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HIV/AIDS orphans taught to farm

    JOHANNESBURG

    A new United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) programme is helping Swaziland's HIV/AIDS orphans to feed themselves.

    UNICEF has begun teaching children in the country's southeast Lubumba region to grow food themselves.

    An estimated 35 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS in Swaziland are also affected by the country's massive food shortages.

    "A parent takes ill and it affects the labour capacity in the family. So you reach a point where you're losing parents and those who are left, whether it's a wife who's left or orphans who are left, don't have the capacity to grow anything," Alan Brody, UNICEF head in Swaziland, said in a statement.

    Brody said they were hoping the scheme would enable some of the children to develop into the skilled farmers the country so desperately needs.

    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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