SAMMAMISH, Wash. - Princess Zulu dutifully fills up a kit with cotton balls, Vaseline and antifungal cream, a simple topical treatment that could have saved her mother's life.

"She was dying of AIDS in 1993 and the thing she needed was antifungal cream," said Zulu.

Zulu could not get the cream for her mother in time.

Now an AIDS activist, Zulu, originally from Zambia, is helping others throughout the world living with the disease.

She's teamed up with World Vision and the Pine Lake Covenent Church in Sammamish to provide kits to AIDS patient caregivers in Africa.

"To me it's been amazing to see how I was never able to deliver that one tube of antifungal cream to my mother and to see so many Americans come together," she said.

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Princess Zulu, left, helps assemble AIDS caregiver kits at Pine Lake Covenant Church.

The church's gym is now a mini factory, with dozen's of volunteers working in an assembly-line fashion to put together 6,500 kits.

"In these boxes are care kits that are going to go to caregivers in Zambia who are going to travel… village-to-village, hut to hut," said

Each kit contains all the essentials, cotton balls, pain relievers, ball point pins.  There is even a message: "Don't Give Up, We're Here for You."

"It's something each caregiver needs, just to be encouraged, to know someone cares," said Zulu.

The situation in Zulu's home country is dire.

World vision says the prevalence of aids in Zambia is among the highest in the world, and throughout Africa more than 12 million children under the age of 18 have lost a parent to HIV or AIDS.

Volunteers are hoping what they're doing will make someone's life over there a little easier.

More than $200,000 is being raised for the effort.