Bongiwe Dlamini 

"When my father died, my mother was not there. I was with my father, and my father sent me to bring some water and when I came back, trying to give him some water, he was dead. He couldn't talk."

Bongiwe vertelt over het overlijden van haar vader. Ze is het oudste meisje in een familie van vier kinderen die allemaal in een tehuis voor AIDS-wezen wonen. Alle vier zijn ze getuige geweest van de dood van hun beide ouders.

Bongiwe tells us about the death of her father. She is the oldest girl in a family of four that all live in a care center for AIDS-orphans. All four of them have witnessed both their parents die.

In another interview Bongiwe is asked about the passing away of her mother. She became upset and said in broken English:

"I saw a hearse was coming to my house and I knew my mother was dead."

The children's grandmother is still alive, but she is unable to care for them. She has five younger children of her own who she lives with in a two-room house. She works as a cleaning lady and earns less than € 35,- a month to support the whole family.

About Bongiwe's brother Sihle we hear a great story from Paul, one of the volunteers at the orphanage:

"One day we took him to a doctor to have an ear infection treated. He was clearly in pain so we bought him a bar of chocolate to cheer him up. He didn't touch it all the way home so we couldn't work out what was wrong. It was only later we found out he had saved it and shared it out amongst all 25 of the other children!"