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

[Wayne Nelson]

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"Janet Sanders"  wrote:

> A 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.
>>  
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>  
>> From:  Wayne Nelson <mailto:wnelson at ica-associates.ca>
>>  
>> To: Colleague Dialogue <mailto:dialogue at wedgeblade.net>  ; Eowynne Feeney
>> <mailto:efeeney at icacan.ca>  ;  ldonnery at icacan.ca
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>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:38  PM
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>> Subject: [Dialogue] {Spam?} Stephanie  Nolen brings frontline stories of
>> AIDSin Africa
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>>  
>>> 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 ICA¹s 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 Patterson¹s 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 20¹s and doing these
>>> sort of events. I also find myself  heartened, because this generation has a
>>> rep for being quite self centred ­  the ³Friends² 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.
>>> 
>>>    
>>> \\/
>>>  
>>>   
>>>        
>>> 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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