A multi-sectoral well-resourced network of civil society and government agencies capable of implementing diverse effective sustainable programmes for children affected by HIV/AIDS.

CINDI was founded in July 1996 as it became clear that new collaborative initiatives to strengthen the capacity of communities to cope and to reduce the stigma of AIDS would be necessary if the needs of an increasing number of children affected by the epidemic were to be met.

 

As a collection of independent initiatives, CINDI Members retain individual character, flexibility and the ability to respond to individual children, but are strengthened and guided by their link to the Network.

 

Their aim is to identify and help children in distress. The scale of the epidemic and the poverty surrounding it is overwhelming. Yet the innovative elements of CINDI’s work are important guides to the challenge of serving affected children, in a manner that is acceptable to communities and sustainable for all the years it will take to raise the orphan generation.