An #Ebola Orphan’s Plea in Africa: ‘Do You Want Me?’ The New York Times After her mother died, the young girl stood outside the clinic’s gates looking around with enormous brown eyes. There was no one to pick her up. She was put on the back of a motorbike and taken to a group home, whose bare, dim hallways she now wanders alone. Social workers are trying to find someone to adopt her, and Sweetie Sweetie seems to know she is up for grabs. On a recent day she asked a visitor: “Do you want me?” Ebola has been wretched for children. More than 3,500 have been infected and at least 1,200 have died, United Nations officials estimate... But the worst off, by far, are the Ebola orphans. The United Nations Children’s Fund, or Unicef, says that across the region there may be 10,000 of them. Many are stigmatized and shunned by their own communities. nytimes/2014/12/14/world/africa/an-ebola-orphans-plea-in-africa-do-you-want-me.html
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:14:08 +0000
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