Rwanda has overcome and is overcoming so much.  Genocide. Poverty. AIDS.

Hundreds of kids in new schools.  Nurses facing the toughest conditions and believing, taking a stand in faith, against all odds.  People living with AIDS proclaiming that because of life-saving ARV drugs, they no longer live under a death sentence.

We started our day at the TRAC clinic in Kigali, filled with people coming to get voluntary counseling for AIDS, something made so much more likely when they know they’ll receive drugs and treatment that will help save their lives.  The lab to process the tests is right next door, funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.  The doctors and staff were incredible, earnest and devoted to helping their community.  The clinic is able to provide medicines and care because of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and we were able to see firsthand how America’s contributions to the Global Fund really do mean pills in people’s hands and lives saved.   

People like the small 2 year old child Bono met with at the clinic.   So small, so in need of help, help that now costs less than $1 a day.  Looking at this beautiful girl and the love of her family, a child’s life for less than $1 a day sounds like the best deal in town.