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New project assists AIDS orphans

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    A joint community-based initiative is offering support to Mozambique's HIV/AIDS orphans and their guardians. The project is based in Tete province, where the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the NGO HelpAge International's (HAI) "Living Together" programme assists guardians with basic needs, so that orphans can continue their schooling. By the end of 2002, more than 770 elderly people caring for some 2,187 orphans had been identified in five communities in Tete. "The biggest problem the elderly face is having to raise their grandchildren, because very often their own children die and leave six to eight grandchildren, which the elderly have to protect," UNICEF Mozambique spokesman, Michael Klaus, told the UN news service PlusNews.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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