Bøger af Mary Elizabeth Lloyd

Every 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is formedThe death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, oftenfour or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family.In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households. Imaginewatching your mother and father slowly die before your eyes, leavingyou to bury them and then to raise and care for your younger brothersand sisters. AIDS Orphans Rising takes you through the daily lives ofthese 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 thesechildren as well as real solutions, actions that you can take now to helpthese children not only survive, but succeed.By 2010, there will be 25,000,000 AIDS orphans! Left alone, they willbe uneducated, disenfranchised, and unwanted: ripe candidates forradicalization and exploitation by dictators and terrorists. If good peoplelike yourself do not reach out to these children so they can get love,an education and set up in some profitable enterprise, civilization willdeteriorate 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 clearlywritten, and for the ordinary reader, and yet it is a fully documentedscholarly work." -Bob Rich, PhD, author Cancer: A Personal Challenge100% of all profits from this book will go to help the Child Headed HouseholdsFor more info: www.AIDSOrphansRising.orgPublished by Loving Healing Presswww.LovingHealing.com