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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-06-03 07:47 AM
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Mozambique struggles to feed Aids orphans
For months, 13-year-old Percilia wandered the streets of Maputo, surviving off scraps of food she begged from strangers or salvaged from garbage cans.

Like thousands of other children here, Percilia and her sister, about seven-years-old, were left to fend for themselves when their parents and older sister died of Aids-related complications two years ago.

Percilia -- whose last name has been withheld -- and her sister were among the lucky few Aids orphans. Staff at one of the country's 40 orphanages found them in the streets and took them in. They are fed with the help of the World Food Programme.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23106

I wonder how an American GOP Christian sleeps at night knowing their policy and forced cut in African Planned Parent Hood aid has made millions of AIDS children. 'I make you suffer because I suffer from my tormented sick mind', said Rat Robertson.
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