HIV/AIDS

Today is national HIV/AIDS awareness day and although the children we are adopting don't have AIDS I have seen the ill iffects of it first hand. No they are no different than you and I on the surface. AIDS/HIV is TREATABLE in the U.S. but unfortunately in a 3rd world country like Sierra Leone it is not. A good friend of our's posted it very clearly written on her facebook today "In the US, an HIV+ child will grow up, go to college, get married, have kids & live a normal life with a projected normal lifespan. In a developing nation, 50% of HIV+ kiddos die before they're 2 years old... So when people ask "why do you work in other countries when there are needs in the US?" ... This is why folks..... This is why...."

I have been thinking alot today about this issue we are faced with a disease that is treatable but not curable. Our good friend Lori who I and Rich had the opportunity to travel with to SL this year, her soon to be adopted children's mother is HIV+, I watched her bond with the biological mother of her children and watching them laugh and cry together. It really touched my life, before Lori had came in Sept 2009, her children's mother was on her death bed, dying from this horrible disease. She now has the treatments available to treat the disease and has made an incredible difference from the pictures I saw of the Sept 2009 trip. One life changed all because of treatment, which you can provide for any child suffering with this disease.

I am so grateful for the nation we live in and the opportunities such as life that we are given. If you would like more information on how to sponsor a child thru TRS that you can help for as little as $20 a month please visit here You can change the life on an Orphan forever.