what is the demand?  

By the end of 2003, it was estimated that there were 143 million orphans in the world (Source: Unicef, Children on the Brink 2004, A Joint Report of New Orphan Estimates and a Framework for Action). AIDS, war & poverty have been identified as the major causes of children being orphaned.

There are an estimated 1.2 billion children (0-17) within Asia of which 87 million are orphans (or 7.3% of all children).

The number of orphans has been slowly, but steadily decreasing over the last 15 years as health care & delivery of this care has improved.  
 
Fig. 1 current estimates indicate that orphan numbers in Asia will have decreased to 80 million by 2010.  

        

Fig. 2 orphan numbers in Indonesia have been slowly but steadily decreasing & will have decreased to approximately 5 million by 2010.  
               

It should be noted that the projected number of future orphans in Asia & Indonesia assumes that the HIV/AIDS epidemic will not increase significantly by 2010. However, in some Asian countries with large populations (such as China , Indonesia , and Pakistan ), the HIV/AIDS epidemic has only recently begun. If the epidemics in these countries expand to the levels of countries such as Thailand and Cambodia , the number of children orphaned by AIDS could grow dramatically.

(All information sourced from: Unicef Children on the Brink 2004, A Joint Report of New Orphan Estimates and a Framework for Action)