RANDY FATH, Empower International Advisory Board Member, USA |
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If there is one part of me that is wise it is the one part that is refusing me to allow the writing of this brief report. How I feel in response to the 10-day trip to Kenya is voting strongly against the writing as well. This conflict is based on my own weakness because, like most people, I believed I could understand the AIDS pandemic through the statistics, and other reports.
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BRUCE WILKINSON, Executive Director, Pump House Ministries |
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It has been said that it only takes hours to chop down a tree, which took generations to grow. Relatively speaking, it has only taken HIV/AIDS minutes to chop down generations of Kenyans leaving only the rough and jagged remains of a society behind.
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MEGAN MORRISON, Empower International Member, USA |
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Kenya took me on a visual and emotional journey through a beauty and grief I could've ever imagined. There was a secret waiting for me--a secret well worth the plane ride and the emotional shock of observing and touching real suffering.
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BILL LUDWIG, Empower International Advisory Board Member, USA |
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After having traveled the world and having experienced many different people groups I feel like I have finally come home to Kenya. I felt so small in the presence our brothers and sisters there. It was almost as if I needed them more than they needed me.
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KATHY DITLEVSON, Director, Empower International |
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I only needed to meet the people of Kenya one time, and I developed an immediate love for them! During my time spent with the Empower International Kenya staff, I observed they are resourceful, creative, bold, self-sacrificing and hard-working. In spite of tremendous obstacles—poverty, disease, and HIV/AIDS, —they outwardly demonstrate love, hope and determination to overcome these obstacles.
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