Caring for Orphan Children in Zimbabwe

Photos by Richard Lord

A New World Outlook web feature for World AIDS Day.

Chirpo Makowi looking at a booklet with orphans at table

Harare, Zimbabwe: "I don't know who their parents are," says Chirpo Makowi Fandera. She cares for 25 children in her home, six of her own and 19 "dumped" kids. "The police bring them here, the welfare office brings them here." When the police or the Harare social welfare office pulls kids off the street, they try to find people like Fandera who will care for them.

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Photo © 2005 Richard Lord. Used by Permission. Rights not transferable.

See Also

By the Grace of God: The Orphans of Zimbabwe by Christie R. House, New World Outlook, November/December 2005
HIV/AIDS Program in Mursan, India, photos by Paul Jeffrey.
HIV/AIDS Program in Mursan, India by Reidun Refsdal, New World Outlook, Special issue on HIV/AIDS March/April 2005
New World Outlook, Special issue on HIV/AIDS March/April 2005

Audio Resources

Richard Lord interviews Shamiso Mangongo, an administrative assistant with the Orphans and Vulnerable Children project of Africa University
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Richard Lord interviews two Zimbabwean boys who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS. They get up at four a.m. to farm and do other work and then they walk to school returning about six p.m.
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