Stephen Lewis is the founder and board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. He is a professor at Ryerson and McGill University. He is also the co-founder and co-director of an AIDS-free World in the US. Stephen Lewis was the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from June 2001 to 2006. Lewis was Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF at the organization’s global headquarters in New York from 1995 to 1999. He was Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988. Although Stephen Lewis never finished university, he was always active in politics. Lewis was the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from 1970-1978, which is when he became leader of the Official Opposition. In 2003 Stephen Lewis was awarded a …show more content…
Companion of the Order of Canada, which is Canada’s highest honour for lifetime achievement. He has tirelessly spoken on and promoted help for those with HIV/AIDS in Africa. However, he doesn’t just observe and talk to others about this issue. He set up the Stephen Lewis Foundation that funds grassroots solutions to help those affected by AIDS. He works to get AIDS medicine to Africa at a cheaper price, and has written a book called Race against Time that discusses the difficulties of getting affordable drugs to those in Africa with HIV/AIDS and saving their lives. The drugs are there, but the companies that make them won’t allow them to be sold for a price that most Africa people can afford. On January 4, 2003, Stephen Lewis first proposed the idea of the crisis of HIV/AIDS in sub-Sahara Africa in an interview published by the Globe and Mail newspaper.
The Stephen Lewis Foundation provides care for women suffering from HIV/AIDS, assists orphans and other children affected by AIDS, supports grandmothers caring for orphaned grandchildren, and supports groups of people living with HIV/AIDS. More specifically, the foundation provides education and counseling about HIV prevention, care and treatment; distributes food, medication and other necessities; provides holistic home-based care for the very sick; helps children orphaned by AIDS gain access to education and cope with their grief; and support the grandmothers, who are overwhelmingly the caregivers for their orphaned grandchildren. The extent of the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is shocking: more than 24.5 million cases of HIV/AIDS, 76% of those newly infected between the ages of 15 and 24 are women, 2 million die of this disease a year, and there are more than 12 million orphans as a result of AIDS. The Stephen Lewis Foundation supports grassroots projects in Africa, such as co-operatives and community gardens run by grandmothers or children in areas where the parent generation is wiped out. These projects run on very small amounts of money but make a big difference to their …show more content…
communities. HIV/AIDS had struck household-to-household in Africa.
Death, impoverishment, discrimination and suffering were the effects of this pandemic. However, in response, grassroots organizations have been providing multiple forms of assistance such as healthcare, education, income generation, and emotional and psychological well being. This together has been helping individuals and communities recover from their devastating losses significantly. Before the foundation had even been officially established it had already been responded to by financial donations. The donations totaled $275,000 by the time the first cheques were mailed out for projects in June 2003. Currently the foundations website cites that it has disbursed over $80 million to more than 1100 initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa, including Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. With enough resources, the Stephen Lewis Foundation is providing lasting change across the African continent. However we cannot accomplish all that we need to do without working together. It is eminent that it takes a community to make a difference, but when dealing with an issue as big as this, it takes the global village. Whether we are directly effected by the problem or not, we have the responsibility as humans to respond and help. We cannot simply shrug our shoulder because it is a difficult issue and occurring
far away from us. As Helen Keller said, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”
Also a more recent example of aid through CAFOD is the “MAKE POVERTY HISTORY” campaign supported by many celebrities, so far this campaign has resulted debt cancellation, more aid, and has gathered many new campaigners and supporters of CAFOD. Another way that CAFOD helps is through its disaster fund. This fund was created to help if there is an natural disaster and for refugees. This means sending food, antibiotics, blankets, and shelters. This fund has been helpful for the flood victims in Bangladesh in 1995, the
Lionel Colin Matthews, 1912-1944, a soldier and salesman… Matthews was the third born of plumber, Edgar Roy Matthews and his wife Ann Elizabeth, who raised him in Stepney, Adelaide. He was a public school student educated at East Adelaide Public and a number of Norwood High schools. Matthews then went off to become a salesman in a department store. He was an outstanding swimmer resulting in him being a lifesaver, an ‘Assistant scoutmaster (from 1931)’ in the 1st Kensington Sea Scouts, and was a ‘good amateur boxer’ .
“Good stories often introduce the marvelous or supernatural and nothing about Story has been so often misunderstood as this.”
There are many areas of the world where the most basic needs like clean drinking water, proper sanitation and medical care are just not available. When disaster strikes, the people living in these already disadvantaged areas are thrust into situations where death is almost always imminent. Reach Out WorldWide (“ROWW”) was started by a group of 6 men in California. They flew to Haiti and volunteered to help in whatever way they could after a massive earthquake devastated the country on January 12, 2010. While working in Haiti as medical aid volunteers, the group recognized the need for skilled people, supplies and urgency for a faster response when natural disasters strike.
In response to the recent failure of the international community to prevent the famine crisis in the Horn of Africa since July 2011, Suzanne Dvorak the chief executive of Save the Children wrote that, “We need to provide help now. But we cannot forget that these children are wasting away in a disaster that we could - and should - have prevented” she added, “The UN estimates that every $1 spent in prevention saves $7 in emergency spending.” (Dvorak, 2011).
