7th Update - Mission Accomplished

The Partners for Hope team is gone but their impact will be felt by many. Here is there last update:

This is what the Partners for Care (PFC) do to try and change this Nation and the continent of Africa. HIV/AIDs is everywhere orphaning children, infecting children and creating a country of sick and the caregivers who care for them. The PFC house sits right next
to a slum. If we hadn't seen it ourselves we would not have believed
it - the slum is worse than Mathare Slum. A month ago Njokie, PFC
staff, went to see this slum for herself. She found a woman sick in
bed with a six year old child. She took her and the child riding on a
public bus for testing - she was positive and so was her child. She
took her home leaving her with food. The women died that night leaving
another orphaned child infected with AIDs.

The what if? campaign uses music to draw a crowd. Then Pastor Omondi talks to them about
HIV/AIDs. They are asked to sign a committment card committing to
test to know their status, wait til marriage and to be faithful to one
partner. These are the behavior changes needed to stop AIDS. We met so
many young girls - hopeless with no skills to seek jobs. Some selling
their bodies for food. This is where we are putting the Alain
Hyppolite IT Center. It will be run by the PFC staff. Young girls and
boys will learn to type, learn computer skills to help them find jobs.
We are honored to be a part of the solution - to help lift these young
Africans out of poverty. We were so happy to have witnessed the
pastor of the church test publically in the morning church service - a
very unusal event in Kenya. And, it made a difference in the number of
people willing to test at the event. There were 330 people tested at
the two day event! We were the mobilizers - on the ground asking
people to test, taking them by the hand to the counsellors for
testing. Four people found out they were infected. They were all
referred for care and treatment.

We were blessed to know through the
funds we raised, through our mobilizing efforts lives were saved.
Blessed to partner with PFC staff to save lives in Kenya,
Sisters Going to Kenya

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