SERVING THE ABANDONED FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS

Umesh was very sick when he was brought to ACCEPT. As part of the legal procedures, we asked the family members whether they would like to have the dead body in case he died. And their reply was, “You do what ever you want”. This is the case of many who come to ACCEPT. In this place, many people found a home; they were accepted and treated well without any discrimination till their death.
ACCEPT was started as a small response to the plight of HIV/AIDS infected and affected people. We started with 5 patients and now we cater to average 70 patients every month through our in patient and out patient facilities. We now have 35 bed capacity. The overall number of HIV+ people benefited from our service is more than 900 and plus their family members. As many patients are brought in the last stage we have seen 180 deaths also.
Some dying parents handed over their children to us and asking us to take care of them. This motivated us to open the children’s home and now we have 15 children who are HIV/AIDS orphans. So many children are living longer and learning to walk in the ways of God.
HIV patients easily get infected with TB. When many care centres didn’t take HIV/TB patients, we opened a special ward for such patients.
Some patients come from difficult backgrounds and we have rehabilitated some of them by providing jobs in ACCEPT and other places. We give them regular
psychological and spiritual counseling. We also conducted a marriage of two positive believers.
We want to thank God for the staff team for their tireless labors and  many volunteers who came and helped us in different ways.
We also want to thank God for all the prayer supporters and financial supporters.