Children With AIDS Charity

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."

"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

"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

"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
(Statement issued in support of CWAC for World AIDS Day 2010)

Terry Waite CBE