ANOTHER ORPHAN

Carolyn Cole

Los Angeles Times

Dumsile Ndlangamandla, age 12, at right, watches as her mother Busisiwe Malama, 29, is buried in a public graveyard in Mbabane, Swaziland. Her mother died of AIDS after her father also died from AIDS in 2001. Together they left behind four children. The burden of raising the children will go to relatives like Busisiwe’s sister Mnisi Khanyisile, who cries at the funeral as she holds her own child.

Carolyn Cole, "ANOTHER ORPHAN," in POYi Archive, Item #46099, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/46099 (accessed November 22, 2024).