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AIDS: A Women's Disease: TBB '10 student Marianna Brady explores this issue with interviews of home-based care givers and nurses in the townships of Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. |
HIV/AIDS is our most critical global health crisis. With death tolls in the millions in sub-Saharan Africa alone, rural and urban communities face the threat of collapse. You'll investigate how a country recovering from decades of Apartheid is attempting to address the needs of those infected with and affected by the disease. Your group will work with home-based caregivers. You'll support a center caring for AIDS orphans and offering new economic opportunities to the surrounding community.
You'll experience gorgeous coastline, quiet expanses of grassland, and a mix of ethnicities and tribal communities. You'll explore the rich music and dance history of regional cultures. You'll create art with young South Africans expressing their fears and hopes for the future.
South Africa is proud of its native species. Un-caged and un-fenced elephant, lion, antelope, giraffe, and buffalo roam throughout Addo National Park. You'll cruise slowly through the park in the safety of a vehicle to witness animals living naturally. You'll photograph baboons sitting below the baobab tree and watch a heard of elephant cross the road.
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"It was only after I could associate individual faces with HIV/AIDS that I was able to fathom the true importance of working toward better solutions to this devastating global problem." -Zander Rounds, TBB '10, Georgetown University |
