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Most Recent Work
We will publish the center's most recent work here. You will find document links for the various world wide conference agendas, speeches, descriptions of work, and pictures.
Namakkal, India, and visiting with a child-headed household, due to both parents dying of HIV and AIDS. Thanks to help provided by the Center for the Church and Global AIDS, these children get some assistance through the Women and Children's Center run by N. M. Samuel, M.D. Dr. N. M. Samuel's Women and Children's Center, stands on a busy street corner in Namakkal, India. Impoverished women, children and youth come for urgently needed health care. The staff introduced me to a child-headed household. Three young children had been recently orphaned because of AIDS. Now they live in a little cement-block home built for them by five United Methodist women from LaVeta, Colo.
The malnourished 15-year-old boy, Siva, works 10 hours a day cleaning eggs with formaldehyde liquid. He is trying to pay off his father's 5,000 rupee debt, as well as earn money for food to feed the family. His 12-year-old sister, Gomathi, suffering from tuberculosis, cooks and cleans and has to leave for school by 7 every morning. Together they care for their 8-year-old HIV-positive brother, Murugan. Since it was Murugan's birthday, we brought a cake complete with candles. As I sang "Happy Birthday," tears streamed down my face. I was invited to offer a prayer, blessing the little home. I then flipped on the electricity, and a little small light bulb (with mosquitos perched on it) provided dim light for one corner. What joy and squeals of laughter, as I cried! I thanked God for these courageous children struggling to survive and for all those unknown loving Christians who are joining everywhere to battle HIV and AIDS, bringing hope and light to the world. A FEW PICTURES
Asia/Pacific International AIDS Conference
Locations: Bali, Indonesia
August 4th - 12th, 2009
Dalit School Supply and Backpack Distribution
Locations: Dalit Villages, India
Julie White - Center for Church and Global AIDS
June 2009
About the Program: Pictures and Write up
Recap of Dalit Distribution: Pictures and Write up
