Artists for Charity is a nonprofit organization founded on the belief that all people, regardless of place of birth, sex, or current medical condition, are entitled to certain basic rights, especially education and healthcare. In Ethiopia, Artists for Charity has translated its mission into action by focusing its efforts on the care of HIV positive children who have lost both parents to AIDS.

The Artists for Charity Children's Home was created to provide care for HIV positive orphans until the age of 18 or graduation from high school. Because the Children's Home is intended to care for those children who have no other alternatives, the children that come to the Home are usually those who have been disqualified from entering other institutions by factors such as age and health status. The Children's Home provides excellent services for these children, including the necessities of life such as shelter, food, and clothing, and also ensures that the children are enrolled in school, have regular doctor visits, take medicine, and engage in other extracurricular activities. The Children's Home is intentionally small to closely resemble the family unit, and focus is placed on the holistic development of the children (mental and social as well as physical). Currently the Artists for Charity Children's Home cares for 16 HIV positive double orphans (having lost both parents to AIDS).

For more information about the foundation, the children's home, and the children please go to http://www.artistsforcharity.org