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When Rosie Mashale moved to Cape Town, South Africa, she was alarmed to see children in her near her home scavenging for food. One day she invited some of them into her house. She fed them and sang rhymes with them. All of this eventually led to a free daycare center. After a decade of running the daycare she was going to retire when a naked boy with sores all over his body. She then started an orphanage for children who have lost one of both parents to AIDS. By the end of the year she was taking care of 67 children. Many of these children are not only orphans because of AIDS/HIV but have the illness themselves. Mama Rosie continues to help these children in need today.