+Grassroots: Winter 2009
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“ Cover”
A DAR WELCOME Read about our exciting Turning the Tide Campaign and learn more about how your contributions are sustaining GRASSROOTS organizations in Africa. © Gillian Mathurin / SLF You can use your mouse to zoom in and out of articles, create and print your own PDF, search the newsletter text ...
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“ Message from Stephen Lewis” (page 2)
MESSAGE FROM STEPHEN LEWIS change that had occurred in such a short period of time. At their outset, the projects struggled. They were beset by such intense ill- ness, poverty and episodes of despair as to defy the possibility of success. Grandmothers and orphans together limped from day to day....
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“ A Dare to Remember” (page 3)
A DARE TO REMEMbER: DO A DARE FOR AFRICA SIGN uP FOR A DARE, DARE A FRIEND AND SPREAD THE WORD... Sign up today! Doing a dare is simple: 1. Pick your dare. (Can’t think of an idea? See page 5 or try our online dare generator!) 2. Sign up to do your dare at adaretoremember.com Can’t set up your p...
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“ Featured Dares: What You Can Do” (page 4)
FEATuRED DARES: WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING H ere are just a few examples of the amazing dares that people are taking on as part of A Dare to Remember. What will your dare be? Andrew Silbiger’s family dared him to clean up his Toronto, ON basement dur- ing the Dare week. If he doesn’t, he’ll have to p...
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“ Our Work” (page 6)
OuR WORK Turning the tide of HIV and AIDS in Africa WHAT WE DO The Stephen Lewis Foundation supports community- based organizations working to turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Since 2003, we have funded more than 300 projects in 15 countries. These grassroots groups are the lifeline for thei...
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“ Phoebe Education Fund for Orphans (PEFO)” (page 7)
PHOEbE EDuCATION FuND FOR ORPHANS (PEFO) JINJA, uGANDA to set up self-esteem clubs for the children, then to pay for school fees, uniforms and food. PEFO is now support- ing more than 300 orphans and vulnerable children — and 200 grannies who care for them — and Justine happily reports “They hav...
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“ Blue Roof Wellness Centre” (page 8)
bLuE ROOF WELLNESS CENTRE DuRbAN, SOuTH AFRICA T o read about the Blue Roof Wellness Centre, the clinic out- side Durban that was founded by Keep A Child Alive South Africa just three years ago to serve the desperately poor and highly HIV- affected local population, it might sound like any other...
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“ St. Francis Health Care Centre” (page 9)
ST. FRANCIS HEALTH CARE CENTRE JINJA, uGANDA She worked with St. Francis to con- vene a meeting of 300 grandmothers to learn what they most needed and wanted. No surprise there: beyond the urgent daily necessities (food, bedding, clothes), the grandmothers wanted secondary education for their gr...
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“ Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust” (page 10)
HILLCREST AIDS CENTRE TRuST HILLCREST, SOuTH AFRICA provides. Indeed, caregivers in the new 24-bed Respite Unit for the critically ill are required to spend two days and a night in the Unit before beginning their jobs, in order to develop empathy. Hillcrest, at 17 years of age, has become so dyn...
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“ Voices from the Frontlines: Jessica Horn” (page 11)
VOICES FROM THE FRONTLINES: JESSICA HORN AN INTERVIEW WITH JESSICA HORN, SLF FIELD REPRESENTATIVE bASED IN SIERRA LEONE SLF: What strikes you most in your work as a field representative? JH: When you go to visit community groups, you’re bearing witness both to the suffering that’s there but also...
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