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USAID funds Mandela children

    JOHANNESBURG

    The United States International Agency for International Development on Friday gave the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund (NMCF) US $5 million for programme targeting HIV/AIDS orphans and young people at risk.

    The programmes USAID and the NMCF said would help support parents and caregivers at a community level so that children who had been orphaned need not be removed from their immediate communities. It will also educate young people about HIV/AIDS and it effects.

    The programmes are expected to be implemented over a three to five year period.

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