An anthropologist proposed a game to children of an African Tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the kids that the first one to reach the fruit would win them all. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then sat together enjoying the fruits. When asked why they ran like that, as one could have taken all the fruit for oneself they said, "Ubuntu, how can one of us be happy if all the others are sad? "Ubuntu is a philosophy of African tribes that can be summed up as "I am because we are".
African AIDS Foundation is proud to partner with African communities who share what little they have to assist the whole community. This in evident as they care for child headed households and assist people with AIDS maintain their medication and look after them when they are sick.
I retired from Anglican Aid, the Sydney Anglican Diocese's overseas relief and development arm in April 2022 and then spent six months in Tanzania working in the Diocese of Musoma at the invitation of the bishop. I am essentially assisting with capacity building across various areas of the diocese.. In 2023 I led a tourof 18 Australians who visited and observed the work of the church in the Mara Region - three dioceses - Mara, Tarime and Rorya.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
African AIDS foundation was established in response to the AIDS pandemic in Africa. In Australia and other developing countries, depression is a major source of people attending medical practitioners. This video is a light hearted look at the problems faced by us in the developed world and is shared with you to put into perspective the problems we have compared to those in the developing world.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
While we in the developed world consider ourselves to be struggling consider the above stats. In Australia most people including those dependant on assiatnce from government and social servie agencies are in the top 10% of the world's richest people by income. If you live in Sydney and own a house you are likely close to the top 1% of the wealthiest people on the planet (that is 70,000,000 people who comprise 1% of the world population).
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