Duration: 4min 58sec

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KHOPOTSO: Ka mora ho kganna nako e ka ebang hora le halofo ho tswa toropong ya Maseru, re ile ra lokela ho kganna metsotso e meng e 40 pele re ka fihla lapeng la ha ba Lenyatsa. Ntlo ya bona e hahuwe dimmetara tse mmalwa tlase ho thaba motseng wa Fobane ha Tumo. Motse ona ke o mong wa e mengata seterekeng sa Berea e aparetsweng ke sono sa bao e leng dikgutsana ka baka la lefu la Phamokathe. E ne e le labone motshehare ha re fihla re etelletswe pele ke Mokhothu Makhalanyane, mookamedi wa ditshebelletso tsa dikeletso ka tsa Phamokathe, hlokomelo ya dikgutsana le phepo ya ba hlokang sepetleleng sa setereke, Maloti Adventist Hospital.  

Introductions’€¦

Mpolokeng! Mpolokeng, you have visitors. These are your visitors’€¦

Le kae mme? Ke Khopotso. Mpolokeng Lenyatsa. Mpolokeng Lenyatsa? Ee. O ena le dilemo tse kae mme? Tse 13. Tse 13? Ee.

KHOPOTSO: Lebitso la hae ke Mpolokeng Lenyatsa. O dilemo tse 13. A le monyenyane jwalo o hlokomela lelapa labo la bana ba bane ba akaretsang moena wa hae le bomotswalae ba bararo. Ho mo hloma dipotso ka bophelo ba lelapa labo ho mo utlwisa bohloko bona ba haesale.

Child sobbing’€¦

KHOPOTSO: Bahahisane le ba bang ba ithaopa ho emela lelapa lena la boMpolokeng Lenyatsa.  

MMAMPABI KIBI : My name is Mmampabi Kibi. I’€™m the social worker from Maloti Adventist Hospital’€¦ In this family’€¦ there are five children ‘€“ there are two girls and three boys left in the family’€¦ They are all living here even though one of them is at boarding school at the moment’€¦ It’€™s a girl, aged 16’€¦

KHOPOTSO: Re bolelle dilemo tsa bana ba setseng ka hare ho lelapa.

MMAMPABI KIBI: The girl is 13. Two boys, 10 and one, 11.

KHOPOTSO: Dikgutsana tsena tsa ha Lenyatsa ke bomotswala ka madi, jwalo ka ha batswadi ba bona ba ne ba tswala mmoho. E ne e le dikgaitsedi tse pedi le moena wa bona a le mong. Esale selemo sa 2000 bana bana ba dula ba le bang ka hare ha lelapa ka mora hore wa ho qetela wa batswadi ba bona a hlokahale. Ha ho tsebahale hore ba bolauwe ke eng ntle le hore ho thwe wa ho qetela ho ya boyabatho o kutse haholo ebile o ne a tshwenywa ke letshollo le lehlatso. Ho belaelwa hore o nkuwe ke Phamokathe. Bafu bohle ba bolokilwe setsheng se morao ho ntlo hona jareteng mona, jwalo ka tlwaelo mahaeng. Mokhothu Makhalanyane, wa Maloti Adventist Hospital.

MOKHOTHU MAKHALANYANE: This is one of the graves of one of their aunts who also was staying here’€¦ She was buried here. And then the other relatives, as you can see the other graves right here in the garden.

KHOPOTSO: Mary Nekela Lenyatsa a ileng a tswalwa lefatsheng ka la 11 Mphalane 1968 o boetse a re tlohela ka la 9 Hlakola 2003, lebitla la hae le baleha ka mofuta oo. Na ebe yena e ne e le mang lelapeng lena?

MOKHOTHU MAKHALANYANE: She was the daughter of the family, who was not married, but she had the children, like the child who is heading the family.

KHOPOTSO: Yena a lemo tse 13?

MOKHOTHU MAKHALANYANE: Yes.

KHOPOTSO: Ane a mabedi ona a sa tshwauwang ke a bo mang?

MOKHOTHU MAKHALANYANE: The other one is for the uncle to this girl, the one who is heading the family, and then the aunt.

KHOPOTSO: Makhalanyane o re bothata bo kang bona ba lapa ha bo Mpolokeng Lenyatsa bo se bo ata naheng ya Lesotho. Lefapha la ntshetso pele ya bosetjhaba Lesotho le tlaleha hore ho fihlela jwale ho se ho ena le dikgutsana tse fetang 73 000 tse hlodilweng ke AIDS feela. Motseng wa Fobane ha Tumo dikgutsana tse fumanwang mono ke tse 102. Eo ke palo ya dikgutsana e hodimo ho fetisisa motseng o le mong too ka monwana! Empa ho bohlokwa ho elellwa hore hona ha ho bolele hore dikgutsana tsohle motseng oo di hlodilwe ke lefu la Phamokathe.

MOKHOTHU MAKHALANYANE: But besides that, we have actually assessed the percentage and the trend of the child-headed households. We found that 48 % of all our orphans are child-headed households. The trend is that in five years’€™ time there will be 84 % of child-headed households in our area here’€¦ HIV/AIDS is really playing the top part in all this’€¦

We did a study in ten villages looking at how many people die every weekend and how many burials (take place) and how many children become orphans.

And we realised that in ten villages, every weekend, at least (in) eight of those villages there is somebody who dies who is between 19 and 49 years old. As a result, every week, there are not less than ten children who become orphans.    

KHOPOTSO: Jwale ebe sono sena sa bana bana ba dikgutsana ho tla tshwarisanwa jwang ka sona? Makhalanyane o araba ka bokgutshwanyane: ‘€œHa ho letho le ka etswang ntle le hore bana ba rutwe boikarabelo ba ho eba batswadi.’€

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