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Airtimes: Indian Standard Times
Wed, Jul 19 at 1830hrs
Sat, Jul 22 at 1130am and 1930hrs
Sun, Jul 23 at 1130am
CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour
travels to the slums and villages of Kenya, where more than one
million children have been orphaned by AIDS. She discovers the lost
generation of AIDS in Kenya – those who are infected at birth
or very early on in life – and are left to fight the AIDS pandemic
on their own.
“For some children, their parents’ disease is their only
inheritance” Amanpour explains. “This enemy, AIDS, is
a tragedy which bears down on families. It’s a truly shocking
story.”
In a country where HIV/AIDS was declared a national disaster in
1999, WHERE HAVE ALL THE PARENTS GONE? goes right to the heart of
this human tragedy as Amanpour spends time with the orphans left
behind. One orphan she meets is Alima, a 17-year-old girl left to
take care of her seven younger siblings. Alima must give up her
dream of going to school to keep her family together, as she says
that is the most important thing. Amanpour also introduces us to
11-year-old Mukhtar and his family, as his father is dying of AIDS
and his mother, unbeknownst to Mukhtar, is also infected.
But not all hope is lost for Kenya’s orphans. There are individuals
such as Khadija Rama, who runs a relief centre, supported by UNICEF,
where she clothes and feeds over 600 orphans in the neighbourhood,
whilst trying to find them foster families.
Amanpour also finds room for optimism when she travels to Nairobi’s
largest slum, Kibera, and to the Starra Rescue School, where 70%
of the children are AIDS orphans. This neighbourhood school is a
place where local children can receive meals and the treatment they
so desperately need.
Africa is the hardest hit of all AIDS suffering continents. Its
legacy - 12 million orphans and counting…
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