In Uganda, eighty percent of the population is under the age of 18. Uganda has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world ... all who contact it here will eventually die from AIDS or an AIDS related disease. Many more have butchered and maimed due to the instablity created by a rebel group called The Lords Resistance Army. Children are abducted as young as three by the Lord’s Resistance Army (a rebel group) and forced to become either sex slaves or soldiers.There are other groups that raid villages for the cattle. ("Cattle Raiders," tribes that will kill the people and steal the cattle.) Dispite this, the culture is very family oriented, meaning the children left are raised by family members and not orphanages ... the result is children raising their younger sibblings. It is not unusual for a child as young as seven to go to school with an infant in tow. Below are just a few of the babies rasing babies ...
