According to the Minister of Health of Liberia, Dr. Peter Coleman, and Dr. Isabelle Simbay, head of the National Aids Control Program (NACP), over 100,000 Liberians have currently tested positive for HIV. The infected patients were primarily between ages 15-29. The report also indicated that there was a 20 percent increase over a two-month period.

NASH’s approach to education brings together families, communities and local governments to strengthen early childhood development and basic education for children. Our efforts address the needs particular to marginalized populations such as girls, ethnic minorities, and children affected by HIV/AIDS, wars and other catastrophes. NASH’s fight against HIV/AIDS relies on a continuum of care for children and their families: prevention, ongoing care, and treatment. Community involvement and ownership is at the core of our efforts to identify and change beliefs and behaviors that spread the disease and to develop the skills and knowledge for affected communities to cope.

NASH^s innovative programs, depending on the individual^s needs, will provide tuition, uniforms, shoes, textbooks, supplies, bags, and bus fare to help children from destitute families stay in school. NASH^s extra-curricular activities help students to develop their social and leadership skills.

NASH will also provide support for AIDS-affected children and conducts HIV/AIDS prevention education for other diseases as well as works hard to improve access to clean water and sanitation by improving latrines, building water containers, and arranging electric pumps for communities in remote areas.

NASH’s education programs are designed to bring about sustainable improvements in the health status of children, families and communities, with special attention given to the needs of women and children.

We believe that education should start at the family unit level. We also believe in the importance of taking "a holistic approach" in educating our youth and adults with universal quality education in order to succeed and compete in the global economy.