BBC article: Watching Mum Die of AIDS The article linked above, from the BBC, talks about a young girl whose mother died of AIDS. It is a situation repeated over and over again among the children we are working with here in Durban. Please pray that God would intervene and protect them.

We are finding more and more orphans who are not in school because they can’t pay the school fees, or they can’t afford a uniform, or they don’t have their ID’s or birth certificates. Pretty hard stuff to accomplish when you’re nine years old. Yesterday, took Sbonelo and nFanafuthi, orphans from the Sea Cow Lake [...]

Today we had soccer practice at one of our after-school programs. The field is about 1/2 mile from the school, so the boys run in a line behind me along the road, then down a dirt trail, jump over a muddy creek, cross another road, in between some shacks, across another creek, and onto the [...]

Today I got a call from Morgan. Since their mother died when he was 12, Morgan has been living alone with his two younger brothers in a squatter camp teeming with a population of over 100,00 people. Together they have literally begged, borrowed and stolen to survive. They have learned to be resourceful, while at [...]

More than 25 years into the global AIDS crisis, the epidemic continues to worsen in almost every statistical category. Many on the frontlines are beginning to rethink their approach, with the growing realization that children are the key in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Children orphaned and/or impoverished by AIDS are being driven into the same [...]