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Mums for Mums

or "Grandmothers & 'GrandOthers' for Grandmothers"

May 10, 2015 -- Christian Family Sunday






"The Stephen Lewis Foundation has helped over 10 thousand people who are suffering from HIV/AIDS since 2003. The Stephen Lewis Foundation is mandated to provide care for women suffering from HIV/AIDS, to assist orphans and other children affected by AIDS, to support grandmothers caring for orphaned grandchildren, and to support groups of people living with HIV/AIDS.

"On March 7, 2006, the foundation launched the "Grandmothers to Grandmothers" campaign to encourage grandmothers in Canada to work with grandmothers caring for children orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan African countries. More than forty groups were started across Canada in the first five months of the initiative. The first "Grandmothers to Grandmothers gathering" took place at George Brown College at the University of Toronto in August 2006, attended by two hundred grandmothers from Canada and one hundred from sub-Saharan Africa. Several groups from the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign were profiled in Grandmother Power, a book by photojournalist Paola Gianturco.

"The foundation mostly supports small frontline groups and charities, although on some occasions it has provided larger projects with money. It has supported initiatives in Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe."

   - Quotation from the Wikipedia entry on the Stephen Lewis Foundation.
 



On May 10, Mother's Day, members of the Outreach Committee festooned the front of the sanctuary with forty potted chrysanthemums. All $295 earned by this effort went the Stephen Lewis Foundation in support of the continuing effort in sub-Saharan Africa (that is the part of the African continent south of the Sahara dessert - the "lion's share" of Africa).



(Recent photo but not from Mother's Day.)
The anthem chosen that week was particulary appropriate:

Her words are good and kind,
She feeds the heart and mind
As she lives to share God's wisdom with her young.
To teach them what to do,
What is good and what is true,
She is faithful to her work that is never done.
Rise up and call her blessed, rise up and show your love...


Listen to the choir by following the link below:
(right-click and choose "Open in New Tab")

Rise Up and Call her Blessed

(By Pepper Choplin)



To visit the foundation's website,
follow the link below by clicking on the logo:




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