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Our
Patrons
Children With AIDS
Charity is pleased to be able to confirm a distinguished list of
individuals who have pledged their support in furthering the aims and
objectives of the charity. CWAC takes this opportunity to thank them
for their encouragement and involvement to date.
"As
a patron of CWAC I am very aware of the tremendously important work of
the charity. I speak from experience. As a result of AIDS, I have lost
my own daughter Rebecca, a founder member of CWAC, and granddaughter
Bonnie."
 Helena Best
"Perhaps
it is because I have young children of my own, that the suffering and
loss of so many young lives to such a cruel illness, is so poignant for
me. I am pleased to be able to support a charity which does so much to
help alleviate the practical day to day problems which many of these
children and families endure."
Annabel Croft
"A
charity for children with AIDS is of tremendous importance. One of the
problems for children who develop AIDS as a result of HIV infection is
that their parents are often very sick and many of them die. Therefore,
the children not only have to face the stress of their own illnesses
but also bereavement as a result of the loss of their parents and have
to cope during their parent's serious illness. I wish the charity every
success."
 Prof. David Harvey FRCP
Professor of Paediatrics - Neonatal Medicine Hammersmith Hospital
"We
are supporting CWAC because it offers practical help for AIDS affected
children and their families. Small grants to help affected families,
education in schools to enable children to lead a normal life, the
chance for families to have a respite break. CWAC can provide the
difference between determination and despair. Please join us in
supporting this vital and worthwhile cause."
  Maureen Lipman
"CWAC
makes it easier for the families to be together and not waste precious
time."  Marguerite Littman, Founder -AIDS Crisis Trust
"The heartrending
stories convinced me I should do whatever I could, however small." 
Stanley Metcalfe,
Chairman - Queen's Moat House
"Paediatric
HIV infection is now known as the newest chronic disease in childhood.
While it has many similarities to other chronic childhood conditions,
AIDS in children is unique in that the parents and children are afraid
to disclose their diagnosis for fear of the reprisals. In most other
chronic childhood conditions, people rally around and offer sympathy.
Not so with paediatric AIDS. There remains a need for public
information and education, to enable families and children living with
HIV to lead more normal lives. This is a vital role for CWAC."
Dr. Jacqueline Y.Q Mok MD
FRCP
"It
is utterly tragic when a child has a terminal illness - and of course
doubly tragic when that illness is shared by other members of the
family. You would expect that we as a community would immediately
gather round the family and give them every support. In fact, when the
illness is AIDS many of us respond with shock and horror, so the family
is forced to keep their illness secret. CWAC aims to destroy the taboo
and provide the support these families so desperately need. It is a
privilege for us to be associated with their work and we wish them
every success."
  Esther Rantzen OBE CBE
"Such a worthy children's charity deserves support by the healthy and fortunate. It is for this reason that we were delighted to participate."
 Peter de Savary, International Entrepreneurial Businessman
George Michael issues a statement
of support for CWAC for World AIDS Day
"This is my tenth year as patron of Children With
AIDS Charity (CWAC) and I am pleased to support their
work, especially around this time of year as World
AIDS Day (1st Dec) approaches. CWAC is one of the
key players in the development and provision of services
for children in the
UK
living with HIV and AIDS: they also offer the only
hardship project specifically for children.
CWAC helps children in numerous ways: they provide
grants for basic items such as school uniforms, winter
clothes, a phone bill, or it might be a washing machine
for a hard pressed mum with a newborn baby that makes
all the difference.
They also provide day trips and summer breaks
for kids as well as providing assistance towards the
cost of much needed family holidays. On a more basic
level they’ll help with transport when it comes
to getting children and their families to hospital,
or having medicines brought to those too ill to travel.
CWAC also promote awareness on sexual health issues
as well as stigma, discrimination and self-respect
within schools, communities and youth centres.
I hope that you will, like me, continue to support
this important and very relevant charity in the continuing
battle against the poverty, discrimination and misunderstanding
that HIV/AIDS can still cause amongst young people."
 
George Michael
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Terry
Waite CBE 