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Poem by a Double Joy Orphan |
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Written by David Zarembka
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Friday, 20 August 2010 07:51 |
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by Jared Ouma Jomo - age 10 years AIDS! AIDS! Who are you?
Are you a bird?
Are you an insect?
Are you a big squary animal?
What do you want from us?
AIDS OH AIDS! Leave us alone
AIDS! AIDS! Who are you?
Do you have ears and hear us cry?
Do you have a head or a heart?
Where are you coming from?
What colour are you?
AIDS OH AIDS! Leave us alone.
Double Joy is an orphanage in Nyanza Province on the shore of Lake Victoria. It was founded and is run by a retired English woman named, Mary Hinde. Her daughter, Crissie Hinde, is a Friend from Sheffield, England. The orphanage is "double" because it means that both parents must have died, many I suspect of AIDS. There are 90 orphans living there. Their latest newsletter included this poem, written by one of the orphans.
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Preventing Election Violence in Burundi |
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Written by David Zarembka,
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 04:48 |
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The Healing and Rebuilding
Our Communities program (HROC - pronounced HE-rock) in Burundi is in
the midst of an Election Violence Prevention Program for the five
elections
between May 21 and September 7. As part of a grant from the United
States
Institute of Peace, HROC has formed Democracy and Peace groups in nine
volatile
communities in four provinces of Burundi. Each group has 80
participants who have received the basic HROC workshop and follow-up
training to
unite disparate people into cohesive groups that will work together to
prevent
violence during the elections in their community. We have finished this
training
process and the participants are enthusiastic about working together,
even
perhaps at risk to themselves.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:01 |
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