Nicole+Dealey

Nicole Dealey.
 * Today I watched a really moving movie called Catch a Fire! It ties in well with our topic of orphaned children. It gives heaps of challenges and even possible solutions. I rrecommend you watch it, you will not regret it! It does have viloence in it. It is about the segregation in South Africa in the 80's! It is based around the partate. Alot of orphans came from this mark in history and you must watch it o get a broader understanding of what an orphan is!**


 * I have found a really good philanthropy trust called 'The Butterfly Tree Charity' and 'Philanthropy New Zealand'**


 * WOW! I haven't posted in ages!! Last week my class was in Wellington and while we were walking around I was looking everywhere saying to myself That could could be a solution! So could that! On the way back on the train we got to write our question for our culmiating task. I don't mean to sound up myself but I think my my question was pretty darn good. I have to thank Mrs Mart for teaching me how to form a question :L**

**To see the bigger version of my wordle follow this link:**

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 * I recently completed the Refugee Famine. For the famine we had to live in cardboard boxes. We had half a cup of rice and during the night there were rebel raids. All the people acting as children experienced losing their fathers and in some cases there mothers too. "Granades" (Water Bombs) were thrown at our makeshift houses and we had possessions stolen from us. I wouldn't say that it was a good experience because "good" isn't the right word but it was definately an interesting experience. I am now even more grateful of the benefits I have in my everyday life. :)**


 * Zambia has a population of 11,669,534 people. Thats almost 3 times the size of New Zealand! Zambia is home to more than 700,000 thousand orphans due to AIDS. Did you know the life expectancy of someone living in Zambia is only 37! Zambia has a mind boggling 1.2 million orphans. The number of people that are living with HIV AIDS is over 1.4 million.**


 * This is a really good site about children that are orphaned because of AIDS. The stats are really overwhelming. Hope this helps you.**
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 * This is a really moving quote. It is to long for your quote book but it is really interesting. It is written by a 13 year old girl called Apiwe:**
 * “My sister is six years old. There are no grown-ups living with us. I need a bathroom tap and clothes and shoes. And water also, inside the house. But especially, somebody to tuck me and my sister in at night-time.”**


 * Wow I'm on a role! I found another site. It shows how many orphanages are in each state you select. First you need to choose a continent and then you need to choose a country and on the right hand side there will be a list of orphanages.**
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 * This is not so much a site but more a virtual booklet. It is really long but it has most countries in it. Apart from Vietnam (sorry Rachel). Feel free to copy it to your wiki place if you need to.**
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 * The following link is an article about Orphaned and Vulnerable children. It is based on Zambia but can relate to any other country that is facing he same problems.**

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 * This website is a good site to find information on your country. There are several countries at the top. Who got Rwanda cause there's a page for them.**

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 * This is one of the most eye opening videos I have ever seen. It is amazing that people are still being treated like this. :(**

**[|http://lusunguchildren.org/home/Default.aspx]**
 * This is a really inspirational site! If you scroll down you will see that the activities they do are very similar to our daily activities.**

**http://aids-africa.wikispaces.com/**
 * This is my own personal wikispace. Feel free to join it. I will just post different facts about AIDS in African countries.**


 * If you are looking for something on Typhus this is a good site. It has the three main types of typhus and how they are passed onto people.**
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**__Research__**

**part from orphans there are many other vulnerable children in Zambia - street children (75,000 to 90,000), children who are physically or sexually abused (there has been a large increase in the media reports on these), child labour (on the increase as AIDS-related mortality pushes an increasing number of young children into income-generating activities outside the home), and disabled children mostly invisible and anonymous, their number unknown, but almost certainly exceeding 150,000.**
 * **It has been 15 years since the first case of AIDS was diagnosed in Zambia. Since then it has spread to the whole country thus leaving no area exempt. The estimation of people with AIDS is 1 out of every 5 people aged 15 to 49. This means that over 1,000,000 people have AIDS in Zambia alone (That’s a quarter of New Zealand!). 70,000 children have also been infected from their mothers.**
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 * **An orphan is a child who has lost one or both parents. A maternal orphan has lost the mother, a paternal orphan the father. A child who has lost both parents is sometimes referred to as a double orphan. It is very likely that a child who has lost one parent because of AIDS will soon become a double orphan, since the likelihood of the surviving parent being HIV-infected is also high. Some children are multiple orphans. They became orphans through the death of one or both parents. This led to their being incorporated into the family of relatives. In several cases, AIDS claims these relatives also, and once again the child is orphaned. Some children have had repeated experience of this.**
 * **Estimates vary as to the number of orphans in Zambia. One estimate is that 1.2 million children, or more than one-third of those under the age of 15, are orphans who have lost one or both parents. Less than one quarter of the orphans have lost their parent or parents to other forms of sickness or accidents, while more than three-quarters are orphans because of AIDS. The large proportion of orphaned children gives Zambia the unhappy distinction of being the most orphaned country in the world. Instead of getting smaller, or at least not increasing, the problem of orphanhood is increasing rapidly.**
 * **Between 1996 and 1998, there was a national increase of over fifteen percent in the number of orphans. This was a very large increase in such a short time. The situation was even worse in the Southern Province where there was a thirty percent increase. This continued rapid growth in the scale of the orphans problem means that Zambia is likely to retain its position as the most heavily orphaned country in the world for at least the coming ten years, with the proportion of orphaned children rising to more than 38%.**


