Orphans sucked into new form of slavery

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Malawi - After her parents died of hunger and Aids within a month of each other, leaving no food, Rose Haindi, 14, started selling her precious inheritance to feed her two siblings.

First she sold her parents' rag clothes. Then two hens. Then a broken umbrella, three plates and two moulded mud pots. Relatives had seized and disappeared with her most prized inheritance, a bicycle.

When the 5kg-packet of maize she bought with the R16 proceeds from the sale ran out, the nightmare began.

Rose and her two siblings Ophman, 10, and Denis, 7, three of an estimated 800 000 Aids orphans in Malawi, walked 65km and worked for two and a half months in the fields of a local businessman. In return they received a 50kg bag of maize which they ferried on their heads back to their pole-and-mud hut.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=68&click_id=68&art_id=iol1042205054870M400&set_id=1

I wish I was a Dem. candidate. When I got on Me The Press, I'd accuse Bush, Cheney, Asscroft, (The entire FBI), Tenet, (The entire CIA), Lott, and Hastert of personally knowing this is happening but not sending our troops to stop it.

Do you think Russert would call me back for a second interview?

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