Every 1st day of December, World Aids Day is internationally celebrated as a day to raise awareness about the HIV/Aids pandemic. Lives lost to this scourge are also mourned globally.
For me, this day is personal because it reminds me of 3 members of my immediate family who lost the battle to Aids. I believe every family in Uganda has in some way suffered this pain.
Good Shed Foundation (GSF) supports numerous children by keeping them in school and many of these have had their lives affected by HIV/Aids in one way or another. This year (2023), the GSF beneficiaries at Entebbe UMEA Primary School commemorated the day through a poetic skit that they presented at the celebrations organized by the Katabi CSO Network in Gerenge.
GSF is committed to supporting children change the narrative of their families. Even if one’s parents could have died of Aids, the children can be supported to know how to avoid contracting the disease and grow to become the responsible adults their parents would have wished for themt to become. In cases where a child is HIV +Ve, all is not lost. With counselling and timely medication, thousands of children have grown to be a testimony that HIV is not the end of life!
