Omsorg om barnen! : HUYAWAs arbete för AIDS-föräldralösa barn i Tanzania

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Kagera region is the most severely AIDS affected region in Tanzania. With its more than 150.000 AIDS orphans, which is 1/3 of the children of the region, the disease lays a heavy burden on society and on peoples' lives. It has a crucial demographical and economical impact on the society. It kills the productive part of the population and leaves the orphans without financial and psychological support. This situation made the Evangelical Lutheran church of Tanzania (ELCT) start the program HUYAWA in 1989, for the orphans and widows in the region. Since then the program has grown and is today the largest program working for the orphans in Kagera. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the work of HUYAWA with help of specific psychological theories, namely attachment theory, ecological theory and Atle Dyregrov's theory of children in sorrow/trauma. The question in this paper is: what kind of problems are AIDS orphans facing...