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Orphans and the world at large

Losing a parent is undoubtedly a traumatic experience for any child. It is an experience that will follow that child, likely playing a larg...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Getting back to our "did you know " series due to popular demand !!

Did you know ?
That an estimated 132 million children ranging from newborns to age 17 have lost one or both parents (UNICEF).

 Every 2.2 seconds a child loses a parent somewhere in the world.

  Every day 5,760 more children in the world become orphans.

  By 2015 it is projected that there will be 400 million orphaned children worldwide.


  HIV/AIDS alone has orphaned 14.9 million children, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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