ALISON HEADS EAST: Week 19

Monday, January 28, 2008

Week 19

This was the last week of WHE project work and Meaghan and I had an incredible experience working with the Yogurt Mamas and the Mwanza community. It was definitely difficult to say goodbye to the group but Meaghan and I are extremely encouraged that the yogurt project will be sustainable in the near future and will continue to expand and help more HIV and AIDS patients. The Mwanza community will continue to greatly benefit from the support of the University of Western Ontario and I am very thankful to be given the opportunity to be a part of this amazing project.
This week was really busy wrapping up project work and preparing for my mom to arrive. It was very busy but also really productive. Over the next few weeks we were able to organize how the new land would be purchased, confirm our TASAF application, rewrite the constitution for the NGO application, extend my Visa, and Meaghan’s family donated money to buy the Kitchen a new fridge.
I said goodbye to Meaghan and welcomed my mom to Mwanza. We began our journey throughout Tanzania, Uganda and London, England for the next month. I hope you enjoy the photos and you can contact me with any question you may have about my trip.

Dinner at our house with the Mamas

At the airport saying goodbye to Meaghan

Welcome to Mwanza Mom

No comments:

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Quotes

"We will not achieve progress against HIV until women gain control of their sexuality." — Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, director-general, WHO
"Faced with unwanted sex with a husband who has HIV, a woman with no financial independence has two choices. She can either leave and starve today, or choose to stay with a roof over her head, putting off death for a few more years." - Judy Thongori
"The toll on women and girls is beyond human imagining. The practice of ignoring gender analysis has turned out to be lethal. For the African continent it means economic and social survival. For the women and girls of Africa, it’s a matter of life and death." - Stephen Lewis
"Years from now people will ask about AIDS in Africa — as with the Holocaust or the Rwandan genocide — ‘How could the world have known — and failed to act?’" - Africa Action
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
’Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.’ - Stephen Lewis
’ Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you’re never going to defeat this pandemic.’ - Stephen Lewis
’if women’s sexuality in Africa wasn’t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren’t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn’t have a pandemic.’ - Stephen Lewis