Guest, Emma. Children of Aids: Africa's Orphan Crisis

Guest, a freelance writer on AIDS-related matters, concentrates on the neglected and perhaps most helpless and vulnerable victims of the AIDS epidemic...the millions of street orphans from all over Africa, especially in such sub-Saharan countries as South Africa, Zambia, and Uganda. Buy

Labels: Children, Ghana, Health, Kenya, Politics, Tanzania, Uganda

Iweala, Uzodinma. Beasts of No Nation: A novel

Agu, the precocious, gentle son of a village schoolteacher father and a Bible-reading mother, is dragooned into an unnamed West African nation's mad civil war - a boy forced, almost overnight, to shoulder a soldier's bloody burden. The pre-teen protagonist is moulded into a fighting man by his demented guerrilla leader and, after witnessing his father's savage slaying, by an inchoate need to belong to some kind of family, no matter how depraved. Buy

Labels: Children, Literature, Uganda

Dodge, Cole P. and Magne Raundalen (Eds.) War, Violence, and Children in Uganda

Murphy, Allyson and Emily Verellen. LightBox: Expressions of Hope from Young Women in the Kibera Slum of Nairobi

LightBox is comprised entirely of photographs taken by Binti Pamoja's members and essays they have written to accompany those photos. All of the pictures were taken with disposable or simple point-and-shoot cameras during the period of 2002-2004. Their expressions offer a candid look at the lives of young women in poverty. Their photography and essays display a powerful message: one of struggle, perseverance and hope. Buy

Labels: Children, Inspirational, Kenya, Pictorial, Women

Born into Brothels (DVD 2004)

This film is a portrait of several unforgettable children who live in Calcutta’s red light district, where their mothers work as prostitutes. A New York based photographer lives in the brothels while documenting the film and teaches the children photography. As the children look at the world through new eyes they begin to awaken to their own talents and sense of worth and discover how education can transform their lives. Buy

Labels: Children, India, Women

Simkins, Joan. Ceaucescu's Children - The Amazing Story of One Woman's Mission to Romanian Orphans

"Joan exposes the reason for the thousands of institutionalised children-Ceaucescu and his selfish, dehumanising ways. She shows that these children are beautiful and require one thing above all else...love of God and of us who have it in our ability to help". Amazon review. Buy

Labels: Children, Inspirational, Romania, Women

Singer, P.W. Children at War

Over six million child combatants were killed or injured in the past decade. In this groundbreaking and comprehensive study, Singer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and former adviser to the U.S. military, explores the rise and expansion of child soldiery. Buy

Labels: Children, History, Politics, Uganda

Temmerman, Els de. Aboke Girls: Abducted in Northern Uganda

The abduction of over 40 girls from the Catholic School at Aboke, and the nun who followed the rebels on foot to get them back is an amazingly heart wrenching and well told tale. Els De Temmerman also offers fascinating insights into the twisted mind of rebel leader Joseph Kony, and his spiritual quest to purify the Acholi race. If at all you are interested in the Northern Ugandan crisis, then this is an absolute must read. Buy

Labels: Children, History, Uganda, Women

Beazely, Jan. The Strength of Mercy: Making a Difference in the World One Child at a Time

Jan Beazely is co-founder of All God's Children International, a licensed, non-profit Christian adoption and relief ministry. The agency was founded in 1991, after the Beazely family adopted a child from Romania, and then began to assist other families by facilitating the adoption of orphaned and abandoned children. Buy

Labels: Children, Inspirational, Romania

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