(Salim Yasin recites a poem on children orphaned by AIDS)

Poem by 7-year-old Salim Yasin from Pepo La Tumaini
Jangwani, Isiolo

Look what it has done to me
First it was my papa, then my mama followed
Both gone for a journey
A journey never to return.

Here I stand alone in the world
With nothing to call a family
With nowhere to call home
An orphan I have become
Yet I am so young

Now my future is so uncertain
But I weep for you
I weep for us
Weep for us
Who are busy killing the future
Creating a generation of AIDS orphans.