This week’s QOTW was crazy. Can you really imagine people being tracked because they are HIV positive? The government is getting too involved with people’s personal lives. The question of the week was talking about the government being able to keep tabs on sexual partners of the micro chipped individual. Talk about an invasion of privacy. I really hope our society will not end up like this. I hope technologically advances don’t subject us to this type of behavior.
Did you know?
This week, I was researching my topic of HIV and schools. I found an organization that was founded in 2001 in Uganda. The Nyaka AIDS Orphan School Organization offers education to the children in the area. Of just 30 million in the city, 2.2 children are left orphans by one or more parents dying of AIDS. This leaves grandparents or older children to care for the young. It is difficult to keep the orphans fed and a roof over their head and it's even harder for them to receive an education. That is why this organization is so important. Two United States Citizens visited this place, and saw for themselves just how bad the AIDS epidemic was in Uganda. When they returned to the United States, they started to raise money with their peers and church. Soon they bought 2 acres of land where the school was to be built.
This was an incredible accomplishment for the area. Children have been attending Nyaka and enjoying themselves like never before. This is an excellent opportunity for children who have been affected by the AIDS epidemic.
Nyaka AIDS Orphans School. (2008). Nyaka School. Retrieved November 10, 2009, from http://www.nyakaschool.org/index.php
Yeah I thought the QOTW this week was a little too crazy. Hope it never gets that bad. Good story about the school in Uganda. If every country donated a little money, the countries such as this one could have a fighting chance at becoming prosperous and beating the AIDS epidemic. If we do not help them, the problem will just continue to get worse.
ReplyDeleteI think the government should, to an extent, get involved in personal lives. Especially if it affects the country as a whole.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the Nyaka AIDS Orphan School Organization raised up enough money to build a school for the kids. Properly educating the kids will take on an whole nother level now!