Around the world, AIDS has a child’s face. Some 15 million children
under 17 have lost one or both parents to the disease, the vast
majority in sub-Saharan Africa. These children, especially the girls,
must often leave school to earn money to care for their siblings and
the sick. They usually lack access to basic health care and are at
serious risk for exploitation, poverty and discrimination.

In Ethiopia, teens who have volunteered to become “advocates of hope”
are demonstrating what World AIDS Day really means by making a
difference in their communities. Fourteen teens were given digital
cameras for a week in August and asked to document their lives and ways
they were keeping the promise of fighting AIDS by caring for one
another, their families, their communities and themselves. Save the Children and ONE have teamed up to bring you a photobook from these children.