AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed [Paperback]

Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 12, 2007

Every 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is formed

The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, often four or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family. In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households. Imagine watching your mother and father slowly die before your eyes, leaving you to bury them and then to raise and care for your younger brothers and sisters. AIDS Orphans Rising takes you through the daily lives of these children.

What do they eat?

Where do they live?

How do they survive?

What can I do to help?

Each chapter provides weblinks to organizations working with these children as well as real solutions, actions that you can take now to help these children not only survive, but succeed.

By 2010, there will be 25,000,000 AIDS orphans! Left alone, they will be uneducated, disenfranchised, and unwanted: ripe candidates for radicalization and exploitation by dictators and terrorists. If good people like yourself do not reach out to these children so they can get love, an education and set up in some profitable enterprise, civilization will deteriorate to a point that you will not even recognize it.

"This book is an inspiring gem of human caring for human. Particularly, the last chapter is beautiful and inspiring. It is very clearly written, and for the ordinary reader, and yet it is a fully documented scholarly work." -Bob Rich, PhD, author Cancer: A Personal Challenge

100% of all profits from this book will go to help the Child Headed Households

For more info: www.AIDSOrphansRising.org

Published by Loving Healing Press
www.LovingHealing.com

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Loving Healing Press; 1st edition (December 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932690476
• ISBN-13: 978-1932690477
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,488,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sr. Mary Elizabeth Lloyd has been helping the orphans and the Child Headed Households of the missions of the Religious Teachers Filippini for the past 12 years. Her experiences
in Albania, Brazil, Ethiopia, Eritrea and India have spurred her on to produce this work. Sister holds a
doctorate degree in Nutrition and Public Health from Columbia University.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and Inspiring Book, January 6, 2008

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Jilian Coleman Wheeler "Jillian Coleman Wheeler," (Central Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed (Paperback)

I love this book. It takes the reader into the everyday lives of real children living in profoundly challenging conditions. Their parents have died, and relatives have often rejected them. They are grieving, and they are often lonely and afraid. Older children bear the burden of providing food, shelter and comfort to their younger siblings.

Yet the stories are filled with hope. When we in the West think of these children, we tend to count them out. But they are determined to take care of each other, to survive and overcome their circumstances. They're finding work, however humble, and they are going to school whenever they can. They're living in the present, laughing and loving. If they have adult problems, they are also still children, capable of playing and experiencing joy.

Sister MaryBeth Lloyd offers us the big picture, well documented with statistics and projections. She shows us the dimensions of the African AIDS crisis and its effect on children, but she has also filled her book with useful information on how her readers can help meet the needs of these children. And most affectingly, she lets us know and admire the children themselves.

The author was a student in our Grants Training Classes, and I have tremendous respect for the work she does. She combines love for the children with a practical approach to supporting them as they grow up and take their place as the next generation of African adults.

Jillian Coleman Wheeler
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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration for all those who care to save human children from the claws of poverty and potential abuse, July 31, 2009

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Ernest Dempsey "ED" (Pakistan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed (Hardcover)

AIDS is one of the worst threats that have thwarted humanity. In human knowledge, it has a short history; though its origin is possibly as old as humanity itself. Now in the 21st century, AIDS has become ever more terrifying in a different way than a medical condition: it is prowling on the lives of children. In her latest book AIDS Orphans Rising What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed (Loving Healing Press, December 2007), Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd alarms the readers with the frightening figures of the world's minor population that is left orphan as AIDS continues to take their parents down. Every 14 seconds, such a tragedy occurs in some part of the world!

In many developing and poor countries, the death of both parents leaves the surviving children on their own. Thus a child headed household (CHH) is formed where the orphans, many of them under 9 years of age, have to work for their survival. Those who are not left a house by their parents have to live on the streets, beg for food, and are prone to falling into crime and prostitution in order to survive. The situation is assuming the status of a crisis in African countries, particularly in South Africa and Zambia, where the governments are economically too weak to support AIDS orphans. What do these helpless children do?

As Sister Mary Elizabeth explains in her book, viewing these children as totally helpless will not be so correct a view since these orphan kids have developed coping strategies of their own to ensure their survival. These range from menial labor to selling grains and nuts, and learning technical skills while continuing to go to school full time. Still, they are very much in need of help from grownups not only to live better but also for emotional support and the development of positive and fully functional personalities as they move into adulthood. Without help, they remain at a high risk of becoming a prey to exploitation and abuse.

How can the lives of these AIDS orphans be salvaged? Sister Mary Elizabeth provides a complete resource guide in AIDS Orphans Rising for the readers to help them play their role in helping the poor kids who have been left on their own in the struggle for survival. The Sister ad her team are working in various parts of the world to support AIDS orphans and their efforts make an instance of inspiration for all those who care to save human children from the claws of poverty and potential abuse. AIDS Orphans Rising is a major step in this direction.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great and revealing read, March 19, 2009

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Elena Tudor "ShoutAboutCarolina" (Columbia, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Help Them Succeed (Paperback)

This is a very easy read and an eye opening book. I finished it in a day. It's well structured so you can jump to whatever chapter interests you most without losing anything. I like the book pragmatic spirit. It doesn't shy away from the deep actual problems, YET it offers practical and proven to work solutions that anyone can engage in.

My "Aha!" moment was the realization that we should look and treat these children as head of households in charge of keeping their little brothers and sisters together inspite off all the suffering and dire conditions they are facing. These children are not hopeless, are not helpless nor should they be forgotten. They're trying to move on with their lives and we should help them do it. Like giving gardening and trade advice, providing househols tools, and basic supplies like soap, rice, and sugar. If you can't do it on your own the book provides a list of reputable organizations that do just that.

So if you ever wonder "What can I do to help?" here is your answer. In fact every chapter has 5 to 10 simple steps that you can do at home or in your community that can make a big difference.

Yes you can make a difference!