Comments on: Real Stories About PEPFAR http://www.one.org/blog/2008/07/16/real-stories-about-pepfar/ The Campaign to Make Poverty History Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:23:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Debbie K http://www.one.org/blog/2008/07/16/real-stories-about-pepfar/#comment-547682 Debbie K Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:24:06 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/07/16/real-stories-about-pepfar/#comment-547682 The Senate has just started their consideration of the PEPFAR re-authorization bill (Lantos-Hyde Act). I am sitting at my computer, listening to the debate via the Internet, and I am frozen with concern. What happens to the hundreds of thousands of mothers in Africa who have been granted another chance at life with a future if PEPFAR is not re-authorized? What can we say to those mothers....and the children that they will leave behind? Children just like these young people in this post - REAL CHILDREN, REAL PEOPLE whose lives can either be transformed for the good - or for the worse. Thank you for this post and for the stories of these young people's lives. Thank you for their beautiful, hopeful, smiling faces. I hope that we do not let these children and MILLIONS of their contemporaries "down". I pray that PEPFAR is simply re-authorized. When all is said and done, it comes down to this - will we STAND UP FOR LIFE? Will we STAND UP FOR PEPFAR? We shall soon see what the Senate does. Thank you all AS ONE for putting up a strong defense for PEPFAR. May we always carry each other.~ ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie :) www.mpwn-uganda.org The Senate has just started their consideration of the PEPFAR re-authorization bill (Lantos-Hyde Act). I am sitting at my computer, listening to the debate via the Internet, and I am frozen with concern.

What happens to the hundreds of thousands of mothers in Africa who have been granted another chance at life with a future if PEPFAR is not re-authorized?

What can we say to those mothers….and the children that they will leave behind?

Children just like these young people in this post - REAL CHILDREN, REAL PEOPLE whose lives can either be transformed for the good - or for the worse.

Thank you for this post and for the stories of these young people’s lives. Thank you for their beautiful, hopeful, smiling faces.

I hope that we do not let these children and MILLIONS of their contemporaries “down”. I pray that PEPFAR is simply re-authorized.

When all is said and done, it comes down to this - will we STAND UP FOR LIFE? Will we STAND UP FOR PEPFAR?

We shall soon see what the Senate does.

Thank you all AS ONE for putting up a strong defense for PEPFAR. May we always carry each other.~

ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE - debbie :)
www.mpwn-uganda.org

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