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Summary: The Association François-Xavier
Bagnoud has made children affected
and orphaned by AIDS its special
focus.
The Association François-Xavier Bagnoud is an organisation
whose main focus is helping children in jeopardy due to disease
and poverty. It offers humanitarian assistance and aims to
develop anti-poverty initiatives focusing on the child but also
aiming to empower the extended family and the community in the
process. They operate through regional programmes of work
based around the following: humanitarian action, palliative care,
medical research and training, as well as health and human rights
advocacy. AFXB has made children affected and orphaned by
AIDS its special focus with its main campaign located at
http://orphans.fxb.org/indexeng.html.
The site is currently hosting an on-line petiton
- the First Global Civil Society Petition for AIDS Orphans. It is
hoped that support from this petition will encourage government
and business to react and confirm support for the rights of
children orphaned through HIV/AIDS-related illness.
It is hoped that the petition will support AIDS orphans through:
- informing public opinion;
- alerting governments, the media, the business world and
governmental and non-governmental organizations to the extent
of the HIV/AIDSscourge;
- creating structures that respond to the basic needs of these
children; structures that do not have to be orphanages, but
which serve as active support for the host families and the
communities affected;
- applying their [the orphans'] rights, as defined in the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The website is also developing an on-line database relating to
Aids Orphans Assistance. This global resource will act as a tool to
help people and groups assisting orphans and other vulnerable
children to find, learn about and contact one another. The
database incorporates local, national and international
organisations from developing and industrialized countries.
Association François-Xavier Bagnoud aim to launch this website in
early 2001.