educational institutions for orphans and for children deprived of parental care

In six years now, we have four schools, one junior college, 1,100 children coming from 28 slums and four orphanages.

b. Care and support for orphans and vulnerable children (including their parents and care givers) and PLWHA in a community

Support to OVCs required more emphasis and continued UNICEF leadership across all focus areas of the plan.

After her death, his father, a villager who grows vegetables and gets other work when he can, was unable to care for him, and placed him in an orphanage.

Furthermore, the support for orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS is another one of our main priorities in Africa.

Last week, I visited an orphanage on the outskirts of the city, set up after the 2005 earthquake that killed an estimated 75,000 people.

In addition, to raise attention and resources for orphans and other children made vulnerable by AIDS, UNICEF will pursue a six year Global Campaign on HIV AIDS and Children.

Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and our own policies, we have developed a regional Red Cross programme strategy for orphans in southern Africa which advocates holistic support to ensure that all needs of orphans and other vulnerable children are met and that their rights are upheld.

When she was seven years old her father, who was a part time musician, died, and at the age of ten she was placed in an orphanage, as her mother could not raise all six children.

Eleven years later, it's one of the biggest charity organizations in Egypt, with more than 50 branches all over the country, tens of thousands of volunteers, and different activities that vary from blood donation and orphanages, to fighting illiteracy.

The Government's recently launched national plan of action for orphans and other vulnerable children was a major milestone towards improving the lives of children made vulnerable by HIV AIDS, poverty and other social and economic factors.

He would also appreciate further information concerning the investigation into the disappearance from an orphanage, between 1998 and 2002, of 502 minors of predominantly Roma and Albanian origin, whose whereabouts were, very worryingly, unknown to the authorities.