Any time I hear about an “orphan” I picture a kid in a newsboy cap, hawking newspapers on a street corner and eating porridge for dinner. It seems like a quaint concept tailor-made for period films or bad Broadway musicals.
The word “orphan” really needs to be retired and replaced, because that image doesn’t do justice to the reality of things. The truth is that there are more than 15 million children in the world who have been orphaned due to AIDS.
» Read more: World AIDS orphans day – May 7, 2010
