Adjumani Palliative Care Fund

For the last three months, our counselor has been walking a journey of healing with Gladys, a south sudanese refugee single mother of three children who has been living with HIV/AIDs for the last 10 years. Despite counseling from the hospital and being enrolled in ARVs, Gladys has since been living in denial, a situation that caused alot of stress on her children too since she often refused to take ARVs questioning why she has to keep taking drugs when she is fine. The children had to constantly beg her to take the medication.

For our counseling jpourney with Gladys, its been three months of constant home visits, creating an environment for her to talk and share her experiences. The journey has not been easy but with prayers, Gladys was able to reach to terms with her sitaution. While this initially brough back the memories of the rape back in south sudan and how that ended her hopes of raising her three children aged  10, 15 and 17 years, continued talking and enabling Gladys share the pain has eventually yielded results. 

According to one of her daughters ''Mummy now takes her ARVs on her own even without being reminded. We no lonmger have to beg her to take her medicines. We thank God for this change. Atleast we are now less stressed because we know that she will now be able to live longer when she adheres to her medication'.

This testimony of Gladys would not be possible without your love, compassion and sacrifices. Thank you for the kind donations taht is enabling us reach many more women living with HIV/AIDs and who have lost hope in life.

We are forever grateful for you generosity

David + Vicky