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    The challenge experienced by orphans and child-headed families in Top Village, Mafikeng, North West Province
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03) Nkwe, Bakobanye Tsitsiri Ellen; Qubuda, Thozamile; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Science. Dept. of Industrial Psychology. Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Management.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The question, Is our political and religious leaders doing enough to deal with this problem of orphans and child-headed families in our country? However, in the North West province the intervention of NGO’s such as Tsibogang Christian Action Group which was founded in 2002 with its headquarters in Lomanyaneng, Mafikeng play an important role in assisting orphans and child-headed families. Tsibogang is interdenominational organization, operating in the area of the Central District (Ngaka Molema District Municipalities) of the North West Province. The newest project of Tsibogang Christian Action Group is Godisang Orphan Care Project. It runs a computerized data base with more than 1000 orphans and vulnerable children. They visit various homes in the villages, taking orphans and child- headed families to Home Affairs to be registered for birth certificates, and assist those who are older to apply for Identity documents and also start to apply for child social grants. There are currently 12,1million AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa alone equating to 80% of the Worlds Children who have been orphaned by AIDS. This is too much for any society to cope with in traditional ways, let alone a society eroded by AIDS (http://www.orphansknowmore.com/the-statistics). However, the problem continues to grow, by the year 2010 UNAIDS (2004) predicts orphan population in excess of 25million in Sub-Saharan Africa. In South Africa there are 1.2million AIDS Orphans in 2005, (www.avert.org/aids orphans.htm) and 83 000 child-headed household.