Events

Throughout the year ASOD requests institutions / organizations and individuals to participate in Good Samaritan Event by contributing resources towards Support for orphans and other vulnerable children who are suffering from the silent enemy who kills (HIV/AIDS). In Kampala – Uganda where the infection rate is 10.2 percent, this deadly disease infects 12 out of 100 people and the World statistics show that over 42 million people have so far been infected by HIV, 2/3 of them are in Africa. While targeting the rich and poor, intellectuals and illiterates, youth and newborn children.

1. To help the Local communities to stand up and fight HIV/AIDS.
2. To help people who have been infected by the HIV Virus to accept their situation and live positively with HIV/AIDS.
3. To encourage both healthy and infected people to join hands as Goods Samaritans to care for people in our midst who suffer from the consequences of HIV/AIDS epidemic.

1. Babies infected by HIV; whose growth will be retarded and they will die at an early age.
2. Orphans who are left without parents at ages 10 and 11, and first-born children caring for their younger brothers and sisters.
3. Students who are knocking on doors asking for money to go home, to their families in the village to die there.
4. Young widows infected by their husbands. They are facing death and at the same time struggling with their last strength to keep their children from ending up on the streets after they are gone.
5. Old grandmothers who pray to God to help them live long enough to raise their grand children, as they are the only adults left in their families.