BRIGHTER FUTURE INTERNATIONAL TRUST
Registered Charity 1110823
© 2018 Brighter Future International Trust
Brighter Future's
Prem Nivas Children's Home
FOR ORPHANS WITH HIV
Prem Nivas (loving home) provides comprehensive care
and education for almost 40 orphaned children with HIV.
We find these children when our team visits local villages. They
are also brought to us from village leaders or members of the
community who find them living rough in the jungle.
When they first come to us, the children are often extremely
malnourished with HIV-related infections. The amazing thing is
that with a couple of months of care, good food and of course
medication, the children make a wonderful recovery.
Sadly it takes a lot longer for them to heal emotionally. These
children have suffered the horrors of watching parents die, and
have often been the sole carer for their dying mum. If this wasn’t
bad enough, the young children have faced rejection from
remaining family members because of HIV. Grief-stricken and
alone, they have to fend for themselves which is virtually
impossible because of sickness.
Brighter Future offers these children their first
experience of living in a stable, nurturing environment
with regular meals and medical care.
Why is prem nivas children’s Home vital?
As a parent, we want the best for our children. We
want to give them love, care, positive experiences,
opportunities, and of course an excellent education.
We’d like them to have all the things that we had as
a child, and more besides. Our aim is to give them
the skills for the best possible future.
For people with leprosy, the story is very different. Can
you imagine how you would feel if you were so poor and
hungry that you had to make your child work in a field
rather than in a classroom? What if the only way you could
feed your baby was to send another of your children out to
beg, wondering if they are safe as you are not there to
protect them?
Survival is your priority, not school or your
children’s future, even though you know that
without education you are condemning them to
the same fate as you.
Prem Nivas children with their teacher
UK Registered Charity 1110823