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[|Click Here]​​Avert- A really good AIDS site with lots of statistics: [] UNICEF statistics by country- very helpful: []

MYANMAR Myanmar (Burma) is a country in south-east asia. It has large amounts of AIDS and is a also a coup nation (it hasn't had a democracy since 1962!)

My Website [|www.bethsfps.webs.com] I made this website for FPS research, but mostly for Orphan Children. It has a big page with information on all sorts of things. Feel free to join or comment.

THIRD WORLD ORPHANS This is an amazing site. You can find a link to it from the resources page in my website. It has heaps of statistics, from all over the world as well as heaps of pages about third world orphans living around the world. It has pages on why there are lots of awesome, and contains links to lots of charity organisations. It can be found at: []

Some Interesting Information....

"It is currently estimated that 3,000-4,000 infants in Myanmar contract HIV/AIDS from their mothers each year", and that by 2012 the number will have risen hugely. Myanmar has one of the highest AIDS rates in Southeast Asia. The number of AIDS orphans is also on the rise. You can read the whole UNICEF article at: []

AIDS is the main cause for Orphan children in myanmar, but as Myanmar is a highly militriastic nation with many military coups many orphan children are because of violence. []

MY ORPHAN CHILD Name: Than-Thiri (million gold) Region: Rangoon, the capital of Myanmar Lives:In a huge rubbish dump on the edge of the capital, Rangoon with her AIDS infected brothers and sister Reason orphaned: Mother died in childbirth. Father was killed by AIDS.Medical: Has AIDS and is severely underweight Picture:

On the outskirts of Myanmar is ahuge rubbish dump. Many of the children and adults who live here are refugees who have fled from their homes because of violence and fighting. They have very poor living conditions and many fall prey to diseases, while the lack of food and clean water means that many people, large amounts of them children, are malnourished or starving. Many die of starvation. You can find out more about this rubbish dump at: []

Every morning Than-Thiri wakes up at 4 AM to prepare a meager breakfast of rice for her 3 younger siblings, before setting off to walk a mile to the nearest source of water, a large river. This river is filthy and contaminated, as further upstream it is used as a dumping site for a towns waste, and other people wash here, sending dirty soap suds that make children sick.

After her siblings have been fed they set to work. Every day they must rummage through filthy, disgusting rubbish in order to find recyclable material that they can then sell for exproportianly tiny amounts of money. Every day, on average these children make the equivalent of two New Zealand cents.

There is nowhere near enough money to send Than-Thiri or her younger siblings to school, and she is required to work in the dump all day, so she receives no education. This means that she will not be able to escape her poor situation.

Than-Thiri is one of 1.6 million orphans who live in Myanmar, and, like her struggle to survive. Her mother died in childbirth, as is often the case in poor countries where access to medical equipment is not available, and correct sanitation during childhood or operations is unlikely. Her father than remarried and had three children by his new wife, who died of hepatitis. He followed soon after, leaving his four children with no-where to go. All four children have HIV in their bloodstreams, inherited from there parents, and they have no knowledge that they have it, let alone when it will become full blown AIDS.

This gave me lots of interesting info: []

Myanmar has no adoptions allowed from overseas countries, the government instead saying that they will be placed in orphanages and given education. However, at this point in time orphanages have poor living conditions and very little education is being given.

The statistics listed for world orphans below come from these sites: [] []

** It is estimated there are between 143 million and 210 million orphans worldwide (recent UNICEF report.) ** The current population of the United States is just a little over 300 million… to give you an idea of the enormity of the numbers… (The current population of Russia is 141 million) Every day **5,760** more children become orphans **2,102,400** more children become orphans every year in Africa alone Every **15 seconds**, another child in Africa becomes an AIDS orphan There are an estimated **14 million** AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa (//a number higher than the total of every under-eighteen year old in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland combined//) This figure is estimated to reach **18 million** orphans in Africa alone by 2010 (only two and a half years away) **8** out of **10** children orphaned by AIDS lives in sub-saharan Africa Approximately **250,000** children are adopted annually, but… Each year **14, 505, 000** children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age sixteen Each day **38,493** orphans age out Every **2.2 seconds** another orphan ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home In Russia and the Ukraine, studies have shown that **10% – 15%** of these children commit sucide before they reach age eighteen These studies also show that **60%** of the girls become prostitutes and **70%** of the boys become hardened criminals Another Russian study reported that of the **15,000** orphans aging out of state-run institutions every year, **10%** committed suicide, **5,000** were unemployed, **6,000** were homeless and **3,000** were in prison within three years… Beths FPS This is my site. Remember to check it out please. It has lots of facts about orphan children, and quite a lotof this information, plus more can be found on it. It also has a wiki page and other stuff so please feel free to comment. Thanks! [|www.bethsfps.webs.com]

Philanthropy Homework

Philanthropy is the act of giving, or organising something that will in many ways benefit fellow man. In the case of Orphan or destitute children philanthropy is especially common as children are considered, and indeed are more vulnerable and in need of resources. Check out these Philantropic organisations:

[|Newmans Own]: This is an organisation set up by actor Paul Newman. They make sauces and salad dressings, and all proceedings go to charity. [|Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation]: An organisation founded by Bill Gates. One of its most notable achievments is the almost complete eradication of polio. [|The Edhi Organisation]: A philanthropic organisation based in Pakistan. [|Muslim Aid]: Especially interesting for its involvement in the Pakistan flooding emergency.

Example of Philanthropic Solution The Clyde family of Killarney Island will organise a sponsered swim around the Island in order to raise funds for the many children orphaned in the wake of Hurricane Rita. The residents of Killarney Island will sponser the Clydes 500 dollars per family, and the Clydes will organise a small group of fellow philanthropists to take food and shelter to the orphans for "the well-being of mankind, as by charitable aid" ﻿The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 2007. Each member of the Clyde family will swim once around the Island, recieving 10 dollars from every family for the 3 kilometre swim. This money will then be used to buy supplies such as food, water and makeshift shelters for the estimated 200 children orphaned before they can be offered permanent aid.