UN Manual Teaches Farming Skills to African AIDS Orphans
A new manual launched by the United Nations hopes to equip AIDS orphans in Africa with farming skills to help them learn how to create sustainable livelihoods and ensure food security, reports South African news service BuaNews (allafrica.com, 12/11).
“Children and youth bare the heaviest burden of the AIDS crisis,” said Marcela Villarreal, Director of UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division.
The manual, compiled by FAO and the UN World Food Program (WFP), explains how to set up a Junior Farmer Field and Life School where children can go to learn agricultural skills and gain information on how to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.
Approximately 11.4 million of the more than 40 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa have lost their parents to AIDS, reports BuaNews/AllAfrica.com.
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"I'm HIV positive and diabetic (as well as have high cholesterol) and some of my meds specify taking them with 'high fat foods' which I have to do twice a day. I've eaten as healthy as possible, but when it comes to high fat foods, I am in a quandary...about what to eat sometimes..."
