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Monitor writer Scott Baldauf and photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman explain why they decided to profile these two families who have taken in AIDS orphans.
A spiritual perspective
How can we help African children orphaned by AIDS?
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The Monitor starts 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. ( Continue )
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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.
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09.26.07
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.
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09.26.07
Olga and Pontsho Monamodi added six children to their family after Olga's sister and aunt both died.
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