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New project assists AIDS orphans

    JOHANNESBURG

    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.

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