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   |  | . Charles is the portrait of a loving son, respectful and caring in his actions and demeanor. He calls Joyce mother. But Joyce is not Charles’ mother. She’s his aunt. Last year, when Joyce’s sister died, Charles became part of a new family with Joyce and another orphan she cares for, four-year old Timothe. In this Zambian community of Zamtan, 225 miles northwest of the capital, Lusaka, blended families are the norm. HIV/AIDS has created nearly 1,000 orphans who have moved into new families, many headed by mothers and grandmothers. For these new families, life is hard. There are meager resources and high levels of unemployment. The men of Zamtan worked as miners in Zambia’s highly volatile copper market. Other men worked for the now-defunct Zambia-Tanzania (Zamtan) Road Company that brought fuel to the Copper belt mining area from Tanzania. A new fuel pipeline left the drivers jobless. Joyce is a widow. She lost her husband ten years ago in a car accident. Now she has two mouths to feed, no job, and poor health. She survives as a subsistence farmer, growing maize and grain. Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | | |||||||||||||||||
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