![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, it is Haregewoin Teferra who gives a human face to the havoc AIDS has wreaked on an entire continent. This month, Bloomsbury has published Greene's fourth book of nonfiction, "There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children." Greene, who has twice seen her work nominated for the National Book Award, is not the titular woman. Since that Sunday morning, she and her husband have adopted two Ethiopian orphans, with two more on the way. These questions sent Greene, now 53, on a journey as both an adoptive parent and a journalist. Admitting that she and her attorney husband in Atlanta were being driven cheerfully "insane" by their five kids, Greene asked, "Who will offer grief counseling to 12, 15, 18, 36 million children? Who will help them avoid lives of servitude or prostitution? Who will pass on to them the traditions of culture and religion, of history and government, of craft and profession? Who will help them grow up, choose the right person to marry, find work, and learn to parent their own children?" After reading an article in the New York Times estimating that more than 12 million children in sub-Saharan Africa had lost parents to AIDS - and that by 2010 those figures were expected to rise to between 25 million and 50 million - Greene wondered who was going to raise 12 million children. For Melissa Fay Greene, the enormity of the AIDS orphan crisis in Africa became impossible to ignore one Sunday morning in August 2000. ![]()
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