5. Aids in Africa
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South Africa :33,4% of the population is infected (16 473 000 million)
6. AIDS
1/3 of the
population
Lack of :
- Information
- Financial means
- Infrastructures Adults died
=
More orphans
7. The impact of Aids on the families
More than 400 000 children have lost
both parents
Over 1 million children have lost their
mothers
Over 2 million children have lost their
fathers
13% of 2/14 year olds have lost at
least one parent
21% of 15/18 year olds have lost at
least one parent
More than 120 000 children live in
child headed households in South
Africa
By 2012…there will be 2 million
orphans
8. The Gogo’s
“ G o g o ” i s a Z u l u w o r d
meaning grandmother
When parents die of AIDS,
the orphans often go to live
with a "gogo” because there
is nobody else to help them
9. As the death rate accelerates,
countries and communities simply
can not cope.
As HIV/AIDS ravages families and
communities in Africa,
grandmothers have emerged as
the continent's unrecognized
heroes.
Surrounded by poverty, hunger
and desolation, they care for
children orphaned by AIDS,
sometimes as many as ten to
fifteen in one household.
10. These incredibly strong and
courageous women bury their
own children and become
parents again, calling on
astonishing reserves of love and
emotional resilience.
But they do so with almost no
support. Sub-Saharan Africa
has overwhelming numbers of
children orphaned by AIDS —
an estimated 13 million,
projected to reach 18-20 million
by the year 2010.
11. The gogo centers
Generally organized in clusters
Community for local activities
Concentration around villages
Activities:
Teaching
Support
Final objective: care center for
orphans
12. Some NPO’s
The Non Profit Organization “Safe Africa” helps gogos by
sponsorship
The Stephen Lewis foundation reaches heroic
grandmothers caring for their orphan grandchildren.
Since 2003, they have funded over 300 projects in 15
sub-Saharan African countries
13. We choose this topic
We were curious to learn more about these
grandmothers called “gogos”
We would like to give you more information about this
phenomenon that concerned particularly South Africa
The last question is: How these orphans will survive
when their “gogos” will died?
14. Their wishes
To have better health care to their
grandchildren and themselves
To be able to house, feed and clothe
their grandchildren
To send their grandchildren to school
They need help to raise their
grandchildren: a real gap between
generations
They need help in the isolated towns
(not just in cities)
They need security and financial
independence: a 82€ pension to survive
15. The « gogos » summit
Bringing together 450
grandmothers from 12 African
countries among the most affected
by the AIDS epidemic
The initiative for this meeting
comes from a Swaziland
Fundation and the Canadian
Stephen Lewis Foundation
45 Canadian grandmothers were
invited
