Comments on: The Food Crisis: Implications for AIDS Orphans http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/28/the-food-crisis-implications-for-aids-orphans/ The Campaign to Make Poverty History Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:46:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Debbie K http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/28/the-food-crisis-implications-for-aids-orphans/#comment-537944 Debbie K Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:24:41 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/28/the-food-crisis-implications-for-aids-orphans/#comment-537944 Once again, thank you Simon for posting this info here in the ONE Blog. It is very much appreciated. I think sometimes in all our enthusiasm for ONE and our movement to make extreme poverty history, the people that we are advocating for seems to slip from a lot of our memories. While we gp about our daily lives, there literally are MILLIONS of people suffering & dying from AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa - no less the 12.1 million AIDS orphaned children in Africa. I must admit that I found out about your activities for these children a little too late this year to have had the time to put together an event locally in my area. But now that I'm aware of this day and your website, I will continue to keep in contact with your efforts so that next year I will be more than just a bystander and a cyberactivist for World AIDS Orphans Day but an active participant. I will mention the plight of our world's AIDS orphans when I speak at our local (Austin TX) observance of the GHC's Candlelight Memorial Service on 18 May. It's the least that I can do. Take very good care, Simon. Blessings always for all your efforts for "the least of these". ALWAYS ONE in the Spirit, debbie :) www.mpwn-uganda.org Once again, thank you Simon for posting this info here in the ONE Blog. It is very much appreciated.

I think sometimes in all our enthusiasm for ONE and our movement to make extreme poverty history, the people that we are advocating for seems to slip from a lot of our memories.

While we gp about our daily lives, there literally are MILLIONS of people suffering & dying from AIDS and extreme poverty in Africa - no less the 12.1 million AIDS orphaned children in Africa.

I must admit that I found out about your activities for these children a little too late this year to have had the time to put together an event locally in my area.

But now that I’m aware of this day and your website, I will continue to keep in contact with your efforts so that next year I will be more than just a bystander and a cyberactivist for World AIDS Orphans Day but an active participant.

I will mention the plight of our world’s AIDS orphans when I speak at our local (Austin TX) observance of the GHC’s Candlelight Memorial Service on 18 May.

It’s the least that I can do.

Take very good care, Simon. Blessings always for all your efforts for “the least of these”.

ALWAYS ONE in the Spirit, debbie :)
www.mpwn-uganda.org

]]> By: andrea useem http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/28/the-food-crisis-implications-for-aids-orphans/#comment-537939 andrea useem Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:33:35 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/28/the-food-crisis-implications-for-aids-orphans/#comment-537939 Thanks for this post -- it's so tragic to think about how people who are already struggling to survive must now cope with rising food prices. For an intimate portrait of one 34-year-old Kenyan who has waged a lifelong battle with poverty, see: http://www.religionwriter.com/faith-life/catholics/faith-hope-and-poverty-a-story-from-kenya/ Thanks for this post — it’s so tragic to think about how people who are already struggling to survive must now cope with rising food prices. For an intimate portrait of one 34-year-old Kenyan who has waged a lifelong battle with poverty, see:

http://www.religionwriter.com/faith-life/catholics/faith-hope-and-poverty-a-story-from-kenya/

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