In partnership with World Hope International, approximately 300 of our 1300 students were given these shirts to wear to represent the percentage of young adults living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
Today there were presentations by Paul Shea, Jon Arensen, and Aaron Adkins on various topics relating to HIV/AIDS. I went to Aaron's session where he focused on the impact on children, specifically orphan and abandonment rates. Tomorrow Joanne Lyons, Director of World Hope will be speaking in chapel on the subject.
Props to student life and World Hope for the awareness campaign this week. It has sparked many conversations among my friends, I know. For all of our affluence, indifference seems to be one of the West's biggest problems. We can't simply use our resources to throw money at humanitarian crises without considering the methodology we're reinforcing. People need to actually CARE about these issues in order for things to change. Even then, it takes years. Awareness and ongoing discussion seem to be some logical first steps.
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