 The SOS Children's Village Gulu in Northern Uganda, in partnership with several organisations, recently went all out to create awareness of HIV/AIDS (June 2007). More... In a country where one in five children are said to be orphaned, the numbers and impact are so vast that sometimes it is hard to imagine that those numbers actually represent children. Three teachers at the SOS Hermann Gmeiner Primary School Bindura comment about what this means to them.
More... 17-year-old Adama goes to the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School Bakoteh in Gambia, a country where 69% of the population live below the poverty line. She breaks the culture of silence surrounding HIV/AIDS. Read her poem.
More... Madeleine and Paul are among the beneficiaries of the SOS Children's Villages family strengthening programme in Rwanda. Both are coping with the difficulties of life without their spouses, who died from AIDS. Their stories are compelling examples of the positive effects SOS family strengthening programmes are having in sub-Saharan Africa.
More... "My husband died of AIDS in 1995. A few days before, I was diagnosed with HIV and everything has changed in my life". This is how Claire started the conversation, with a smile which hardly hid her suffering.
More... At age eighteen, Georgio* is the head of his family. The responsibilities and challenges as head of a household are a heavy burden to place on any teenager; however, this situation is found with terrifying regularity across Mozambique.
More... Below are examples of HIV/AIDS programmes and activities in Zimbabwe, India, South Africa and Botswana. The programmes in these countries are representative of SOS Children's Villages' global outreach in helping children and families deal effectively with this epidemic.
More... 15 million children across the world have lost one or both of their parents as a result of AIDS. The President of SOS Children's Villages Helmut Kutin is truly committed to ensuring that children in Africa have a better life: "The scale of the AIDS pandemic is shocking. It is unimaginable. That is precisely why we owe it to each and every one of the million AIDS orphans to help them with all our strength where we can. We must not close our eyes to this misery." More... Zanana may be only 26 years old, but she has already learned more about life than some people many years older. Zanana is HIV-positive, out of work, and shunned by others around her. Despite this, she is embracing life as a volunteer counsellor at the SOS Social Centre in Mthatha, South Africa, which operates from the local SOS Children's Village. "For me, being HIV-positive and living a positive life go hand in hand," she said.
More...SINDI was orphaned when she was just four years of age, after her mother died of AIDS. That was seven years ago. Like so many other AIDS orphans in Southern Africa, Sindi and her five siblings found a new home with their grandmother (or "Gogo").
More...SOS Children's Village Swaziland comes to the aid of a family of ten. Two of the family members are dying of AIDS and need medical treatment, but there is no money, even for food.
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