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Last year, I wrote on this website about the importance of the world's HIV problem.
As World AIDS Day 2007 approaches, HIV still presents big problems: an estimated 40m people living with HIV/AIDS; the city where I live, London, has the UK's highest instances of HIV. And according to Stop AIDS Consortium, a coalition of 80 charities, around 70% of people who need anti-retroviral drugs to stay alive, don't have access to them.
There are also solutions. This year I travelled with Uganda with Christian Aid to see an amazing organisation called Youth With a Mission (YWAM) in action.
When I say action, they were doing everything. They showed me education projects where school kids learned about the risks of HIV, and how to avoid them.
The YWAM volunteers were dancing, singing and teaching - they even had me up dancing - and it was all for the greater good. To drum home the message to kids about HIV.
I met a man called Joseph Onongo, who was HIV positive, and his wife had left him YWAM had given him money and training to start his own brick-making business. Joseph was making a success of his life and his wife and kids had come back home when they saw how well he was doing. It's inspiring to see solutions to these kinds of problems.
There was ignorance in the community about the causes and effect of HIV and what it is, and YWAM fills a very basic need that is so vital. 1m in Uganda are living with HIV, and 100,000 of those people are under 15.
Knowledge is power. That means being one of the biggest factors in fighting HIV is education. We can prevent it ourselves, we can help educating young people, but often we leave it to others - what organisations like YWAM are doing is extremely important. We take education for granted and I saw for myself growing up in Nigeria how people struggle to pay school fees but once anything is given to you, you take it for granted. Perhaps sometimes in the western world, we can be a bit like that.
In Uganda, they don't receive anything like the education we do here. YWAM work against a climate where there's no education, what they provide is gold dust. They're like saviours. To see what they do is so amazing.
They're helping thousands of people. I met a 16 year-old called Emmanuel who had lost both parents to HIV and walked six miles each day so that his brother could go to school. YWAM were helping him.
On another trip with Christian Aid to Ethiopia, I saw the Adugna dance troupe who could have been backing dancers for Beyonce or someone like that. But their dancing had a serious purpose - it was encouraging young teenagers to find out about the causes of HIV.
HIV and AIDS present all of us with massive problems. But it was really encouraging to see some of the solutions in these education projects. And these projects which Christian Aid supports can teach us a fair few things, too.
World AIDS Day is on December 1st. For more information go to www.stopaidscampaign.org.uk and www.christianaid.org.uk |
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