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| | BYUMBA, RWANDA. Claudine is holding her sister Mukanyanowi, age 4. Claudine blushes and laughs when asked if she would like to marry one day. "Who would want to care for all these children?" she asks. In Rwanda, girls must have a paternal uncle negotiate the marriage arrangements with the boy's family. Claudine's last uncle died in March of 1997. Children who lost their parents in the genocide are slowly losing the members of their small circle of remaining relatives to diseases such as AIDS, malaria, etc. An estimated 65,000 child-headed households exist in Rwanda today -- the legacy of the 1994 genocide that left 1 million people dead. Jeanette and Claudine are two 15-year-olds left to care for their respective siblings after their parents died. Their fathers died during the war; their mothers of illness several years later -- leaving their children destitute. World Vision is providing practical care and support to these children. Photo by Karen Homer, 1998. |
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| | CONSTANTA, ROMANIA. Dr. Sexton, a DDS from the Denver, Colorado area, took a team of 22 dentists, dental technicians, and assistants, to Constanta. They worked on teeth of children with HIV/AIDS. The clinic was located in the Municipal Hospital for infectious cases. Venera Botescu, Constanta Zonal Manager, arranged for about 180 HIV/AIDS infected children, from very poor homes and some residing in the institution, to have their teeth checked, cleaned, filled, crowned and extracted. Dr. Sexton and three other dentists, including one of the two U.S. specialists on dental work for HIV patients, worked on these children for one week. They brought with them donated equipment and supplies, including stations and tables for eight teams to work on patients. They spent the first day setting up the equipment, which included adding two flourescent lights in the ceiling and adding plumbing lines for the equipment. Six of the stations were set up in one room, with another room being used to sterilize the equipment and tools. The work done by the team was incredible, and blessed many children. The children were terrified and would cry upon entering the room. At times all the children would be crying. This could be heard by those children in the waiting area, increasing their fear about entering the room. The dental team members were experienced in working with kids. Not being able to speak to them in their language, they would still speak softly to them, hold them, rock them, hold their hands, and rub their brow. If a child was crying uncontrollably, they would let the child sit up and rest for awhile. The children would often cry even after they had received the local anesthetic. Some of the children would return the next day to tell them it wasn't so bad and to thank them for making them feel better. They had to pull many teeth as they were so badly decayed. They did many crowns, but couldn't do root canals because there were no x-ray machines. Several of the children were bleeders and had to have blood transfusions. Photo by Ruth McClure/World Vision. |
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| | Romania. Dr. Sexton, DDS from Denver Colorado area, took a team of 22 dentists, dental technicians, and assistants, to Constanta, Romania to work on the children's teeth with HIV/AIDS. The clinic was located in the Municipal Hospital for infectious cases. Venera Botescu, Constanta Zonal Mgr., arranged for about 180 HIV/AIDS infected children from very poor homes and some residing in the institution to have their teeth checked, cleaned, filled, crowned and extracted. Dr. Sexton, 3 other dentists, including one of the to US specialists on dental work on HIV patients, worked on these children for one week. They brought with them donated equipment and supplies, including stations and tables for 8 teams to work on patients. They spent the first day setting up the equipment, which included adding 2 flourescent lights in the ceiling and adding plumbing lines for the equipment. Six of the stations were set up in 1 room, with another room being used to sterilize the equipment and tools. The work done by the team was incredible, and blessed many children. The children were terrified and would cry upon entering the room. At times all the children would be crying. This could be heard by those children in the waiting area, increasing their fear to enter the room. The dental team members were experienced in working with kids. Not being able to speak to them in their language, they would still speak softly to them, hold them, rock them, hold their hands, and rub their brow. If a child was crying uncontrollably, they would let the child sit up and rest for awhile. The children would often cry even after they had received the local antesthetic. Some of the children would return the next day to tell them it wasn't so bad to thank them for making them feel better. They had to pull many teeth as they were so badly decayed. They did many crowns, but couldn't do root canals as no xray machines. Several of the children were bleeders and had to have blood transfusions. Photo by Ruth McClure/Wiorld Vision. |
