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Bursary for HIV-hit kids
Mon, Dec 01, 2008
The Straits Times

By Ang Yiying

AN EDUCATION bursary fund to help children or teenagers who are infected by HIV or who has one or more HIV-positive parent was launched on World Aids Day on Monday.

Starting with a seed funding of $50,000 contributed by M.A.C. Cosmetics, the One Life Fund by World Vision here aims to eventually build it up to $300,000 to provide 300 bursaries.

This is believed to be the first fund of of its kind in Singapore.

 

 

 


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