From the "Granny Bulletin" - February 2022
Spotlight on
Community-based Responses
to Dual Pandemics
As we enter a third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and experience the fallout of global disruption and loss, our partners across sub-Saharan Africa continue to adapt their essential frontline work in HIV and AIDS.
In 2021, to help ensure they provided their communities with health care, security, and economic support during lockdowns and other restrictions, we equipped these vital organizations with flexible, emergency funds.
In 2021, to help ensure they provided their communities with health care, security, and economic support during lockdowns and other restrictions, we equipped these vital organizations with flexible, emergency funds.
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A "MUST READ"!
The untold story of AIDS in Africa
"…Powered By Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS In Africa"
Published by Goose Lane Editions
$35
"…Powered By Love: A Grandmothers’ Movement to End AIDS In Africa"
Published by Goose Lane Editions
$35
We thought we knew what was happening in Africa when the AIDS pandemic raged across the continent, sweeping away 35 million lives. But we never knew it the way this book reveals it, in the shockingly intimate voices of the grandmothers who stepped in to raise their orphaned grandchildren when no one else was left alive.
A dynamic movement of grandmothers rallied in response. Starting in Canada and spreading across the globe, it now encompasses thousands of grandmothers on several continents. Together, resolute grandmothers in Africa and around the world are reclaiming hope and courageously saving lives. Their voices will leap straight into your heart. Their unguarded faces, in portraits that glow with character, pain and humour, will captivate you.
In 2006, the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched a campaign to engage Canadian grandmothers to support African sisters. The Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, now a movement 10,000 strong, has raised over $25 million that has gone directly into the hands of African grandmothers and the grassroots organizations run by and for them at the frontlines of the AIDS pandemic.
Powered by Love reveals the compelling journey of these indomitable women and a movement that now reaches around the globe, sharing their story in their own words.
A dynamic movement of grandmothers rallied in response. Starting in Canada and spreading across the globe, it now encompasses thousands of grandmothers on several continents. Together, resolute grandmothers in Africa and around the world are reclaiming hope and courageously saving lives. Their voices will leap straight into your heart. Their unguarded faces, in portraits that glow with character, pain and humour, will captivate you.
In 2006, the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched a campaign to engage Canadian grandmothers to support African sisters. The Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, now a movement 10,000 strong, has raised over $25 million that has gone directly into the hands of African grandmothers and the grassroots organizations run by and for them at the frontlines of the AIDS pandemic.
Powered by Love reveals the compelling journey of these indomitable women and a movement that now reaches around the globe, sharing their story in their own words.