Orphan Support Africa Receives Grant to Care for Children Orphaned by HIV/AIDS

NEW YORK — Orphan Support Africa has received a $2.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help local community groups that provide critical care to some of the world’s most vulnerable children in Malawi and southern Tanzania.

Especially in the last decade, both countries have experienced sharp increases in the number of orphans: Malawi will soon shoulder caring for the health and psychosocial needs of over one million orphans, nearly half of whom have been orphaned as a direct result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

To read the full press release, visit the Orphan Support Africa Web site.