This year, thanks to you - our loyal supporters, we have been able to reach out to even more vulnerable HIV+ children, adolescents and pregnant women. With your donations we can have an even bigger impact on the lives of vulnerable HIV+ children in 2016. 

In 2015 we have been working to reduce transmission to zero through:

• Community outreaches - we have worked in 5 of the most at risk communities around Lusaka through 22 outreaches to not only test 5,247 individuals for HIV but to provide wider community awareness, sensitisation and reduce stigma and discrimination which still widely exists in urban dense, poverty stricken communities in Lusaka. 
• Tiny Tim & Friends Clinic - we have been working with 828 patients over the course of the year to improve; adherence rates of our HIV+ patients; improve our patients general health and wellbeing; and monitor individuals lab results to ensure children aren't failing treatment. 
• Counselling - For HIV+ children and teenagers, indepth counselling is essential to ensure they are dealing with their diagnosis  in a positive way, recieveing treatment, adhereing to their medication and are talking about social issues they are facing within the community. In 2015 we held 6,781 counselling sessions, working to improve children's lives. 
• Prevention of Mother to Child transmission - we have continued our mission of reducing transmission to zero by supporting 58 mothers through our PMTCT programme and ensuring no child is born HIV+.
• Working in the heart of the community - by working with community volunteers  we can reach out to individuals who would otherwise be unknown to TTF. Our community volunteers have supported us this year by; identifying 90 at risk vulnerable individuals in the community in need of testing; undertaking an intense follow up programme with over 140 individuals who were missing their medical appointments; supporting us to ensure that everyone we tested as HIV+ on outreach (105 people) are enrolled into a clinical facility. 

​None of this work would be possible without the support of our donors, so thank you to everyone who helped our work this year - we wish you a Happy New year and an amazing 2016. We hope you will donate to our work to for 2016 and change children's lives. . 
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Sometimes you try your hardest to make a change in a child's life and are unsuccessful - but when you are successful that is definitely worth celebrating and sharing with the world! 

Many of you may remember Everson, a 13 year old child who was brought to us last year suffering with extreme malnutrition, neglect, and a variety of other health issues. His story stuck with the staff at Tiny Tim & Friends due to the fact that when he arrived at our Clinic many of our staff prepared themselves for the worst. We worked hard with our partners at Our Ladies Hospice, to provide him emergency palliative care,  found him a stable safe home at MacDonalds Farm, and have continued to treat him over the past 18 months to make sure he can lead a healthy, productive life. 
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Last week our social work team went to visit him at the Farm, to see how he was doing, and whilst he was showing them his vegetable garden he has been cultivating he said he would like to go back to Our Ladies Hospice, to thank the staff who helped him to recover over a year ago.

This week we went with Everson back to Our Ladies Hospice for an incredibly emotional and rewarding visit. None of this would have been possible if it wasn't for the hard work and dedication of the staff at Our Ladies Hospice; the nurturing environment and safe home he has at MacDonalds Farm; and  all of the TTF donors and supporters who enabled us  to provide 4 months of intensive palliative care and medical treatment at the TTF Clinic. 

So we want to share with you in this celebration and as a picture can say a thousand words - here are just some from our day: 

Thank you to everyone who made this transformation possible - we are eternally grateful for your support and donations - without working in partnership none of this would have been possible!

​THANK YOU!