For most of us who lead an easy life, we may not conceive the idea of being in dire poverty and under the threat of death. Yet this is the situation of our counterparts in China, In the rural areas of certain provinces, there are hundreds of children orphaned by AIDS . Some of them have contracted the disease from their parents who get infected by the selling of blood. Others, who are lucky enough of not being inflected ,have to face the uncertainties of the future without the nurture of their parents. For us HK students ,ALDS may seem a distant, exotic disease. For those teenagers in China ,AIDS is a devil which curses their lives. Their sufferings have led to concerns from various charitable organizations, among which the HK committee on children’s Rights has been organizing a project that needs the help of local secondary school students.
This project aims at drawing the attention of local students towards the issue of children orphaned by AIDS in China. Each school can form a team with ten students to participate in this project. The team will have to attend several training workshops .The members than have to organize various functions within their school to promote the aims of the project. At the end of the project, all participating schools will set up stalls in a shopping arcade for a large-scale publicity program, during which the mass media will be invited to give an in-depth report.
Having attended the briefing session of this project. I have come to realize the poor situation of those orphans in China. None of them receives proper education. They do not even have enough food to eat or clothes to wear. For those who are inflected with AIDS, they only receive a mere ration of medicine from the government. A thorough medical check and a medical care service are simply a luxury that cannot be afforded. The government does nothing to help them. It continues to suppress the mass media for fear that such reports will harm the reputation of the country....