Crusaid Hardship Fund for individuals living with HIV and AIDS
Directing individual pieces of highly-targeted financial assistance to people living in poverty with HIV and AIDS.
Making a real and lasting difference.
Crusaid’s Hardship Fund makes two types of grants.
The Fund:
- awards carefully targeted funding through professional advocacy and welfare bodies to support individuals living with HIV and AIDS and in extreme levels of poverty in the most appropriate way.
- supports professionals within the HIV sector to ensure the limited funds available target and improve the root problems surrounding a persons HIV related poverty.
Funds are currently supported through a contracted partnership agreement on a three year basis with Elton John AIDS Foundation and the MAC AIDS Fund.
Crusaid’s Hardship Fund does not provide people with an income or long-term palliative care. It directs individual pieces of highly-targeted financial assistance to people living in poverty with HIV and AIDS where it can make a real and lasting difference to their situation.
Hardship Fund grants might be made to cover the cost of:
- A fridge to keep medication in
- A washing machine for someone suffering from night sweats
- An increased gas bill for someone experiencing HIV-related pneumonia
- Respite care for children whilst their carer is in hospital
- To ensure that the funds are used to lift people from the poverty trap and onto a more stable platform from which to manage their health, every application to Crusaid’s Hardship Fund is made in association with a professional social worker who provides a full needs-based assessment.
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