Education Saves Lives- World AIDS Day
Education saves lives, the facts are over-whelming. By ensuring education, for girls in particular, you can completely change communities. Education is crucial for the survival of individual children and their entire communities. Educated girls lead to healthier families, in turn healthier communities. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa if a girl is educated, more often than not, she will: Delay sexual activity & have fewer partners: (girls with at least 8 years of school are 87% less likely to engage in sexual activity before they are...
read moreThe Joy of a Little Laughter
After meeting Elvis (refer to previous post) and seeing his desperate situation, we decided to dig deeper. What we found was information about his two youngest siblings, Austin and Clinton whose circumstances were even more critical. When we arrived they were on the floor in a pile of dirty clothes and rags, sitting in their own waste. Both were suffering from malnutrition. Clinton, 18 months old, was the size of a 6 month old. He had thinning, frazzled hair, and was underdeveloped in every way possible: he was not crawling, walking, or...
read moreHorrible Stats Become Reality
I KNOW the problems facing the majority of human beings across the globe… the health, economic, social, and emotional issues that I try to make people aware of -have very real consequences. In fact I see them all the time. However, a recent story of a woman I knew unfortunately followed every “pattern” that an impoverished, uneducated woman in the third world is at risk of falling into and she suffered the very real consequences of them. I would say cliché if it wasn’t so tragic. Pamela was a woman that didn’t get past a primary...
read moreA Boy Named Elvis
Elvis, not a name that you would expect to hear in a rural village in Kenya to be sure, but seems to fit him quite well. I met Elvis the first week of my trip in Kenya this summer. The Assistant Chief of Sirembe told us that we needed to meet Elvis and see how this 11 yr old boy was forced to live. We walked through various cornfields until we came upon his mud hut. Elvis was sitting and staring— with the most severe case of “jiggers” that I have ever seen—his grandmother was passed out on the ground next to him. “Jiggers” are...
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- Be part of the cure, education SAVES LIVES http://t.co/CtQO1hoY
(about 83 days ago) - It is World AIDS Day... you betta recognize!
(about 83 days ago) - "If every child received a complete primary education, at least 7 million new cases of HIV could be prevented in a decade."
(about 84 days ago)