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  • In 2008 1.4 million South African children orphaned by AIDS. Many of them are extremely vulnerable;<br /> they are abused or abandoned and often end up in slavery or criminality. Dudu (29), orphan herself but<br /> now a self]confident woman with a family, is particularly concerned with their fate. She gathers the<br /> children after school and teaches them about rights and values. She is not afraid to discuss the sober<br /> reality. The children are offered a time and a place to ask for help and to help each other.<br /> <br /> Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. HIV infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on a life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new life in the city and never return. If they do come home, they bring HIV. The virus has made an already weak society even weaker. Children are growing up fast, they are left with ill parents, ageing grandparents or younger siblings. Grandparents foster the babies, but are too old to prepare them for nowadays society. A new kind of family has established itself. Child headed households are beginning to be common.

  • In 2008 1.4 million South African children orphaned by AIDS. Many of them are extremely vulnerable;<br /> they are abused or abandoned and often end up in slavery or criminality. Dudu (29), orphan herself but<br /> now a self]confident woman with a family, is particularly concerned with their fate. She gathers the<br /> children after school and teaches them about rights and values. She is not afraid to discuss the sober<br /> reality. The children are offered a time and a place to ask for help and to help each other.<br /> <br /> Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. HIV infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on a life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new life in the city and never return. If they do come home, they bring HIV. The virus has made an already weak society even weaker. Children are growing up fast, they are left with ill parents, ageing grandparents or younger siblings. Grandparents foster the babies, but are too old to prepare them for nowadays society. A new kind of family has established itself. Child headed households are beginning to be common.

  • In 2008 1.4 million South African children orphaned by AIDS. Many of them are extremely vulnerable;<br /> they are abused or abandoned and often end up in slavery or criminality. Dudu (29), orphan herself but<br /> now a self]confident woman with a family, is particularly concerned with their fate. She gathers the<br /> children after school and teaches them about rights and values. She is not afraid to discuss the sober<br /> reality. The children are offered a time and a place to ask for help and to help each other.<br /> <br /> Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. HIV infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on a life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new life in the city and never return. If they do come home, they bring HIV. The virus has made an already weak society even weaker. Children are growing up fast, they are left with ill parents, ageing grandparents or younger siblings. Grandparents foster the babies, but are too old to prepare them for nowadays society. A new kind of family has established itself. Child headed households are beginning to be common.

  • In 2008 1.4 million South African children orphaned by AIDS. Many of them are extremely vulnerable;<br /> they are abused or abandoned and often end up in slavery or criminality. Dudu (29), orphan herself but<br /> now a self]confident woman with a family, is particularly concerned with their fate. She gathers the<br /> children after school and teaches them about rights and values. She is not afraid to discuss the sober<br /> reality. The children are offered a time and a place to ask for help and to help each other.<br /> <br /> Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. HIV infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on a life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new life in the city and never return. If they do come home, they bring HIV. The virus has made an already weak society even weaker. Children are growing up fast, they are left with ill parents, ageing grandparents or younger siblings. Grandparents foster the babies, but are too old to prepare them for nowadays society. A new kind of family has established itself. Child headed households are beginning to be common.

  • In 2008 1.4 million South African children orphaned by AIDS. Many of them are extremely vulnerable;<br /> they are abused or abandoned and often end up in slavery or criminality. Dudu (29), orphan herself but<br /> now a self]confident woman with a family, is particularly concerned with their fate. She gathers the<br /> children after school and teaches them about rights and values. She is not afraid to discuss the sober<br /> reality. The children are offered a time and a place to ask for help and to help each other.<br /> <br /> Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. HIV infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on a life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new life in the city and never return. If they do come home, they bring HIV. The virus has made an already weak society even weaker. Children are growing up fast, they are left with ill parents, ageing grandparents or younger siblings. Grandparents foster the babies, but are too old to prepare them for nowadays society. A new kind of family has established itself. Child headed households are beginning to be common.

Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 2009. In this rural area the HIV raged to its full extent, infection numbers are amongst the highest worldwide. This is a documentary on the life in a community where traditional family care has fallen apart. How do neighbors, children, mothers and friends survive when almost an entire generation has vanished by HIV/AIDS? In a region with very little industrialization, people are forced to work hundreds of kilometers away from home. Quite often they find a new...
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