Thursday, May 28, 2009
World Vision -- Acting on AIDS
I got my packet from Acting on AIDS/World Vision last night. Oh my goodness! It makes me so sad that people really live like this, but at the same time I'm so excited for what we're doing with AoA. It's amazing to think that a simple fundraising project like buying a t-shirt can improve the quality of life for people across the world. I'm definitely guilty of getting so caught up in my own life and what is happening to me that I forget that not everyone lives the way I do; it's especially hard living in Athens and being surrounded by UGA. I get caught up in GPA, friends, family, work, and a million other things that I unintentionally block out problems that don't directly affect me. I've added in one of the AoA videos from youtube for y'all to take a look. It is definitely a powerful video.
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I think you would really enjoy this class I took last semester. Its ALDR 4710, International Agricultural Development, and a HUGE portion of the class is dedicated to learning about how the spread of diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria affect agriculture in third-world countries. It's a hard class (lots of reading you have to do) but I learned a lot from it.
ReplyDeleteAlso the Millenium Development Goals put out by the UN might be interesting to you as well, that's where a lot of the info we learned in class came from for the topic.