At our AIDS Family Health Center, the WWO Academy and orphanages where we provide orphans with medical services, we now have perfect water and for HIV-infected orphans this is paramount. We are not seeing as many skin infections and already our diarrheal disease has almost disappeared. Our partnership has provided clean drinking water to hundreds of children who otherwise would be exposed to numerable diseases and conditions due to the public lack of properly treated water.

—Dr. Jane Aronson: Founder and CEO of WorldWide Orphans

 
In 2009, when a child's right began exploring options for expanding operations into Ethiopia, WorldWide Orphans (WWO) was one of the very first groups we approached. Although our first impressions were solid, we could never have guessed at that time what an important and supportive partner they would eventually become. WWO – through both their international leadership and their very capable Country Director, Dr. Sophie Mengistu – has helped acr in nearly every way imaginable, from help with importing equipment to providing staff members to volunteer their time. 
 
WWO Ethiopia is a model, to us, for how well an integrated system of services can work. In 2004, WWO began to treat orphans living with HIV/AIDS with the anti-retroviral medicines that save their lives. Since then, WWO went on to establish a Family Health Clinic which treats children from orphanages (in Addis Ababa) and adults (from the sub-city of Yeka). Referrals are made from the Family Health Center to the WWO Academy, a private school for orphans, and vulnerable community children, with and without HIV/AIDS. One grade level is being added each year (with approximately 72 children in three classes). The Academy provides an excellent, free education for orphans and vulnerable children and is ground-breaking in its approach.
 
acr considers it a profound privilege to work alongside WWO in providing water to the over 350 children in their care. On top of this, there are approximately 1,550 patients who visit the WWO clinic per year who have access to safe drinking water during their stay. As it is with most acr partners, the truly heavy lifting is done by WWO. a child's right is glad to be able to lighten that load by easing their minds about the safety and quality of the drinking water.

Through the provision of clean drinking water, a child’s right helps to sustain the lives of the children residing in the orphanages and surrounding communities, and helps provide them with access to one of life’s essential components: water. In all aspects of our partnership, a child’s right has conducted itself ethically and soundly and has treated all equally, with dignity and respect. Support of the work that A Child’s Right does with WWO is critical to the lives of these children. Given all this, we support and recommend a child’s right and its programs.
 

—Dr. Jane Aronson: Founder and CEO of WorldWide Orphans