Unforgettable Swazi Images

Child Life Specialist, Lori works with a young girl at a Care Point.

After the food is prepared by community volunteers at each care point, it's dished up for the kids who await their turn. Hundreds of children are fed each day via this system and for most, it is their only meal of the day.

Preparing 'lunch' normally involves beans, potatoes, cabbage and other legumes. When available, meat is also added to the stew. Chickens arrive live and are cleaned and cooked up in their entirety, from head to foot... literally.

Gigi's Place is the Care Point where PePe frequented. Susan is one of the many local volunteers who helps with the cooking to feed the children each day at this care point. Like so many of the children we saw, Susan also suffers from AIDS yet she continues to work tirelessly providing comfort for orphaned and vulnerable children in Swaziland.

These children are eagerly awaiting dinner time.

Lori gives comfort to a young boy undergoing foot surgery with only local anesthesia. Sugery was performed on our makeshift operating table - a rickety metal table set up on the grass outside the Carepoint.