Friday, May 8, 2009

World AIDS Orphans Day

I tend to be a bit late on getting things on my blog, but yesterday, May 7, was World AIDS Orphans Day.

15 million children, orphaned by AIDS worldwide.

Rich Stearns, President of World Vision, US said,

"I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation. I look at my parents and ask, where were they during the civil rights movement? I look at my grandparents and ask, what were they doing when the holocaust in Europe was occurring with regard to the Jews, and why didn't they speak up? And when we think of our great, great, great-grandparents, we think how could they have sat by and allowed slavery to exist? And I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?"

Please take the time to go read this wonderful post here.

1 comment:

Jodi Queenan Artist copyright 2011 said...

Thanks for sharing.... I like your updated photos and the baby carrier.... very cute