Swaziland

Swaziland has been on my mind over the last 6 or 9 months. Somehow I know that is where I will end up for a while in some capacity. Swazi is part of the reason that I'm still lamenting a bit over the fact that I'm not going this year. Not all the time...just every once in a while. But then I'm reminded of all the good things God has going right now....so I can wait on His timing. Regardless, I still ache and daydream for Swaziland.

Here are the Swaziland facts in a recent article:

One in three Swazi women have suffered some form of sexual abuse as a child; one in four experienced physical violence, a new United Nations survey revealed.

The study by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is the first of its kind conducted in a country where anecdotal evidence suggests an alarming number of female children are victims of abuse. More disconcertingly still, the mushrooming population of orphans and vulnerable children in Swaziland provide yet more opportunities for sexual exploitation to occur.


In two years, 200,000 Swazi children will have been orphaned by AIDS - more than one-fifth of the current population, according to UNICEF. With HIV prevalence at 33.4 percent among people aged between 15 and 49, the country has the world's highest infection rate. As a result, life expectancy has halved from nearly 60 years in the 1990s to just over 30 years today.

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Someday I'll make it to Swazi as a nurse Lord willing...