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Written by Elizabeth Karanja
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 |
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 Sitting in the humid air inside a tent, listening to the palm leaves sway and the support poles creak, and with her hand clasped on her cheek, Zainabu can still hear the words ringing in her head:
“You have been tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the micro-organism that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).”
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Written by World Vision ACT:S
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 |
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 People don't get as excited about ending malaria as they do about fighting AIDS or stopping child slavery—and yet malaria kills 2,000 children every day, most of them under the age of 5. Malaria is a silent catastrophe, a disaster that is not constantly broadcast on TV, even though it kills so many. In the United States, we eradicated malaria in 1951—but more than 250 million people in the poorest parts of the world are infected every year.
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Written by Shannon Kozee and Adam Smith
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010 |
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 When Doc Hendley moved from Boone, N.C., to Darfur to serve as an aid worker, he learned about and experienced unspeakable atrocities, not the least of them being the desperate need for clean water. Hendley felt he needed to act to provide the people of Darfur with the clean water they lacked. Hendley formed Wine To Water, an organization that doesn't just provide water to people in developing nations, but provides them with the means to solve their own water crisis in a sustainable way.
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Written by Adam Phillips
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
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Meet a woman named Agnes. Agnes is a mother living with HIV/AIDS in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, in east Africa.
It has been more than a decade since she lost her husband, Augustine, and youngest child, Christopher, to AIDS. Another son, Charles, ran away from home to escape the stigma of his disease-ridden family.
But Agnes is not defined by victimhood; not even close. Agnes is much more than an AIDS survivor—she’s an AIDS savior.
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Written by Collins Kaumba and Rachael Boyer
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 |
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Violet Nkandu, 32, is a widow and a mother of six: four girls and two boys. Nkandu’s husband, who was the father of her first five children, died in 2000. In the years after her husband died, Nkandu was often sick and went to the hospital frequently. She didn’t know she was HIV positive until she became severely ill in 2007 and was tested for the virus. She needed to start anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment immediately, but it wouldn’t be an instant fix. It would take time for her immune system to recover.
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