Agnes is a double orphan who lives with her grandmother at Jemba village. The grandmother has a small piece of land on which she grows food crops for home consumption, but she has no income-generating activity which makes it difficult for her to meet the basic needs of the family for things like clothes, medical … Read more

HAawari is a paternal orphan who stay with his grandmother. His father died of HIV/AIDS and his mother left him to go to a nearby big town to look for a job. His  grandmother tries hard to see that Hawari attends school, but she ends up failing simply because she has grown very old and … Read more

Elifazi is a paternal  orphan who lives with his mother, 2 sisters, and his older brother at Jemba Village. His mother has no job but they have a small piece of land on which they grow food for home consumption. His mother finds it difficult to meet the basic needs of the family because she … Read more

Evelyn is a double orphan – both her mother and father died of HIV AIDS. She lives with her grandmother and 5 other children, all of them orphans. The grandmother has a small piece of land on which she grows food crop and coffee for cash. Because the grandmother is a peasant farmer, she gets … Read more

Resty is a paternal orphan who stays with her grandmother at Jemba village. The family has a small piece of land on which they grow food crops for home consumption, but the grandmother has no income-generating projects which makes it difficult to meet daily basic needs including an education for Resty.  She needs someone who … Read more

Jovan is a paternal orphan who lives with his mother. They rent a small room at Jemba village, but his mother has no job. She tries to do some casual labour in other people’s gardens, sometimes only working for food because she does not have a piece of land of her own. Jovan’s mother finds … Read more

Rosette stays with her aging grandmother with many other children at Kitongo Village. Her father became a drug addict and struggles with mental illness. Her mother went away to look for work, thereby leaving all the responsibility of caring for her children with the grandmother who has no job. She works on her small garden … Read more

Edrine is a maternal orphan whose mother died of HIV and he now lives with his grandmother who is totally weak and aged. Edrine’s father is also HIV positive and he is not working. The only money he gets is used for his own survival on things like transport to go to health facility to … Read more

Jonathan lives with his mother, grandparents and 10 other children in the same household together. His mother works as peasant farmer on her small piece of land. Jonathan’s father died of HIV/ AIDS and his mother is also HIV positive. His mother has no job but she helps the grandmother in the garden where they … Read more

Abdul is a paternal orphan whose father died and he lives with his mother at Jemba village with his two brothers and a sister. Abdul’s mother has no formal job but she used to work as a cook at a school in a nearby village, but the money she makes as a cook is not … Read more