Next Bono Clip
April 9th, 2008 at 8:48 pm | posted by Virginia Simmons
The next clip of Bono’s trip to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, aired. In it, Bono meets with Deloy, a 14-year-old boy who lost both of his parents to HIV/AIDS. Deloy shared his “memory box” with Bono, a small cardboard box decorated in wrapping paper in which he keeps mementos from his mother and father.
Deloy receives help from a wonderful health care facility in Dar es Salaam called PASADA, which is funded in part by America via contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Deloy wants to be a judge when he grows up.
Below and above, two photos from the trip.
-Virginia Simmons
April 9th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
There really are no words left that I have for Bono and his activism for Africa. Just when I think that I have seen it all and heard it all from him - he goes and shows me (and the rest of the world) another dimension of his all-encompassing Heart for Africa’s People.
Whether it is with Eusebia or with Deloy, Bono brings out the best in the people he talks with….and the worst in their everyday situations.
By drawing us into the humanity of the various people in Africa that he has met and befriended, Bono BUILDS A BRIDGE OF COMPASSION & CONCERN between those who listen to him and the people who are relying on him to tell their stories around the world.
And he does….and he does this masterfully. In so many ways, Bono truly is a “talking drum” for many of Africa’s poorest people who need someone with his tremendous capacity to feel their pain & worry and who is able to communicate their deepest hopes and dreams for the future to a worldwide audience.
This not the mushy nonsense of a starstruck fan. This is the well-reasoned and open-hearted confession of a woman who is Bono’s own age who has been a social activist for Africa longer than she’s been a U2 music fan….and as a person who has watched with amazement and with gratitude as this man has taken up the journey of a social activist for the world’s poorest and most destitute people.
I am thankful to God that Bono is in our world and that he has not only brought hope to millions of the world’s poor but has also mobilized millions of us on behalf of the world’s poor. ~
Rock stars are fine - especially when they make the sort of awesome music that U2 does. But Bono is something more than a Rock Star - he is a TRUE human being and world citizen. And it is that aspect of Bono that I celebrate every day.
THANK YOU, BONO, for everything.~
Please take very good care of yourself, dear man. Our world needs you here with us for as long as possible.
ONE HEART, ONE HOPE, ONE LOVE - debbie
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