LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. — To provide HIV prevention, education, physical care and psychosocial support for young people in Namibia, United Nations Federal Credit Union recently donated $20,000 to the Sekolo Projects Inc., a secondary school teacher training project.

Although the national adult HIV infection rate in Namibia has stabilized at around 19%, the crisis of orphans and vulnerable children continues to grow, according to the $2.6 billion credit union. Some households with less than $85 in annual income have children that make up the secondary epidemic following HIV infection in a country facing economic devastation and an average life expectancy of 34 by 2010, according to the United Nations.

Launched in 2004, Sekolo works with the Namibian Ministry of Education to support teachers in their HIV prevention efforts and with community-based programs that provide services to orphans and vulnerable children affected by the AIDS epidemic. More than 920 teachers at 564 schools in Namibia have participated in a HIV education training curriculum.