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Flying
in Africa in small missionary planes like the Cessna described
here
isn’t always as comfortable as jet travel is here in America.
Those small planes can really be tossed around by updrafts
of warm air as they fly over canyons and ridges.
I remember some flights I took while in Ethiopia that
made me feel like I was on a monster roller-coaster. Although
I don’t get motion sick easily, it took me a full day
to recover from one of those particularly turbulent flights.
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Neither words nor statistics can capture the human tragedy of the AIDS epidemic that is threatening to wipe out an entire generation in South Africa. The needs are staggering, but through support from friends like you, SIM’s home-based care program has been able to send a Positive Ray of hope to thousands whose lives have been devastated by AIDS.
Yet Project Positive Ray’s home-based
care ultimately only treats the symptoms
and not the cause. To help stem the
spread of the disease, especially among
South Africa’s youth, Project
Positive Ray has now placed full-time
teachers into two community schools
to teach the truth about HIV and AIDS
and how to avoid infection. |
Students in
South Africa are eager to learn the
truth about the HIV/AIDS epidemic
that has devastated their communities. |
Each week, these teachers interact with about 1,700 students in these schools, teaching life skills and behaviors from a Christian perspective. Their message of saving sexual activity for marriage is particularly important in South Africa where it is not at all uncommon for girls in their early teens to be dropping out of school to care for their newborn babies.
Our prayer is that through this program, young people will heed the prevention messages they hear and help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS in their generation.
Project Number - 97488
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