Death of an orphan!
It happened on Friday 18th of August 2006. One of the orphans I had met just the weekend before who was so engrossed in a camera phone that we had a great time pushing faces into the screen.
I mentioned here a few posts ago that this news was such a shock, well Thursday 17th he was playing but came home complaining of a bad stomach and then he had Diarrhea quite badly. His gaurdians gave some herbal remedy and it seemed to calm his stomoach. The problem was that the gaurdians didn't have enough money to take him to the clinic, which with HIV is so important to do. So the next morning (Friday) the man went out to see if he could get a loan from some of his contacts and when he returned the same day found his young orphan dead at home.
How sad that this young life already struggling with the Aids virus, then can't get the desperate help he needed because the money was not there.....look at the faces at the top of this blog, he was a child like these, in fact these boys were his freinds....
If you want to help inject support into this kind of thing, let me encourage you to give towards the work of Lihop, the agency working with these amazing children... thank you Julie for your gift it will reach them this week and go towards the premises that forms the 1st chapter in Lihop having a complete centre to love and support these children and their adult HIV gaurdians...
If anyone would like to give then email me at the liveafrica email.....
I mentioned here a few posts ago that this news was such a shock, well Thursday 17th he was playing but came home complaining of a bad stomach and then he had Diarrhea quite badly. His gaurdians gave some herbal remedy and it seemed to calm his stomoach. The problem was that the gaurdians didn't have enough money to take him to the clinic, which with HIV is so important to do. So the next morning (Friday) the man went out to see if he could get a loan from some of his contacts and when he returned the same day found his young orphan dead at home.
How sad that this young life already struggling with the Aids virus, then can't get the desperate help he needed because the money was not there.....look at the faces at the top of this blog, he was a child like these, in fact these boys were his freinds....
If you want to help inject support into this kind of thing, let me encourage you to give towards the work of Lihop, the agency working with these amazing children... thank you Julie for your gift it will reach them this week and go towards the premises that forms the 1st chapter in Lihop having a complete centre to love and support these children and their adult HIV gaurdians...
If anyone would like to give then email me at the liveafrica email.....
posted by Andrew at 7:27 pm
1 Comments:
A very sad story indeed. And not isolated at all. I will be praying for the work of Lihop and I am sending you a private email to find out more about how I can help
-Raymond
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