Welcome to the Cradle Project, an Art Activist site dedicated to ancreasing awareness about orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa. The site attempts to put abstract issues of human experience into perspective by juxtaposing equivalent statistics from The US and Sub-Saharan Africa. Consider the following statistics: There are 48 million orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa today 12 Million of those children are orphaned due to AIDS 84 Million children in sub-saharan Africa are not enrolled in school The human side of the numbers