AN OVERVIEW

“There has to be a Her­culean effort made for these kids so we don’t lose them. Oth­er­wise… you will have a soci­ety where kids haven’t been to school and there­fore can’t ful­fill even basic jobs… a soci­ety where a large pro­por­tion can have anti-social instincts because their lives have been so hard. You have a gen­er­a­tion of chil­dren who will be more vul­ner­a­ble to exploita­tion and to dis­ease because they won’t have the same sense of self-worth.” Stephen Lewis, UN Spe­cial Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Source: Africa Recov­ery (Oct. 2001) “AIDS Orphans: Fac­ing Africa’s ‘silent crisis”’

 

Prac­ti­cal Solu­tions That Build A Tomor­row For Africa’s Children

Cur­rent Facts About The Sit­u­a­tion in Africa:

Root issues cre­at­ing African orphans include:

• Cholera and/ or Dysen­tery killing par­ents due to lack of clean water sources. (both kill in 3 days)

• Death dur­ing child­birth and from malar­ia due to the great dis­tance that must be trav­elled to receive med­ical assis­tance. (both kill in 3–7 days)

• Lack of edu­ca­tion and job oppor­tu­ni­ties con­tribut­ing to ram­pant pover­ty and dis­ease. (under 5 mor­tal­i­ty rate-130/1000 live births)

• AIDS killing large por­tions of the pop­u­la­tion.  (Unicef 2010 stats: esti­mat­ed 99,000 chil­dren under age 15 have AIDS)***

Objec­tives:

1. EXPAND our vil­lage out­reach mod­el for orphan and wid­ow res­cue and reha­bil­i­ta­tion to a 3rd coun­ty in 2012, to con­tin­ue cut­ting the root caus­es per­pet­u­at­ing the orphan prob­lem in this region.

2. Pro­vide vital edu­ca­tion and job skills for under­priv­i­leged and orphaned chil­dren through mul­ti-lev­el schools.

3. Expand our tech­ni­cal jobs train­ing to include car­pen­try, brick lay­ing, and goat husbandry.

4. Expand our new­ly formed goat breed­ing pro­gram to assist our orphans in becom­ing finan­cial­ly self-sustaining.

5. Church plant­i­ng in all major vil­lages where these orphans live. Pro­vid­ing spir­i­tu­al train­ing, sports pro­grams, women’s sup­port groups for the wid­ows car­ing for the orphans, as well as prac­ti­cal hygiene teach­ing for the orphans.

6. Teach our orphan out­reach mod­el to mis­sion­ar­ies in oth­er rur­al parts of Africa.

These objec­tives can be reached with your help through the 5 real-world steps out­lined here.

*** UNICEF — MOZAMBIQUE  STATISTICS

www.unicef.org/infobycountry/mozambique