in the lives of

the children they are caring for?

Our preliminary plans are to focus on the states of

Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

However, if we can get a $500 Air India pass that allows us

to fly anywhere in India for two weeks, we will probably

visit some other areas. Thank you for your help!

Joanna Conti,

President

Alliance for Youth Achievement, Inc.

jconti@...

1-303-526-5219