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Yolanda Xola
Age: 19
Home: Khayelitsha township, South Africa
Nineteen-year-old Yolanda Xola opens up her home, which she shares with her mother, sister and four uncles in Khayelitsha township, South Africa. When she leaves school she’d like to work as a social worker to help people with HIV. She wants to make her mother proud and make a change with her life.
Filed in: Africa, Child Rights

South African townships

During apartheid, millions of non-white people were evicted from their homes and forced to move to controlled townships, like Khayelitsha
Khayelitsha township is about 30 miles from Cape Town and has a population of at least 500,000
Overall South Africa’s under-five mortality rate is 59 per 1,000 live births, but the rate for black infants (63) is four times higher than that of white (15)
More than one in five adults are HIV positive and there are an estimated 600 deaths every day from HIV-related illnesses

Filed in: Africa, Child Rights

South Africa

South Africa
population: 46.9 million
population living on under $2 a day: 34.1%
secondary school enrolment: 66%