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| | Romania. A child swings upside down at the playground. Dr. Sexton, DDS from Denver Colorado area, took a team of 22 dentists, dental technicians, and assistants, to Constanta, Romania to work on the children's teeth with HIV/AIDS. The clinic was located in the Municipal Hospital for infectious cases. Venera Botescu, Constanta Zonal Mgr., arranged for about 180 HIV/AIDS infected children from very poor homes and some residing in the institution to have their teeth checked, cleaned, filled, crowned and extracted. Dr. Sexton, 3 other dentists, including one of the to US specialists on dental work on HIV patients, worked on these children for one week. They brought with them donated equipment and supplies, including stations and tables for 8 teams to work on patients. They spent the first day setting up the equipment, which included adding 2 flourescent lights in the ceiling and adding plumbing lines for the equipment. Six of the stations were set up in 1 room, with another room being used to sterilize the equipment and tools. The work done by the team was incredible, and blessed many children. The children were terrified and would cry upon entering the room. At times all the children would be crying. This could be heard by those children in the waiting area, increasing their fear to enter the room. The dental team members were experienced in working with kids. Not being able to speak to them in their language, they would still speak softly to them, hold them, rock them, hold their hands, and rub their brow. If a child was crying uncontrollably, they would let the child sit up and rest for awhile. The children would often cry even after they had received the local antesthetic. Some of the children would return the next day to tell them it wasn't so bad to thank them for making them feel better. They had to pull many teeth as they were so badly decayed. They did many crowns, but couldn't do root canals as no xray machines. Several of the children were bleeders and had to have blood transfusions. Photo by Ruth McClure/World Vision. |
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| | Tanzania. A group of children in Kagera, Rushwa ward, one of the areas which is greatly affected by AIDS. It is estimated that one of every five people is an orphan. Older children have to take care of the little ones, and the majority of them are not attending school due to an inability to pay the expenses involved. A World Vision Tanzania staff member, Imelda, who has been living positively with AIDS for the last 15 years, has devoted most of her time in educating people - especially the young ones - on the hazard of the diseases. As a counselor, she has managed to form a club which brings together AIDS-positive people to discuss how they will fight against the spread of the disease. Imelda provides counseling services to the orphans, widows, and people living with AIDS. Photo by Peter Mwakabwale/World Vision. |
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| | Tanzania. This is Kamuhabwa with his family, inside their small house. His parents left him with a now 3 year old child. Wage labour is the only means which allows an 18 year old boy, Kamuhabwa, to take care of his three brothers and two sisters. Both their parents died three years ago from AIDS. Kamuhabwa has to search for work with his sister. Another brother works as a herder, for which he is paid only TSH 2000/= (approx. US $3) per month. World Vision Tanzania staff have been touched by the condition of these children in Rushwa, to the exent of dedicating part of their monthly salaries to their support. Photo by Peter Mwakabwale/World Vision. |
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| | Tanzania. Helen stands with her two brothers. Helen, 12, works as a laborer on other people's farms, in order to make sure she survives with her two brothers. Helen is an orphan; both her parents died due to the AIDS epidemic. World Vision Staff have been sponsoring Rushwa, the are where Helen lives, through dedication of their salary every month. The money sent Rushwa aims at helping other orphans who live like Helen. Photo by Peter Mwakabwale/World Vision . |
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| | India. Dr. Punitha with Aruna and her mother Rekha. Both daughter and mother are HIV positive. Here, one can see the multiple tumours on Aruna's head, face, and ears. During Mother Teresa's memorial service, Dean Hirsch the President of World Vision International, suggested that a suitable project be initiated in India to honour Mother Theresa. The Chennai Integrated HIV/AIDS Care project was started on March 1, 1999. The focus of this project is mainly on destitute women who are HIV positive. This is a drop-in centre where medical advice and treatment is given to women who can move around. Counselling and health advice is provided to the patients and to people in the neighborhood. Photo by Satyarthi Sahu/World Vision. |
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| | Uganda. Yulita, 6, Robert's sister, is leaning against the wall at home. She studies in a day care center next to their home. Seven year old Robert, of Kitasiba village- 202 kilometres south of Kampala, aspires to be a Catholic father. His survival depends on external help. Robert, an orphan, and his four sisters, are being raised by a 71 year old, weak, sickly, widow who has lost two sons and four daughters out of her ten children. They live in Rakai district in southern Uganda, a region devastated by AIDS. Photo by Simon Peter Esaku/World Vision. |
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| | Uganda. Bernard fetches water with the bicycle, provided just days earlier by World Vision. He is very enthusiastic about it, and has made great plans for it. The holistic responses to the problem of AIDS orphans in Rakai, Uganda (200kms south of Kampala) has been nominated by EARO as its best practice for 1999. This story focuses on one family which has been left without parents, and a teacher in their school - himself a former orphan and beneficiary of World Vision's work in Rakai. The school benefited from World Vision's classroom construction programme. Photo by Nigel Marsh/World Vision. |
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