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An Orphaned Girl’s Cry Against AIDS

August 10, 2007

With the aids epidemic heartily and deeply rooted in Africa, tearing away at its peoples lives, many young people are left in despair on what to do. It rips through families and villages leaving behind countless orphans for Mother Earth to care for. Seventeen year old Adama whom attends SOS Hermann Gmeiner School Bakoteh in Gambia, speaks out on the effect AIDS has left in her native homeland. She lives in a country where 69% of inhabitants live below poverty lines, and as of 2005 20,000 people where living with HIV/AIDS, and 3,800 children were counted orphans. She writes:

Oh, you wicked AIDS
You have come again.

The whole village is mourning.
The promising gentleman has fallen dead
And the future of the family is in ruins.

You have hit again.
The bread winner has departed,
So the rising jewel is lost.

The terror of contemporary society.
You rob communities and leave our homes barren
Oh, you wicked AIDS

So boys and girls be careful!
AIDS is around and real.

Topics: Africa |