African Children Quotes

People have to realise you don't help African children singing along to 60-year-old men playing their tunes from 40 years ago.

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

There are 45 million children in Africa who are not in school. While other children are learning, exploring, and growing in the myriad ways that children were meant to grow, these children are trapped in a life of constant struggle. Without education, how can they be expected to escape such struggle? How can their children?

I'm talking to friends so we can do something to create awareness to try to help children in Africa.