 * __Short Biographical Sketch of Asidius Kisekka__**

**Asidius Kisekka is just one of the 700,000 orphans in Zambia. I will read you a short entry that Asidius put on the world vision site.**

**"I am 9 years old now. I am in primary two [second grade] at St. Kizito Sabina Boarding Primary School. After my studies I want to become a doctor. My best subjects are math, English, and Luganda [A Ugandan language]. I also love dancing and singing. When I am not at school, I like running around and digging."**

**Before Asidius was being sponsored he was looking after his 3 younger siblings. His mother had died from HIV AIDS and his father was working the diamond mines. Asidius watched his 3 year old brother die from Murine Typhus. Asidius is now attending a boarding school. His life is turning around with hopes of a better life.**

**Murine Typhus is one of the worst states of Typhus you can have. It is passed through fleas on rats. Unlike Epidemic typhus which is passed through lice on humans. Murine Typhus is half as common but it is twice as deadly.**

**__Article I wrote about Orphans in Africa - this is actually my speech for the speech competition__**

**Orphans in Africa**

**“My sister is six years old. There are no grown-ups living with us. I need a bathroom tap and clothes and shoes. And water also, inside the house. But especially, somebody to tuck me and my sister in at night-time.” Good morning/Good afternoon my name is Nicole Dealey. My speech is going to be about the increasing Orphan crisis in Africa. I will talk about Child trafficking, Sweat shops, Lost Identity Children, The major causes leading to orphan hood and what needs to be done to stop so many children becoming lost.**

**First off I’ll start with talking about Lost Identity Children**

**One day you come home from school and your parents are gone. You are forced to either live on the streets or in a cramped orphanage where up to three kids share the same bed. You eat stodgy porridge most mornings but no one notices when you don’t get fed. At the moment there are 43.8 million orphans in Africa. 25.7 million of these orphans are what you call LIO’s. Here’s another scenario. Imagine you are a LIO. You live in an orphanage or on the streets and you get treated the same as the other orphans but because according to the government you do not officially “exist” there is no hope of you ever getting adopted or finding your birth parents. You may think, well if I were a LIO I would just wait till I was older and I would find a job but sadly for 83% of LIO’s this never happens because no one is willing to employ them if they do not have an ID. In Africa when you are born you are not given an ID straight away. I think that when you are born you should be given an ID and be put on the Government system this way if you do become and orphan the government will still know who you are.**

**Child trafficking and Sweat Shops**

**The orphans that are not lucky enough to end up in an orphanage soon become employees of a Sweat Shop or Coco farm. When I use the word employee I do not mean it in the phrase “My mum is an employee at Torbay School, she works in the office.” No I use it in the phrase “I sell chocolates for the school to fundraise.” What I mean by this is that few people get anything for selling the chocolates most people just get some chocolate from the box. This is like Sweat Shop kids because only the lucky ones get paid when the leave the sweatshops but the ones that don’t get paid just get the leftovers of things that could not be sold. Now what do you think of when you bite into a Milk Chocolate bar? Do you think…? YUM CHOCOLATE! Or do you think I wonder how this chocolate was made? I’m guessing that most of you were thinking… Yum Chocolate. Because honestly who would think about where and how chocolate was made. The truth is that most of the chocolate that you eat is first harvested on coco farms in the Ivory Coast and Ghana. Home to the largest population of trafficked children in the world! I’m not saying that you mustn’t eat chocolate. But next time you bite into your caramel Kit Kat take a second to think about the kids that spend all day harvesting coco for you to eat instead of going to school.**

**But what’s happening to the children of Africa that’s so bad that it is pushing them into Orphan hood?**

**AIDS, Typhus, Malaria, Natural Disasters, Abandonment. The list could go on forever. There are endless reasons why there are so many orphans. The largest area of concern is AIDS. There are 12.1 million orphans in Africa due to AIDS. AIDS is one of the worst illnesses you can have because the treatment for AIDS is so expensive that only the Priminister would be able to afford it. AIDS is a silent illness as well. If your mother had AIDS then the likeliness of you not having AIDS is almost 1 in a million even though you may not know it until you are 6 or 7 years old. The last illness I am going to talk about is Typhus. Typhus and Malaria are most widely found in the poorer areas in Africa. Typhus is passed through Fleas on Rats. I don’t mean your domestic rats that you find around Auckland. I mean the rats that live in Africa that are filthy and have so many fleas you can see them moving around on the backs of them. Most orphans are either infected or will be later in their lives by one of the diseases. Something that can be done to stop these fatal diseases from spreading is giving the sick access to medical equipment.**

**It is very easy to just turn off the TV when you see something you don’t like. But the reality is that no matter how many times you press the off button on your remote the orphan crisis in Africa will not go away unless we do something to try and help it. Whether that is sponsoring a child or not buying things that you know are made in sweat shops. You can make a difference today in light of better tomorrow.**

**By Nicole Dealey**