Mission Statement

We make a difference by saving vulnerable children's lives, providing for healing and lasting hope in African communities devastated by poverty and AIDS, one community at a time.

We accomplish this through the administering of emergent medical care and providing for ongoing sources for food, fresh water, shelter, and medical assistance. We implement personal and community development programs that educate and empower a healthy sustenance.

 
Our History

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What We Are Doing to Make a Difference

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  • We help communities devastated by AIDS by approaching the problem from several fronts: health, education, economic, social, spiritual, psychological, and cultural.
  • We teach about HIV/AIDS on every trip. We send teams to African countries every year and form partnerships with organizations in Africa with a history of integrity.
  • We ARE MAKING a difference.  
  • We are funding the building of 2 new schools - one in Tanzania and one in Zambia.
  • We have sent countless shipments of medical supplies and arranged medical outreach trips to desperate areas in need of our help. 
  • We provide meals to children. We supported one lunch meal per week for 900+ school children in rural Erasmus, and we support the crèche/ preschool for 86 vulnerable children/orphans in rural Lethabong.
  • We dig water wells (called bore holes in Africa).
  • We update medical clinics such as Ohaji Medical Center in Nigeria. Over the past three years we have refurbished the doctor's quarters and provided necessary repairs to the latrines, general painting of the medical center, roof and window repairs, ceiling and concrete floor repairs, and window nets to protect against mosquitoes.
  • We have sent multiple packages of medical supplies, blankets, robes and medicines.
  • We arranged for donated computers to be sent to the Tshwaraganang Primary School computer center and library.
  • Our reach extends across many countries including Zambia, Nigeria, Tanzania and South Africa.
  • We created the Starfish program to help children with unique medical needs - Justice Amadi is our first "Starfish" - he is a young burn victim from Nigeria receiving treatment at Shriner's Hospital in Cincinnati.
 
Aid Africa's Children, Inc - Leadership Team

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Board of Directors

Beverly Seiffert
Deborah Gilliam
Diane Malege
LuAnn Wing
Rebecca Schwuchow

Officers

President: Deborah Gilliam
Secretary: Beverly Seiffert
Treasurer: Diane Malege

VP Fundraising: Kim Clark
VP Marketing/Public Relations: LuAnn Wing

VP of Missions: Rebecca Schwuchow
 
VP of Marketing Communications - Dave Raymond

Assistant Secretary –Stephanie Shane

Webmaster: Jeff Seiffert
General Counsel: Alan Lyons

Advisory Board Members

Anne Meisner, CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America
Christina Ksoll, Managing Director of The Private Bank
Dr. James Simms III, of Lake County Health Dept, Waukegan

 

 

 
Our Supporters

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