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For 11-year-old Montgomery Philip, childhood is over. Six months ago he would have been playing football with his schoolmates, but now his job is to care for his 10-month-old baby brother Jenkie.

The pair are both victims of Ebola. Not because they caught the disease, but because they live in Joeblow, Liberia, where the devastating outbreak has killed every mother in the village.

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The women died because social convention decrees it is they who tend to the sick and bury the dead. When a man brought Ebola to the village and passed it on to his wife, it was 14 mothers who cared for her and eventually laid out her body. One by one they caught the disease and died, leaving 15 children orphaned.

Chloe Brett, 28, from Norwich, England has been working with the British charity Street Child to try to find homes for the children left behind in the aftermath of the outbreak. “Seeing Montgomery struggle to change the baby’s nappy without any guidance is something that made me realize just how devastating this disease can be on those left behind,” she said. “He was a helpless 11-year-old having to become a man well before his time.