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- EIN 05-0581165
- 2915 Rainier Ave S Apt 215 Seattle WA 98144-6042 USA
- www.DOLFILMS.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Film & Video, Fund Raising & Fund Distribution, Humanities, Media & Communications
Mission: The Orphan Bracelet Campaign emerged after making of documentary film, Angels in the Dust. The film?s director, Louise Hogarth, directly experienced the poverty; unemployment and heartbreak of HIV/AIDS affected women and orphaned children in South Africa. The Campaign is both a public awareness and revenue generating project that helps women affected by HIV/AIDS and children orphaned by this epidemic. It is estimated that only two years from now in 2010, twenty-five million children will be orphaned around the world, their parents succumbing to the AIDS epidemic. This growing number of orphans is overwhelming local communities, churches and hospitals in Africa and around the world. There are one million AIDS orphans in South Africa. These children need our help, as do the women infected by HIV/AIDS who are struggling in poverty to take care of themselves and their children.
Programs: The Orphan Bracelet Campaign (OBC) is one local community answer to these problems. OBC provides employment to 80 woman crafters, living with HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. One of the hardest hit areas with a 70% unemployment rate and thousands of orphaned children.