ok lets help these children out please
..Hi Y'all,
Went to Ethiopia to do AIDS work.
So: in a nutshell: Ethiopia is amazing and sad and
wonderful. I truly believe that it's the cradle of
civilization. Did good work, made wonderful friends
(y'all know what a shy little thang I am). These
friends turned me on to Ethipian Idol! Yup, that's
exactly what it is....
There is an article in the Outreach Magazine.
http://www.sfaf.org/outreach/2007_3/ethiopia.html
I'm not one of the "Here's the pics and EVERY detail
of my trip!!!" kind of guy.
That being said, I met an amazing woman and her kids
and told her I would try to help.
Have included pics.
Sometimes we watch the news or look around at the
world and are not always so glad to be a human.
Meeting this remarkable, lovely young woman made me
deeply proud to be of the same species.
She has adopted 15 kids with AIDS in Ethiopia . She
is Ethiopian but graduated from Emory U. in Atlanta
here. This is what she has chosen to do with her life.
She can’t even get basics there. The average life
expectancy HIV+ kids in Africa is approx. two years.
These kids range from 4-16 and she has gotten them all
on HIV meds. All but two are 4-9 years old. She needs
and deserves our help.
Any donations would be appreciated. Will be doing a
benefit for them during the summer. Have already sent
one package over and am sending more tomorrow. These
packages have things that are not available in
Ethiopia. *You might notice that in the picture with
her and the kids the medicine cabinets are empty.
That's what the packages are. Money goes a long way
there so am sending her checks for the rest. Even 5-10
bux will add up. You can make them out to 'abezash
tamerat'.
Here is the address:
Artsits for charity
childrens home project
abezash tamerat
2393 conyers ga
30094
Times could be better for a lot of folks these days so
if you can't help in that way you can also take a sec
to be grateful that we're on the same planet as
abezash. Maybe you'll even get to see Ethiopian Idol!!
It was bloody amazing.
Thanks as always.
Love ya,
Pauli
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