Orphaned by AIDS, kids live in graveyard
27 July 2013 5:34 AM IST
Five siblings, all children of parents who had died of AIDS three months back, have been forced to live in a graveyard in Pratapgarh district of Uttar Pradesh after being ostracised and driven out by the villagers in Jamua.
The children were shunned and made to leave their village Jamua, after it came to light that they too were infected with AIDS. The five children ,four boys and a girl, of whom the youngest is just seven years old and the eldest boy is 17, were discovered to be living in a graveyard after the relatives and other villagers threw them out fearing others may also contract the disease.
With nowhere to go, they took refuge in the village graveyard, next to where their parents are buried. The new house of the children is a tent under a tree and two broken cots and they depend on the villagers for food. But now the villagers want the children out of even the graveyard, as they now feel the kids will ‘contaminate’ the area.
The children were shunned and made to leave their village Jamua, after it came to light that they too were infected with AIDS. The five children ,four boys and a girl, of whom the youngest is just seven years old and the eldest boy is 17, were discovered to be living in a graveyard after the relatives and other villagers threw them out fearing others may also contract the disease.
With nowhere to go, they took refuge in the village graveyard, next to where their parents are buried. The new house of the children is a tent under a tree and two broken cots and they depend on the villagers for food. But now the villagers want the children out of even the graveyard, as they now feel the kids will ‘contaminate’ the area.
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