Our Outreach Committee in Wakefield eagerly accepted the offer by the Rooneys to show a video they had filmed in Africa-called « Condoms Fish and Circus tricks ». This was presented at a Community function in the auditorium of the school, when we served soup and bread. The film is riveting, the soup and bread a hit, and we raised our first $1000 for B. of H. One of the audience, a young doctor at our local hospital, mentioned to Gisele, that she may be interested in meeting his mother - Nina Minde - She and her husband Klaus, had spent part of his sabbatical in South Africa in -2002. (...)

The Wakefield Grannies are a group of women offering support to AIDS Orphans and their Grandmothers in Alexandra Township, South Africa. The Background On a visit to Quebec in 2004, Rose Letwaba spoke about her work to a small audience in the Wakefield United Church. Rose is a nurse in the health clinic in Alexandra Township on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa. The picture she painted was of a whole generation of South Africans lost to AIDS and grieving mothers left to carry the burden of raising their grandchildren to be healthy, educated and socially responsible adults. (...)