Children of AIDS : Africa's orphan crisis / Emma Guest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guest, Emma, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orphans--Services for--Africa.

Orphans.

Children of AIDS patients--Services for--Africa.

Children of AIDS patients.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects--Africa.

AIDS (Disease).

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

Children of AIDS patients--Services for.

Orphans--Services for.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xviii, 176 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second, new edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press ; Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of Natal Press, 2003.

Summary:

This new, fully updated edition of Emma Guest's acclaimed book 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. 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:

Section I Families

1 Mbuya's Story: A Grandmother's Story, Lusaka, Zambia 17

2 Extended Families: An Aunt's Story, Kampala, Uganda 28

3 Strangers Step In The Tale of Two Foster Parents, South Africa 41

Section II Projects

4 Childcare by Committee: A Social Worker's Story, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 57

5 Hope in the Hills: 'Cluster Fostering' in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 71

6 Institutionalised: An Orphanage in Cape Town, South Africa 85

7 A Hundred Dollars for a Bull: A Social Worker's Story, Luweero District, Uganda 97

Section III International Involvement

8 Foreign Aid or Interference? United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Lusaka, Zambia 113

Section IV Children Alone

9 A Mother to Her Brothers: A Child-headed Household's Story, Johannesburg, South Africa 131

10 Falling Through the Net: A Street Child's Story, Lusaka, Zambia 144.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-168) and index.

ISBN:

0745320767

0745320759

086980992X

OCLC:

52070711