Community Based program for
HIV/AIDS Patients and their
Families is giving services to 3 districts in the province of Khon Kaen namely: Manchakhiri, Prayun, and Ban Haed.  The program provides services to 116 families and classified as follows:

• 176 adults
• 7 children
• 118 orphans

Realities in these 3 districts are:

• The ages of the patients ranges from 6 years old to 33 years old
• Most patients have worked in Bangkok as construction workers
• There are those that are gay, hospitality workers and drug addicts
• Men are mostly the carrier and they transmitted the disease to the women
• Orphans are being taken cared of by the grandparents

Activities:

• Regular home visitation to every patients
• Giving counseling to patients or to members of the family
• Organized seminar for the villagers and students regarding the issue of HIV/AIDS, the causes and prevention (5 times a year)
• Supplementary Income Generating Project to 16 families on catfish raising, frog raising, crickets raising and picture molding
• Provided educational assistance to 7 orphaned children
• Supplementary feeding to 37 patients who are either children and/or sickly parents
• Socialization for all the patients and their families with the objective of getting together to have a close contact with one another that they be a means of support to each other.  200 joined in the Christmas and New Year Party Celebration where blankets and goodies were distributed as gifts.
• Seminar for the HIV/AIDS patients on self-care and value formation (2 times)
• Referrals to the hospital and other institutions
• Coordinating to other NGO’s and GO’s