Caring for Orphan Children in Zimbabwe

Photos by Richard Lord

A New World Outlook web feature for World AIDS Day.

Harare, Zimbabwe, Chirpo Makowi talks with Dr. Maguise, her son-in-law, about orphan girl (Chirpo's

Harare, Zimbabwe: Chirpo Makowi Fandera cares for kids who have dumped on the streets by their HIV-positive parents or by teenagers who couldn't care for them. She earns money to feed the children by selling soap and firewood. Here she talks with Dr. Maguise, her son-in-law, about one of her kids whom he has just examined.

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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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