(Above) Cynthia, of Cynthia's Child Care and Counselling Centre Trust, gives a new pair of shoes to an orphan girl. Both are HIV positive.I have a project.
The very kind new librarian has introduced me to her friend, who runs Cynthia's Child Care and Counselling Centre Trust, a non-profit in memory of her sister who died of tuberculosis and AIDS. Cynthia was an incredible woman who won "Miss Stigma-Free", a beauty pageant for women living with HIV, and was going to be a keynote speaker at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto a few years ago. Her story is included in Stephanie Nolen's book 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa. Now, the new librarian and I are helping this woman with her non-profit. This is the woman we were going to go to a meeting with last night; however, we got to her house too late and were unable to go to the meeting, since it would have been a long way away and the people coming had walked there and needed to walk home before dark. Hopefully, we will be able to attend the rescheduled meeting in a couple of weeks.
This morning the woman from Alumni/Developement, the librarian, and I went out for brunch at a South African chain restaurant, News Cafe. The food was great, but we were a bit disturbed by the sugar packets; the white sugar had a photograph of a pale, Caucasian woman, and the brown sugar had a photo of a dark-skinned African model.
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