Swaziland Blog

Here's a story about one of our school kids named Fana, age 7. Fana's mother and 3 siblings have died of AIDS. His father is HIV positive. Fana is HIV negative. The father doesn't want the boy anymore and put him to live with a girlfriend in Siteki. The girlfriend says he can hang around the property but cannot sleep in her house. We don't think she feeds him, so he mostly eats at school on school days. The two teen girls in the picture have never been to any school. They spend their time collecting firewood. Susan told the girlfriend today to send the teens to our free school. We will see if they show up. The father will sign off on Fana so he could be a good candidate for adoption. We are looking for a family near the Moyeni school he can stay with temporarily.