T-1 Day Until ONE on Idol
April 8th, 2008 at 7:14 pm | posted by Virginia SimmonsJust wanted to highlight a comment that ONE member Valentina Benson just left on my post about Idol featuring ONE tomorrow night.
Below her comments, also find a new photo of Bono from his recent trip Tanzania. Footage from the trip will air on Idol Gives Back on Wednesday night.
Valentina Benson Says:
WOW, this is going to be amazing! SOOO excited that Bono is able to touch the lives of hundreds of thousands of people on this issue. Think of all the young people who will give to this cause throughout thier lifetimes because of this…I got to ask hime a personal question after his speech in Philly on 10/21/05 and I think of his response daily. I asked, “How can I teach my students (5th grade) about the issues in Africa,’ Bono replied, “Make it an adventure, NOT a burden.” Well AMERICAN IDOL GIVES BACK is definitely an adventure.
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[photo caption: Caption is: Bono, U2 lead singer and co-founder of The ONE Campaign and Product (RED), in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Eusebia Chilipwele, a former nurse and grandmother who now volunteers full-time providing home-based care to adults and orphans living with HIV/AIDS. Eusebia lost three of her own children to AIDS and now looks after 7 family members, in addition to her work in the community. The health care facility with which Eusebia works, PASADA, is funded in part by America, via contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and PEPFAR.]
April 8th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Thanks for the picture of Bono in Tanzania, Virginia, with this very lovely and courageous woman, Eusebia.
When the first picture and info on Bono’s segment for tomorrow night’s “AI” show first appeared in the ONE Blog, I immediately went to work to filter that info through several U2 fansites. It’s nice to see that there was a response to my posts here which you have highlighted.
Less than 24 hours to go!
Take very good care, everyONE. Blessings - not just for those who kneel.
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie
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April 9th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
i just want to say that i am very frustrated when i watch all of the impoverished orphans of aids in africa on your show. i am desperately trying to adopt a child. i began the adoption process by inquiring about adopting from Ethiopia. it costs $18000 to do that. i am a single woman who is self employed teaching art to elementary school children. I cannot afford to pay $18000 to adopt a child. i cannot start that childs life in my family with a debt so huge. but here i am, childless, able and extremely willing to give a child a new life, and here i watch all of these children with no families on tv. but there is nothing that can be done for either of us. you ask me for a donation, and i want to give the ultimate donation: a home and a new life. but my hands are tied because of the extremely high cost of the adoption. is there anything american idol can do about making adopting from africa more possible for people like me?? could american idol sponser an adoption?? i will give my whole life to share with one of these children, but as things stand, i remain childless, and those children remain motherless.
Heather Sotack