Story of Maggie (HIV victim)
· Lives with grandmother in a small hut.
· Grandmother takes care of her after mother died of childbirth
· Father died of HIV. The mother was an HIV victim too.
· Maggie was infected with HIV since birth.
· Works at the gardens of the neighbour to earn money and food.
· Hut is starting to be frail and fragile.
· Maggie and grandma have to build a new one with lots of mud and hay.
· Halfway done, they stop to take a break and grandmother slips on mud and fall on her back.
· Taken to hospital by neighbour.
· Grandma weak and paralyzed.
· Maggie takes care of her for a few days.
· Grandmother dies eventually.
· Maggie has to fend for herself.
· Works all day and eats half a bowl of rice everyday.
· Months passed, she is all skin and bones, her body is too weak to do anything.
· Sees a man walking around the huts with the village translator and a few children she recognizes.
· Approaches Maggie, tells the translator to explain to her that he is from an organization called Global Fund and that he is collecting HIV child victims to send them to an HIV therapy institution.
· Maggie hesitates to join the rest of the children, but does eventually.
· Maggie goes to the institution, full of children just like her.
· Makes friends, learns that life isn’t just work and learning to survive, but to have fun while it lasts.
· Also learns that many in the world are HIV victims like her, and there is no cure.
· Takes antiretroviral drugs to reduce the amount of HIV in bloodstream.
· A few years later, Maggie volunteers to help other children that are victims of HIV.
· Living a happy life. Always sees the victims smiling and laughing.
· Months later, Maggie gets very weak.
· HIV takes over her body, and she is on the verge of death.
· Tells the man who brought her to the institution to tell the world her story, as she wants to inspire people.
· Maggie dies.
· Weeks later, her story is everywhere in the news. Posters everywhere, picture of her on billboards.
· People from all over the world get inspired to help HIV victims.
This has a great amount of detail which will help you with your writing. I look forward to reading the final piece. :-)
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