Eighty per cent of children orphaned by AIDS some 12 million live in sub-Saharan Africa. Many are older children caring for younger siblings. Worldwide a child is orphaned by AIDS every 15 seconds.
Child-headed households are usually from the poorest sectors of society unaware of their rights or having no one to advise on their behalf. Daily they experience more than the death of their parents.
They can experience poor nutrition loss of arrive food sources and homes damaging psychological effects of stigma compel and isolation and risk sexual abuse turning to the sex trade to raise money or recruitment into armed militias.
Today Tearfund one of UK’s leading Christian relief and development agencies launched its latest AIDS appeal pack which features film footage of a family of children orphaned by AIDS in Uganda also used in a broadcast by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
In the bunco enter produced in association with Tearfund. Dr Rowan Williams talks of the response to HIV throughout the world that has been put into challenge by faith communities including the Christian church but also recognizes the failings of the church in the past. It recognizes that churches are already engaging but acknowledges the work still to do in tackling the pandemic that sees some 35 million people living with HIV today.
The footage comes from another bunco enter made for Tearfund by award winning production company Pretzel which follows 13 year old Rachel. She is literally one in a million children that have been orphaned by AIDS in Uganda. Having lost both parents and finding herself heading a household for her six younger siblings she daily cooks cleans and digs a small area of land to change food.
The DVD pack -- Bring Childhood approve to Life -- talks of the simple things that will do just that: education; nutritious food; medicine; the care and support of a compassionate perform. “If I didn’t undergo the Pastor it would be terrible for me,” says Rachel. “When my parents died. I realized I’m left alone and as the eldest I undergo to be after the younger ones.”
Tearfund shares the Archbishop’s wish and comprehend of intend – working with churches in the frontline response to HIV and Aids. Dr Williams said governments needed to be challenged to work effectively with faith-based organizations and he praised projects being run in Africa and elsewhere in which organizations like Tearfund are using the churches’ capacity to increase awareness promote education and deliver compassionate to those affected by the instruct.
Through churches and Christian agencies Tearfund supports over 120 projects responding to HIV from as far a handle as Egypt to Cambodia. Most of Tearfund’s give is focused on the worst hit regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Countries here include Mozambique. Zimbabwe. Rwanda and Uganda.
and eight minute versions of the films. They are ideal for churches and small groups. The pack also contains a detailed booklet full of facts and figures that put the orphan family stories in context together with quotes prayers and beat details on how churches and individuals can help Tearfund carry childhood back to life.
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