Title: Not Just a Number

Producer: Nik Newman, Ellen Rosenberg*

Region: South Africa, Africa

Length: 7:00

Issues: Children & Youth, Public Health, Tolerance

Description: This is a story of hope, a story which strives to open the eyes of the viewers across the world to a love which transcends continents, cultures and race. I work with an incredible woman called Rosie Mashale in Cape Town South Africa at Baphumelele Children's Home. The orphanage is home to about 120 kids who are either infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. 24 million is a figure I still struggle to wrap my head around. That's how many people have died so far from AIDs. And it's particularly bad in Africa. Now that I know each child well, that figure starts to gain some meaning as I try and put faces and names behind the statistics.