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World Service,01 Jan 2001,28 mins

Grandmothers Raising AIDS Orphans

Everywoman

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Actionaid has launched a campaign to draw attention to grandmothers left with the burden of caring for orphans whose parents have been killed by AIDS. The show talks to one such grandmother, raising seven children in her old age. Also on the programme: The close friends who write books together under the single name, DeBerry Grant. Plus, the Kenyan woman who is taking the golf world by storm.

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