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The Children Behind Project
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007
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CABRINI COLLEGE
50 Vol XLIX, Issue 13
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Caregivers come together to grow crops to increase their food supplies in Kenya. The Children Behind project supports 16,350 AIDS orphans and vulnerable children as well as their caregivers in Nyanza province to improve quality of life and provide the children with the community support they need.
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SUBMITTED PHOTO/ DEBBIE DEVOE
14-year-old Brenda Obote, pictured above, lost both of her parents to AIDS, The Children Behind project has enabled her to attend school and still care for her three siblings.
Angeline Adhiambo has been on antiretroviral medications since January 2007. Here she speaks with nurse Jane Maina, a home-based care nurse who regularly visits ARV patients like Adhiambo. Maina works for the Archdiocese of Mombasa, a CRS partner in Kenya.
Children orphaned by AIDS create new lives VICKIE PAPAGEORGE COPY EDITOR VP724@CABRINI.EDU DIANA VILARES EVENTS EDITOR DVV722@CABRINI.EDU
At the tender age of 8, Morris Chapa’s parents lost the battle to HIV/AIDS, leaving three
young boys behind in their native country of Kenya. Their uncle, who was given primary custody of the boys, betrayed his nephews by stripping them of the property their parents had left and chased the boys away. Left with a feeling of abandonment, the boys fled to their aunt’s home in hopes of receiving care. Shortly after, Morris, along with
one of the younger brothers, were tested positive for HIV/AIDS. “Support a wish of some boy in Nairobi” to finish college and “become a responsible citizen. The plan of that child is kind of like a dream that is dead.” This was the plea of Robert Makunu, a native of Kenya and the deputy HIV unit manager of the faithbased organization, Catholic Re-
lief Services. “His parents are not alive because of HIV.” Makunu visited Cabrini College in preparation for Cabrini’s observance of World Aids Day on Dec. 1. Kenya has 37 million people and 1.5 million are children orphaned because of AIDS. They have lost both parents due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that has been declared
a national disaster in Kenya. Makunu told another story of a young girl in Kenya who was impregnated by a village chief. She faced the possibility of being infected of HIV/AIDS. She then faced the prospect of having her unborn child affected
AIDS, page 3
Successful internships lead to full-time positions NICOLE OSUCH MANAGING EDITOR NAO722@CABRIN.EDU
A study completed by Vault. com showed that 86 percent of college students complete at least one internship. Many students hope to secure a full-time position with their co-op or intern-
ship employer upon graduation. According to Nancy C. Hutchison, director of cooperative education and career services at Cabrini College, 59 percent of graduating seniors who are in the co-op program are offered and accept full-time employment with the co-op employer. “There are no guarantees this
will happen for every student, this has happened for a good number of students because of the strong co-op program that Cabrini College has and our students are well prepared,” Hutchinson said. Amanda Finnegan, a senior English Communication major, interned at Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive, which is
owned by The Washington Post. Finnegan was asked to come back full time after graduation. In the competitive workforce that exists today more students are choosing to intern or participate in a co-op program to increase their chances of getting hired after graduation. Hutchison believes that students can make a
good impression with their co-op or internship employer by “doing above and beyond their job and that means doing what is assigned to them as effectively and efficiently as possible and asking what else they can do and
INTERNSHIPS, page 3