Memory Books

Memory Books
Books filled with photos and details of a family’s history.

In an extraordinary photo essay for the BBC, Kate Holt of HelpAge International illustrated how an N.G.O. in Uganda is helping people ensure that their family history is not lost to Aids or old age:

Parents in Africa often do not leave behind photo albums or diaries when they die, due to the continent’s strong oral traditions, as well as poverty. But for children orphaned very young, this makes it difficult to find out their family history.
More than a million children in Uganda have been orphaned by Aids. Many of them now live with their grandparents.
The elderly grandparents and HIV-positive parents are being taught how to write a “memory book” so they can pass on their family history and traditions to the children, before they become too ill and die.
According to Holt, the memory book scheme is also teaching people how to write wills, so that their children and grandchildren can defend their property rights.


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