Many people fall victim to the HIV/AIDs virus in Lesotho but the victims Sentebale is most dedicated to helping is the children. Children, at a very young age, can and will loose their parents to this virus and will become orphans without a safe place to go. Children who have not lost their parents to the disease are still very vulnerable and without the proper health care and education they need they will continue to make the mistakes of the generation before them.
Special needs children are at a huge risk especially if they loose their parents at a young age. Some special needs children lack the skills they need to be able to provide for themselves, this can result in extreme poverty and even death. Some disabilities, without proper treatment, can worsen over time spreading infection and causing further unnecessary damage to the child.
When young children loose their parents they must find a way to provide for themselves and their family. They do this by any means necessary, whether it be working dangerous jobs, becoming herd boys who tend livestock in remote highlands in exchange for a cow for their family, or selling their body's to make ends meet and putting themselves in the path of the HIV/AIDs virus. Rumors swirling among the infected say that having sex with a virgin will cure you of the disease. This again puts young children at risk for contracting the HIV/AIDs virus and possibly being put in further harm involving violence and rape. The innocent children of Lesotho do not deserve to suffer the way they do because of the poverty and disease that fills their country.
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