To provide necessary medicines and food within a controlled environment to a targeted group of HIV positive children and mothers in order to ensure a quality of life consistent with their healthy peers and surroundings; the first priority is to the children.

Services Mai Tam House of Hope (“the center”) started its activities in 2005 to protect orphans, children, and widows infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS by providing lifesaving medicines, food, housing, and medical and social and psychological welfare care, as well as educational and income-generating opportunities.

As the only facility of its kind in Ho Chi Minh City, the center has dramatically expanded its services to meet the needs of this vulnerable and underserved population. The center started with 5 orphans in 2005 and currently serves some 460 children and widows infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS at the center and in the community.