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There are many children on
treatment at Machava.
Long distance adoptions provide them with
medical treatment,
nutritional supplements,
home care assistance and support.
It is not enough
to give the mothers the drugs for their children's treatment, the children
need to be looked after also at home and they require a regular
nutritional supplement.
Furthermore, long
distance adoptions will enable to assure legal registration for all the
children. In fact, many African children are not registered at birth due
to the high costs of the procedure. No registration means no existence and
no rights: that is why legal registration is guaranteed to every child who
enters the long distance adoption program.
All expenses for school tuition fees and any further school expenses (for
school material, books, uniforms) are covered by the adoption program,
just like any other necessity the child may have, like clothes, for
instance.
The people who initiated and are in charge of the long distance adoption
program belong to the association "Mulheres
para o DREAM", activist women fighting against AIDS.
Every Thursday at the Machava Centre they meet mothers who have come for
their children's medical check-up. They speak to them, listen to their
problems or questions, see the children and ask about their medical
situation.
The activists also visit the adopted children at home. And as soon as the
door opens, a party-time begins!
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Many parents
of the children under treatment also ask to "be adopted" for
their medical treatment, a treatment accessible now to everyone in
rich countries, and which is too often denied in Africa. DREAM really is a
dream: it gives new life to grown-ups and children.
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