It was 25 words or less, something about what I could bring to the Orange HOPE program.
My Scottish friend nudged my side and my mum urged me to enter, it went something along the lines of ‘loving, listening, learning, giving’ with a few words in between.
I popped my entrance in the box and thought nothing of it.
Two months, one phone interview and some crazy dealings later I found myself walking up the stairs of the SIM office, as the Orange HOPE Ambassador – in part, the inspiration for this blog.
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| Yep, its macwards. (&excuse terrifying facial expression) |
Here’s our website! Take a squiz.
And whilst your interneting, join our facebook group.
Oh, and read on.
We're all about the prevention and treatment of HIV.
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| some photos from our HOPE for AIDS Malawi programs. |
It’s Orange because it’s orange and it’s HOPE because its
Home-based care
Orphan Care
Prevention and
Enabling the Church
And thus, we’re a fundraising initiative – all about connecting people here and there, tying the loose ends together if you know what I mean (get the blog by-line now? Yeah I went there). It’s about being a globe, and being informed. It’s about caring, connecting and acting out of love. It’s about hope.
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| this is our simulation "clinic", an interactive/ educational walk-through experience. |
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| a mullet, apparently. |
1 in 8 adults in Malawi have HIV. There are around 1.2 million HIV and AIDS orphans (of a population of 15 million). My job? Is to make people care about that, and do something about it.
What a privilege! What a task. What a joy.
Join me, pray for me, help me, partner with me.
Because I sure as anything can’t do this by myself.
Community, yeah.
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| giraffe logo! the best. (Oh yeah, also: any opinions, thoughts, musings and writings expressed on this blog are purely my own and do not necessarily represent those of Orange HOPE, simaid, or SIM in general. It’s just me and my learnings, always. Tiny writing over.) |
