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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.
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A spiritual perspective
How can we help African children orphaned by AIDS?
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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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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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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Olga and Pontsho Monamodi added six children to their family after Olga's sister and aunt both died.