OneChild Africa

ICRI is the fiscal sponsor of OneChild Africa. OneChild Africa is dedicated to the well-being of children made vulnerable by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The group was formed by Stanford faculty, students, and alumni as a part of the International Initiative at Stanford University. Dr. Brent Solvason, the group’s leader and founder, invited ICRI to provide technical expertise and organizational support. ICRI’s Board of Directors then agreed to take on full fiscal sponsorship of OneChild Africa, to support this important initiative which works to:

Raise awareness locally and nationally of the crisis for vulnerable children evolving in Sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and worldwide recession.

Develop educational programs for middle school, high school, undergraduate, and medical students in the US and southern Africa to help them understand the devastating effects of the AIDS pandemic on children’s wellbeing in Africa.

Develop better care practices for vulnerable children, through the use of reliable assessments of children’s well-being in the present; the use of biological measures to assess the brain development of children who have endured grief, trauma, and neglect; and the utilization of this data to better predict and respond to longer term outcomes as these children grow to adulthood.

To learn more, please visit www.onechildafrica.org.