基本説明
Explores how the AIDS crisis has devastated the world's poorest continent, with millions of orphans.
Full Description
This is the new, fully updated, first paperback edition of Emma Guest's acclaimed book that explores how the AIDS crisis has devastated the world's poorest continent, and shows how families, charities and governments are responding to the next wave of the crisis - millions of orphans.
Based on extensive interviews, Guest lets people tell their own stories in their own words. The result is a moving and disturbing account of the experiences of orphans, street children, grandparents, aunts, foster parents, charity and social workers and foreign donors across South Africa, Zambia and Uganda.
Contents
Preface to First edition
Preface to New Edition
Introduction
Section I: Families
1. Mbuya's Story
A Grandmother's Story, Lusaka, Zambia
2. Extending Families
An Aunt's Story, Kampala, Uganda
3. Strangers Step In
The Tale of Two Foster Parents, South Africa
Section II: Projects
4. Childcare by Committee
A Social Worker's Story, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
5. Hope in the Hills
'Cluster Fostering' in Rorual KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
6. Institutionalised
An Orphanage in Cape Town, South Africa
7. A Hundred Dollars for a Bull
A Social Worker's Story, Luweero District, Uganda
Section III: International Involvement
8. Foreign Aid or Interference?
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Lusaka, Zambia
Section IV: Children Alone
9. A Mother to her Brothers
A Child-headed household's story, Johannesburg, South Africa
10. Falling through the Net
A Street Child's Story, Lusaka, Zambia
Conclusion
Notes
List of organisations
Index
