The Holy Cross Children’s Trust
The sole purpose of the Holy Cross Children’s Trust is to provide consistent, meaningful and long term support to children in a rural area in South Africa who:
- have AIDS or are HIV positive
- have become orphans through AIDS, or
- are the child head of a family.
Specifically, the Charity provides funding for a range of programmes and projects developed by Sister Pricilla Dlamini. These programmes currently support some 2,500 orphaned children and 1,000 child headed families in a 50 square kilometre, rural area surrounding The Holy Cross Hospice in Emoyeni, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa . The incidence of AIDS/HIV in this area is amongst the highest in the world and the region has been declared an Aids Pandemic Disaster Zone.
The Charity is focused on providing targeted support for the children in this area. In doing so, we believe we can make a dramatic impact on the lives of the children in this community. Donors can be assured that their contributions make a real difference.
The Trustees are not paid and virtually all other services used by the Trust are either given at no cost or at the personal expense of the individual Trustee. As a consequence, all funds raised flow virtually entirely through to support the programmes for the ultimate beneficiaries – the children.
The Holy Cross Children’s Trust was formed on 20th of November 2002 and was granted charitable status by the Charities Commissioner for England and Wales on 24th of January 2003 (Registration number 1095593).
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