Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:56 PM EST
TORONTO (Reuters) - Christopher Wachira couldn't help but think of 9-year-old Hamisi Kombo as the names of 360 children, orphaned as a result of AIDS, were read out at Toronto's CN Tower on Thursday.
The Kenyan boy, who is HIV-positive, has seen his parents, and two subsequent sets of caregivers die from AIDS.
"He's being taken care of by his grandmother now," Wachira, a World Vision program manager in Kenya said as an international vigil to mark World AIDS Day on December 1 kicked off in Toronto.
The global vigil will feature the reading of the names of 6,000 orphans, symbolizing the number of children who lose a parent daily because of AIDS. From Toronto, the event moves westward to 17 cities around the globe, including San Salvador, Auckland, and Seoul before finishing in New York on Friday.
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