Annual Report This little Kenya guy attends school, eats well and has HOPE, thanks to AFCA. Those are good reasons to smile.

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1 Annual Report 2016 This little Kenya guy attends school, eats well and has HOPE, thanks to AFCA. Those are good reasons to smile.

2 PARTNERS Tandala Hospital Tandala, Democratic Republic of Congo Elikya Center Gemena, Democratic Republic of Congo St. Mary s Mission Hospitals Elementita and Nairobi, Kenya Community Based Health Care Mombasa, Kenya Ramula Dispensary Ramula, Kenya Restoring Hopes Ministries Miwani, Kenya Baylor Uganda Kampala, Uganda Kibiio Hospital Kibiito, Uganda Holy Innocents Hospital Soroti, Uganda Cooley Clinic, Papoli, Uganda Morning Star Matopos, Zimbabwe Family Harvest Village Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Sandra Jones Centre Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Vacation With a Purpose Team Leader, Tara Fisher teaching English in Matopos, Zimbabwe Board of s William Garbarino President Alkarim Manji Treasurer Jen Panattoni Secretary Nicholas Cassino Michael Kracht Executive, Tanya Weaver, with little Tania from Zimbabwe. His family received training, goats and seeds to help them on the road to selfsufficiency. Shelina Dilgir Stephanie Watkins Anne Parmer

3 Medical Supplies Medicine Many clinics and hospitals in rural Sub-Saharan Africa do not have the basic supplies to decently and effectively care for patients. The weakened immune systems of HIV+ children make them susceptible to ordinary viruses and infections as well as rare ones. These OIs can throw a child almost overnight into full-blown AIDS and hasten their death. AFCA supplies prophylactic medicines such as anti-malarial drugs and antibiotics to prevent infections as well as multivitamins for semaking sure the nurse verely malnourished patients, writes down his data chemotherapy medicines, antiperfectly! fungal medicines for oral thrush, and many needed drugs. Every child born HIV+ acquires the disease from their mother who is already infected. AFCA is providing two levels of support. The first level is to prevent infection of babies during pregnancy, childbirth and breast feeding. The second level is to prevent HIV+ children from becoming orphans by providing medical treatment for their parents. Nutritional Support AFCA sends new, sterilized supplies and used, but good medical equipment to be used in hospitals and clinics in our target areas. This allows rural hospitals and clinics to build capacity and to give patients better care, with the tools doctors and surgeons desperately need. Truck loaded in USA, left. And, above, unloading container in Uganda. AFCA provides beds, mattress and sheets, along with a huge list of other medical supplies and equipment. AFCA acquires easily digestible fortified cereal and delivers it to our partners in Zimbabwe and Kenya, where drought and civil unrest have damaged crops. This cereal, when taken with the drugs we send, create a complete medicine for children and guardians who would otherwise have no food with which to take the powerful drugs. AFCA provides seeds and agricultural training so that local crops can be harvested and produced. These veggies and fruit help cash-poor guardians feed the children in their care. Enjoying porridge in Kenya Greenhouse in Mombasa, Kenya

4 Livelihoods Programs In Zimbabwe, Uganda and Congo, AFCA provides goats, chickens, rabbits, veterinary kits, training, and transportation for Livelihoods Programs which teach children and their guardians how to raise animals and how to become self-reliant. These programs are essential to children who have no other means of survival the animals become school fees, food, rent, and medicine when they are sold or bartered. AFCA also supports the training of vet-techs who are entrusted with caring for animals in the LP. When not helping the children in our programs, they are able to use their new skills to provide for their own families by helping others in their communities who need a veterinarian. Vet kits are provided for the first year of a program. James loves school! This young girl was given 3 pregnant goats. Here, she holds the first kid born to her flock. She is on her way to becoming self sufficient! School Fees AFCA provides school fees, desks, solar lights and educational supplies to children in Mombasa, and Miwani, Kenya. These kids now have a chance of learning and graduating. They take education quite seriously, with the knowledge that it will help them with a future job and that it is the only way to Blessing goes to school! Trainings In Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe, AFCA teaches young girls and women to make reusable feminine pads. This keeps girls in school and provides an income for families. AFCA also supports the training of vet-techs so they can help communities and families care for the livestock they ve been given. AFCA funds the training of families in husbandry and gardening so they can become selfsufficient, earning money so their children and families can eat well and stay in school. Sewing training in Zimbabwe where girls learned to make feminine products

5 Financial Statement Revenue Contributions $ 382,939 Gifts in Kind 2,014,837 Grants 29,600 Interest 112 Net Assets Released from Restrictions 0 Total Revenue 2,427,488 Expenses Program Commodity Distribution 2,005,325 Support Services Fund Raising 90,164 Administration 51,319 Total Expenses 2,146,808 Change in Unrestricted Net Assets 343,977 Net assets at beginning of the year 356,678 Net assets at end of the year $ 637,358 Another year has passed and we have much to celebrate. Look at what we did in 2016: This year, we shipped $1,652,818 worth of medical, office and school supplies to our partner clinics, filling specific requests such as a hospital beds, incubators, and baby warmers. We provided an entire year of third-line ARV medicine to 5 children who would not survive without it as well as medicine to an additional 10,476 children. We continued to fund a multiplication center with animals to be given to orphaned families in Congo while expanding the livestock project to a new area of the country; we funded a new livestock/seeds project for 60 families in Uganda; we started a new goat multiplication center in Zimbabwe; we built a second chicken coop (1000 layers) in Zimbabwe; we funded and help manage a sisal project in Kenya so HIV+ mothers can work; two volunteer teams did sewing training in Zimbabwe and painted a school and orphanage and also built a playground and added to the housing for volunteers. 76 children went to school with fees, uniforms and books paid for. WHEW! We ve been busy! It is our honor and privilege to serve the kids in our programs but we look forward to the day when AIDS doesn t exist and when children are not affected by this virus. Thank you for allowing us to do what we do, through your generosity. On behalf of the children, Tanya Weaver Executive 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.