Descriptive video, calming, serious, storyteller, narrator
Vocal Characteristics
Language
EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (Canadian-General) North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
The Republic of Mozambique is a narrow country on Africa's southeast coast. Most people here survive as substance farmers. When they confined work, they might earn a dollar, or maybe a dollar and 1/4 at the end of the day. HIV and AIDS are rampant throughout the population. It's estimated that AIDS accounts for almost 25% off all deaths in Mozambique. All too often it's the young, orphaned Children that suffer the most. We met Selena and Sardinha only a short time ago. Selena, age 11 and Sardinha, age eight, are cousins. They live in a very simple hut, made only of thatch, and reads the same hut in which they cook and store food. They have no parents, only an elderly grandmother who has seen MAWR tragedy than you can imagine. Selina's mother died of AIDS a few years ago and a few years after her husband also died of the same disease. HIV is rampant in their province of Gaza, one of the highest prevalence rates in all of Mozambique. Sardinas mother was also a victim of AIDS. Every day, the two cousins eat a meal made of cassava and leaves. Although cassava has little nutritional value. The food will ease their hunger temporarily. But soon they will be starved and hungry again. Their grandmother worries that one day soon she will die. After that, these beautiful young girls will most likely drop out of school to fend for themselves and be lost to lives of severe poverty.