[Dialogue] {Spam?} Stephanie Nolen brings frontline stories of AIDSin Africa

[Janet Sanders]

Stephanie Nolen brings frontline stories of AIDS in AfricaA good overview.  Thank you.  I'm glad to see the stories being shared on this network.  Can I use some of the paragraphs for the African Directors Report?  Jan  And/Or it could be included in the ICAI network news.  Again thank you. 
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  From: Wayne Nelson 
  To: Colleague Dialogue ; Eowynne Feeney ; ldonnery at icacan.ca 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:38 PM
  Subject: [Dialogue] {Spam?} Stephanie Nolen brings frontline stories of AIDSin Africa




    This was a really great event for ICA Canada and Listen to the Drumming

    There were over 500 people there. 50 of them attended  a special reception prior to the event itself. It was held at a downtown Anglican Church. Beautiful place.

    Several highlights:

    Presenters
    Stephanie Nolen is a story teller and weaves the facts and major policy points home through the on the ground stories of people living with HIV/AIDS. She was great. John Patterson did a roving and insightful report of African ICA's work on AIDS and talked the pilot project at Il Ngwesi, Kenya. . . . . and believe me, having spent time on the front lines in Africa, this is an amazing project approach. You would all be very proud of this work. Dr Phillip Berger, a new colleague and Team Leader of the Ontario Hospital Network, talked in a no-nonsense way about the whole situation. Ruth Mathiang, a Sudanese refugee, provided gentle rhythms and lilting melodies that makes East African music so wonderful.

    ICA Members ran it
    The whole event was run by ICA board and volunteers. From elder Sister Virginia Varley - ICA chair to Adrianne, our university student intern; they were there and engaged. Rhonda, a newer board member filled in as MC when they found out that Alanna Mitchell, Jim Patterson's partner, was stuck in a snow storm in Edmonton. ICA Canada staff and volunteers produced the event with class and grace. Us old hand staff did a few things to help along the way, but honestly very little.

    Youth
    The place was full of youth. Great energy. At a similar, but smaller event leading up to the Marathon, Jo and I were amused and honestly pleased to see what we probably looked like when we were in our 20's and doing these sort of events. I also find myself heartened, because this generation has a rep for being quite self centred - the "Friends" dynamic in which everything revolves around the self and relationships and fun in a tight group. These people are involved and committed.

    Families 
    4 of 5 Gibsons were there - Rashad had to work, but Stan, Miriam, Javed and Ishara were there. Javid spent 4 months in Il Ngwesi recently. You could hardly move without running into a member of the extended Patterson family. John is on the ICA board. Their energy has really made this whole thing come together. Duncan (kind of acting ED) and Derek (on the board and the point person in our relationship with the hospital that is eating up the Courage to Lead. - Richard Sims and Jan Sanders ( a board member and regular African traveler teaching courses) . These and other families are real examples of 21st century families in mission.

    The energy was great - the food at the reception was exceptional. It was an evening of goodness. I was proud to be associated with such amazing people.

       
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    Nolen to bring frontline stories of AIDS in Africa

    Sun. Nov. 11 2007 10:47 AM ET

    CTV.ca News Staff


    South Africa-based journalist and author Stephanie Nolen will be bringing stories from the frontlines of the battle against HIV/AIDS to Toronto. "HIV/AIDS: Stories From the Field" is designed to raise funds to bolster the fight and inspire people here to take action, said Eowynne Feeney, co-director of Listen to the Drumming, the group hosting the event. "What we hope people get from this is that there is hope and there are people on the ground -- Africans on the ground -- who are doing amazing work," Feeney tells CTV.ca. 





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