My hat is off to Kim Cannon and Elise Bare, high school students written up in this newspaper article.
"We saw a three-minute video about AIDS in Africa, and by the end of it, we knew we had to do something, " Bare said. "How can you know this exists and do nothing?"
Kim and Elise are selling T- shirts to support World Vision's work with AIDS sufferers and their families. The T-shirts say on the front: "ONE LIFE" and on the back: " DO SOMETHING"
Elise points out the following:
- 8,000 people in Africa die everyday from HIV-AIDS.
- 15 million children have lost one or both parents due to HIV-AIDS in Africa. This is the equivalent of the total number of high school students in America.
- In three years, this number of orphaned children is expected to rise to 20.2 million. Don't you think we should do something?
- In the small country of Swaziland, 1 out of every 3 people is HIV positive. Swaziland has a population of 1,138,000. That's a lot of people with AIDS
- World Vision is a U.S. government -supported program which provides food, health care, schooling, caring counselors, and education about AIDS to help children in Africa whose parents died of the disease. Without World Vision, 12-year-olds are raising themselves--and their siblings.
- Every 17 dollars raised by World Vision is matched by the government and can provide for a child for a year. So for every 3 or 4 T-shirts we sell, a child's life is saved. How amazing is that?
Our t-shirts are $10 each, and half the cost goes directly to World Vision (the other half pays for the shirt!)