The international aid agency, World Relief, has issued a manual to churches in Kenya that will assist them in caring for African AIDS orphans, reported the news agency, Inter Press Service (IPS).
The 92-page document, entitled "Our Children: The Church Cares for Children Affected by AIDS", underlines the importance of helping orphans and children caring for HIV-positive parents to continue their education.
"You can use your church building as a classroom, and church members as teachers, to teach children who cannot go to school because they are caring for their parents," the manual suggested.
Research shows that some 11 million children under the age of 15 in sub-Saharan Africa had lost one or both parents to the HIV/AIDS pandemic by the end of 2001, and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) believes this figure could double by 2010.
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