Women living with AIDS in Africa face many difficulties, from generating a steady income to planning an uncertain future for their families—even to communicating with their families given the stigma of AIDS. This project, in giving skills for paper-making to 10 NACWOLA members who will train women in their own communities, will provide much-needed income. The paper will create Memory Books, which help children cope with losing a parent, and educate them on AIDS and its effects. Donate/learn more: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/papermaking/
Question: Thanks for coming and speaking at GW tonight, I really found your mix of a general perspective to take combined with practical follow up details very inspiring but also useful. You pointed me towards a few organizations made up of people that are similarly outraged...one was Transparency International as well as a few more related to corruption and helping countries transition out of former dictatorial periods. I'd really appreciate it if you could forward me those links. Thanks again, good luck with whatever direction you decide to invent your life in...
Met this awesome (and courageous) guy at my Columbia Law event. Interested in his story? Here are some ideas and resources for law students and others to face down some of the challenges he faced:
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
Interaction
Kimberly Process
Africa Commission (http://www.achpr.org/)
Mercy Corps
Clinton Foundation
Global Fund for Women
Africa Human Security Initiative
ABA Africa Division
Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor
Open Society Institute
Human Rights First
More Than Me Foundation
Transparency International
