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POPSThousands of South African children abandoned Along with the abandoned kids, we have an ever increasing number of AIDS orphans. In a valley near where I live, the only people left are the very elderly and the very young, the rest having died of AIDS. So we have 80/90 year olds 'looking after' up to to 20/30 children each and subsisting on charity alone. One little 8 year old girl was found in a remote hut, living alone, because everyone in her family had died and she was eating only what she could catch and find. In the evenings she would walk 5kms to her nearest neighbour's hut and sleep outside because she was so afraid to stay by herself at night. It breaks my heart.