In an instant, the lives of every member of that family were ravaged forever. We are living in times that make us cry. I've been following news from Zambia. 90,000 children live on the streets of Zambia, most of them orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. More than half the 600,000 children of Zambia have lost at least one parent.
Death is so common that coffins are sold out of brightly colored vans parked alongside the roads.
The younger children living on the street find abandoned petrol or aerosol cans to sniff, trying to remain numb. Teenagers live in a state of constant drunkenness from a homemade beer and from smoking something called jekem, which is fermented human feces scraped from sewer pipes. They are an abandoned, lost generation, living dazed on the streets and dying in the sewers. We are living in times that make us cry. He had on jeans, a gold polo shirt, and black boots.