Special Offering Giving Opportunities

ECO #862706
AIDS Crisis Overseas
Gifts to this account support a broad range of projects throughout the world, primarily church and community based projects such as home-based care for people who are sick with AIDS, prevention education, and training pastors to be well versed in the spiritual and emotional care of people living with HIV. In giving to this account, you give us the ability to respond quickly to needs as they arise.

ECO #051674
AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Africa
Because the needs of orphans and their caregivers (often a grandparent or an older sibling) are so desperate, this ECO has been established as a separate ECO. Gifts to this account go specifically to projects working with children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS to help provide their basic needs including food, clothing, education, and medical care. Through the ECO people who work to care for the orphans are also trained in ways to best support these children.

ECO #051700
Home-Based Care Kits in Africa
Family members struggle daily to care for a loved one with AIDS without even the barest necessities in the home. The message of Christian concern and compassion offered with each home visit will accompany and go beyond this provision of supplies in the Home-Based Care Kits. Funds will go to provide congregation initiated home-based care programs.

ECO #051702
AIDS Prevention
Recent research in Uganda shows that abstinence and being faithful messages and activities are important tools to stop the spread of AIDS in Africa. Funds are needed to develop and disseminate more of these African-generated solutions that demonstrate the unique contribution that Presbyterian church partners in Africa can make to prevent AIDS. Contributions will fund innovative prevention programs and provide seminars and education materials to launch successful campaigns.

ECO #051701
AIDS - Mother-to-Child Transmission Prevention
In Sub-Saharan Africa over 90 percent of HIV infections in young children are from mother-to-child transmission. A woman desperate for an intervention to protect her unborn child is even more desperate to keep her suspected HIV/AIDS status a secret. Gifts to this account will be used to develop programs to educate women about MTCT prevention as well as voluntary counseling and testing and Niverapine intervention. Donations will support mother-to-child transmission programs in Christian hospitals and congregation-based programs in Democratic republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.

ECO #051656
AIDS Consultant in Central and West Africa
Caryl Weinberg, RN

ECO #051673
AIDS Consultant in Southern Africa
Rev Janet Guyer

ECO #051770
AIDS Consultants in East Africa
Dorothy Hanson, RN

Gifts to these three accounts help support the work of PC(USA) mission personnel as they work to be a caring presence, providing support and expertise as they walk with our partner churches that are struggling with the AIDS crisis and become more involved with AIDS work. These accounts provide the working budget for the consultants.