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SOUTHERN AFRICA
IRIN-SA Weekly Round-Up 356
22 - 29 December 2007


CONTENTS:

MOZAMBIQUE: Orphans deprived of their inheritance
LESOTHO: Holiday gifts pave the way to self-sufficiency


MOZAMBIQUE: Orphans deprived of their inheritance

On a farm in the district of B=E1rue, in the central province of Manica,
16-year-old Helena Ivan hurries home with a small bundle on her head.
After hours packaging potatoes, she's allowed to take a few for herself
and the two brothers she has been supporting since her parents died of
AIDS-related diseases in 2005. Of the possessions Ivan's mother and
father left - a kiosk, a house, a minibus and some goats - only the
house was handed over to the children, and only because it had been
registered in the name of the youngest child, Janu=E1rio, who is now 12.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=76013


LESOTHO: Holiday gifts pave the way to self-sufficiency

When Mamanuel Rampai heard she would receive a free pig for Christmas a
few years ago, purchased by an anonymous donor in the US through an aid
group's online gift catalogue, she all but dismissed the present. But
the gift, a seven-month-old sow named Pinki, has since made her a role
model for other pig farmers in her rural community. "I've learned so
much about how to care for them, because they've become a livelihood,"
Rampai, 43, told IRIN.

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75982


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