143 million orphans worldwide
27 Apr 2009 by FXB USA
Tags: My Experience with Orphans
Started in 2004, African Orphan Outreach works in Kenya to help address the AIDS orphan crisis, which has left nearly 1.7 million Kenyan children orphaned.
With the mission of bringing love, hope and care to orphaned children in East Africa, AOO has helped [...]
WASHINGTON — Largely because of the AIDS crisis, nearly one-quarter of all children in Zimbabwe are orphans, a figure that approaches historic levels set in Rwanda after the genocide in 1994, according to a new national survey.
The study, specialists said, shows the accelerating devastation of families in a region that has the highest HIV-prevalence figures [...]