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Two visitors from the impoverished African country brought their story to the college this week. They are teachers at Cabrini Ministries, an orphanage in Swaziland that serves 120 orphans. grade

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The visit is another step in building a partnership between the college and Cabrini Ministries, following the summer visit of some college faculty and president Marie George.

Teachers Sharon Singleton and Simo Mamba have lived their entire lives in a country where 40 percent of the country is infected with HIV/AIDS, the highest percentage in the world.

AIDS has left many children of Swaziland orphaned.

“Like the saying goes, if you are not infected with AIDS, you are affected, because somebody in your family will have died of AIDS or will have AIDS,” Singleton said.

Both Singleton and Mamba are employees of Cabrini Ministries at St. Philip’s Mission. Two Cabrini sisters, Sr. Barbara Staley and Sr. Diane DalleMolle, MSC, run a hostel for the orphaned children that provides educational, childcare and health care services.

According to Singleton and Mamba, the orphans attend public school outside of the hostel and continue their education at the hostels after school program.

Both the public school teaching staff along with the students speaks SiSwati as their first language and English as their second. Out of the seven subjects taught in public school, only one is taught in SiSwati.

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Numerous Cabrini students study abroad, mostly to the capitals of Europe, and some to Guatemala and Ecuador. This week however, two visitors have reversed the process to come from Africa to help us learn about their history, culture and lives.

Two employees of Cabrini Ministries in Swaziland, Africa left the continent for the first time in their lives to learn from the faculty and students at Cabrini College and more importantly, to teach us.

Sharon Singleton and Simo Mamba came to the college with plans to give us a glimpse of the life the people in Swaziland live. The small African nation is suffering from the AIDS epidemic with 40 percent of its population being infected. Swaziland is, in fact, the most infected country in the world.

As a result of these numbers, many of the children are left orphaned and vul-