09.26.07
Social workers in short supply in South Africa
At the Roodepoort Child Welfare Society, their caseload has risen from between 60 and 80 a year to well over 1,000.
Monitor writer Scott Baldauf and photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman explain why they decided to profile these two families who have taken in AIDS orphans.
How can we help African children orphaned by AIDS?
The Monitor continues an occasional series profiling two South African couples who opened their hearts and stretched their resources to give AIDS orphans a family. The Monamodis, who had two children already, found space in their four-room home for six cousins who lost their mothers to AIDS. The Selomas, an older couple whose only son was killed several years ago, took an almost unheard-of step in South Africa and volunteered to be foster parents to an orphaned boy. Now, they hope his sister will eventually be allowed to join him.
Gift started kindergarten this year, but misses his sister who was taken away in a custody dispute.
Thabang Thimbela's foster parents struggle to guide him and his foster sister Bulelwa through the temptations of adolescence.
Ever since their 21-year-old son was killed six years ago, Celina Seloma told her husband, Pule, that she wanted a child in their lives.
Olga and Pontsho Monamodi added six children to their family after Olga's sister and aunt both died.
09.26.07
At the Roodepoort Child Welfare Society, their caseload has risen from between 60 and 80 a year to well over 1,000.
Jean Paul Samputu lost his family during the genocide in Rwanda. But he overcame rage and resentment by learning to forgive – even for his father's killer.
Doing Good
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Colorado native Colin Flahive sits at the bar of Salvador’s Coffee House in Kunming, the capital of China’s southwestern Yunnan Province.
Jean Paul Samputu practices forgiveness – even for his father's killer
Award-winning musician Jean Paul Samputu lost his family during the genocide in Rwanda. But he overcame rage and resentment by learning to forgive.
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