Kami is a five-year-old HIV-positive girl Muppet orphaned by AIDS who always has the sniffles; she is yellow and shaggy in appearance.

Her backstory is that she contracted the disease as the result of a transfusion of tainted blood received as an infant; her mother also died of HIV/AIDS.

Kami illustrates to Takalani's viewers how to deal with loss and sad feelings in a way that three- to seven-year-olds can understand.

[3] Kami has appeared at the United Nations and at the World Bank and was interviewed by Katie Couric on NBC News.

Kami was named UNICEF's Champion for Children in November 2003[4] and has appeared in Takalani segments alongside Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton,[5] amongst others.