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African orphan  Due to poverty and HIV/AIDS there are many African Orphans.  The average age in some African countries is 16 years old because so many adults are dying from HIV/AIDS.  There are African Orphans as young as 8 or 10 years old that are trying to care for their younger brothers and sisters.  Below is a letter written by Hope for Children Center's administrator about an African Minister that died of HIV/AIDS.

Mr. Richard was a church elder in a local Seventh-day Adventist Church.  He and his wife were blessed with seven children. He contracted the AIDS virus through a blood transfusion way back in 1996. Then he unknowingly infected his wife. They both died last year in March. Mr. Richard left behind seven children, seven more African Orphans.
The local church tried to support the family but due to abject poverty in Africa they could not continue with the support. The firstborn boy, aged sixteen, came to me and narrated his story. He wanted us to accept even two of his siblings into the Centre. At the age of sixteen he had become the sole breadwinner for his six siblings. It was too much for him. Unfortunately, we could not accept them into the Hope for Children Center orphanage because of our financial capabilities.
Sadly enough, I read in one of the local newspapers just last month that the boy was shot dead by police officers in an exchange of fire during a bank robbery in Nairobi. I went to their home to confirm what I had read, thinking that the names could be similar. I met his thirteen-year-old sister who is his follower. She told me that her brother resorted to robbery in order to feed them. In fact, he was lured into it and that was his first attempt.
The boy is already buried and so in the family, the girl is now the sole breadwinner. We visited them last week while on missionary outreach with our orphans and took for them
some little food. This is what she told us, which is just painful to me, “Pastor, I am very tired and hopeless, I have nowhere I can get food for our children.  The future is completely dark for me.  My siblings will soon die of starvation.  The only option I have is to look for somebody who can marry me if he is promising to care for my siblings. It has
to be soon, or else they’ll all die.”
On hearing this some of our orphans, especially girls, I saw tears in their eyes. Painful indeed! Imagine a thirteen-year-old girl child being a breadwinner, getting married as young as she is. It is painful. Such a marriage is unlawful but what can one do. I have saved several girls out of such evil marriages and some of the girls I saved are now sponsored and are here in the orphanage.
If I discourage her, where will I take her to? How shall her siblings feed? I want to save her but I just don’t know how, due to lack of funds.
This story is more than a year old but there are so many more African orphans in need.            (See the full article in Spotlight on Orphans Extra #4)

 


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