The Stephen Lewis Foundation was created in 2003 when Lewis was starting to gain global attention from speaking on the crisis of HIV/AIDS occurring in sub-Sahara Africa. HIV/AIDS is a detrimental problem in Africa, as it does not only affect one person but whole families. The passing of a family member from this deadly disease will then leave behind the children or other family whom depended fully on that one person. The Stephen Lewis Foundation has reacted on this crisis by providing care to orphaned children, including food, shelter, clothing, and education; all
...nd usually the institutions and churches do not have the resources to provide a safety net for starving people. What we have found when working with the World Bank is that the poor man's safety net, the best investment, is school feeding. And if you fill the cup with local agriculture from small farmers, you have a transformative effect. Many kids in the world can't go to school because they have to go beg and find a meal. But when that food is there, it's transformative. It costs less than 25 cents a day to change a kid's life.” (Sheeran)
Communication of ideas thoughtfully through literature is a difficult task; however, Thomas King excels in his well-written narratives. With his well-crafted and creative stories, symbolism is woven through Thomas King’s narratives. In his stories such as “Totem,” “The Colour of Walls,” and “A Coyote Columbus Story,” the protagonists invite one to go beyond the surface of his tales, uncovering the hidden truths that they represent. All three tales are deeper in their meaning than one would perceive, with each one using symbolism in a different way to represent the challenges and discrimination First Nations have faced.
Grief is one of the most unfortunate inevitabilities of humankind. Everyone reaches a point in their life during which someone close to them dies, and it is only a matter of time before we, too, experience this fate. Holding such a prevalent place in society, it comes as no surprise that loss and mourning are often written about in a variety of contexts. One of the most well-known grief narratives published to date is that which C. S. Lewis wrote following the death of his wife. Originally published under a pseudonym to avoid recognition, A Grief Observed is an incredibly intimate piece of literature that explores the interplay of grief amidst the death of a spouse and how that changes one’s relationship with the self, with others, and with
During my numerous trips to Nigeria to visit my extended family, I saw firsthand how international health disparities can affect communities. It is often challenging to make the highest standard of care available to all groups and individuals here, and I became increasingly motivated to devote myself to the mission of reducing health disparities in African countries. People in my family, regardless of societal class, suffered from various illnesses including HIV/AIDS, malaria, and polio because of poor access to quality healthcare services. My goal is to return to underserved communities in both the United States and Nigeria after being armed with the training from the University of Michigan School of Information and the School of Public Health
Thesis: Lewis uses logic and reason to reach a evidence based “case” for Christianity and the existence of God. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “A Psalm of Life.” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, 3 Feb. 2017, www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/psalm-life. In the poem “ A Psalm of Life” there is a presumably young man (teenager/ young adult) that is being spoken to by a Psalmist.
There are approximately over 20 million children, under the age of 15, that have lost one or both parents through HIV/AIDS in Africa(Unicef, 10). Those children are usually brought to orphanages that are placed in certain areas around Africa. A great deal of the orphanages are ran by Christian organizations and have the under lying message of Christ in their homes. The African Children’s Project is one of the many orphanages open in Africa that was founded by Christians. Orphanages and children homes, like The African Children’s Project, provide the three main needs for orphaned children: physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, which are made possible through the help of funding and donations.
A country once in denial now has it’s South African political leaders addressing the disease that is slowing killing their population The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which evolves into acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is affecting South Africa socially as well as economically. This disease is also leaving over a million and a half children orphaned. Most of these children are not only orphaned but living with the virus as well.
Many children in Africa are growing up in the relative absence of adult love, protection, and guidance... Stigma and discrimination also contribute to the emotional toll of AIDS. Neighbors keep a distance for fear of infection and gossip about infected parents. Peers commonly tease and isolate the children. Teachers may turn children away for lack of school supplies, with no consideration of their family circumstances.
The emergence of HIV/AIDS is viewed globally as one of the most serious health and developmental challenges our society faces today. Being a lentivirus, HIV slowly replicates over time, attacking and wearing down the human immune system subsequently leading to AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) at which point the affected individual is exposed to life threatening illnesses and eventual death. Despite the fact that a few instances of this disease have been accounted for in all parts of the world, a high rate of the aforementioned living with HIV are situated in either low or medium wage procuring nations. The Sub-Saharan region Africa is recognized as the geographic region most afflicted by the pandemic. In previous years, people living with HIV or at risk of getting infected did not have enough access to prevention, care and treatment neither were they properly sensitized about the disease. These days, awareness and accessibility to all the mentioned (preventive methods, care etc.) has risen dramatically due to several global responses to the epidemic. An estimated half of newly infected people are among those under age 25(The Global HIV/AIDS Epidemic). It hits hard as it has no visible symptoms and can go a long time without being diagnosed until one is tested or before it is too late to manage.