Ich sterbe, aber die Erinnerung lebt

Remembrance aid for African orphans "Nothing since the cave drawings of the Stone Age people has been as moving as these books of dying parents for their children. Elke Heidenreich "It's been two weeks since Aida showed me where she hid her mango plant a few miles north of Kampala in Uganda." - Aida's mother will die of AIDS soon. But Aida is planting a mango tree as a symbol of life. And from her mother she gets a memory book... Henning Mankell has travelled to Uganda to talk to AIDS patients and their relatives. Development workers support the parents in writing memory books for their children: Memory books, small notebooks with pictures and texts glued in. After all, what can children tell about their parents if they were too young to remember them when they died? How are young orphans supposed to find out who you.