Orphans:

An estimated 3.7 million South African children (20% of all South African children) have lost one or both parents

About 800,000 South African children have lost both their parents (“double orphans”)

Conservative estimates state that there are around 1.4 million South African children who have lost their mothers. About 600,000 of those children have a living father. (The term “maternal orphan” is sometimes used to refer to children who have lost their mother but not their father, but at other times the term includes children who are ”double orphans” as well). The number of maternal orphans in the country is increasing at the staggering rate of over 2,000 a week!

Around 3.1 million South African children have lost their fathers. About 2.3 million of these children have a living mother. (The term “paternal orphan” is sometimes used to refer to children who have lost their father but not their mother, but at other times the term includes those children who are ”double orphans” as well)

1.4 million South African children have lost one or both parents due to AIDS (“AIDS orphans”)

Countless more children have living parents, but have been abandoned by them and are de facto orphans

Poverty:

South Africa’s unemployment rate is a staggering 24.9%!

34% of South Africans live on less than $2.15(R15) a day (at 1993 international prices), with just less than a third of those people (10.7% of South Africans) living off an incredibly meager $1.08(R7.56) or less a day (at 1993 international prices)

50% of South Africans live below the poverty line

Hope:

The crisis is significant but we have hope....

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