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Feature Stories
Swaziland
Swaziland:
School Nurse Gives Life-Changing Support to Orphans
Cebsile Msane is a visiting school nurse for the Bantwana Schools Integrated Program (BSIP). Through the program she travels among 10 schools, diagnosing and treating hundreds of kids with flu, cholera, malaria, and scabies, among other illnesses. Without a designated nurse's office, she sets up a make-shift exam room—usually an empty classroom—wherever she can…
Swaziland:
Raising Chickens, Supporting Orphans
Like many people in southern Africa, the Nyandeni family of Lavumisa
has been dramatically affected by AIDS. Losing both parents in
the past 10 years, the nine Nyandeni children have been left
to raise themselves…
Swaziland:
Moyeni Social Care Centre
Zandile, four years old, like many other children in Swaziland,
lost her father, and her mother makes a living from working as
a casual domestic laborer in Siteki, a small town in the South-eastern
part of Swaziland. Zandile attends the Moyeni Social Care Centre
in Siteki…
Uganda
Uganda: Leading the Way for Child Protection.
Twelve-year-old Prince Ssemakula is already changing the way children’s rights are protected in his community. As chairperson of his school’s child rights club...
Uganda:
Across the Generations: Bantwana Offers Support for Children
and Caregiver Grandmothers
"When I was young, I would pray to God everyday to help me. My
friends in school would encourage me, and the teachers would
tell me to keep trying, but it has been really hard," says Charles…
Uganda:
Gaining a Skill and Independence with the Help of Bantwana
and All Saints Church
Doreen Chelangat had dropped out of school. The reason was painfully
ordinary: Her family couldn't afford the school fees. An uncle,
who had been her caretaker since her parents died when…
Uganda:
Using Head and Hands Together—Rushooka Orphans Education
Center
Vincent and Dorah Rutangonya's decision to devote their lives
to raising orphaned children was a deeply personal one: they
grew up as orphans themselves…
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe:
Restoring Childhood
Nine-year old Kudakwashe Zinyemba has been orphaned by AIDS and lives alone with his eleven-year old brother,
Brighton, in a rural village about 40 kilometers outside of Zimbabwe’s capital city...