Love in the driest season

Just finished reading an amazing true story called Love in the Driest Season. This is such a powerful, emotional book and I highly recommend it to anyone. Here's a little blurb on it...

In 1997 foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe. After witnessing the devastating consequences of AIDS and economic disaster on the country’s children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage where a critically ill infant, abandoned in a field on the day she was born, was trusted to their care. Within weeks, Chipo, the baby girl whose name means “gift,” would come to mean everything to them. Their decision to adopt her, however, would challenge an unspoken social norm: that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo’s true story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love—and dogged determination—can sometimes achieve.

The struggle this couple went through to adopt this abandoned baby was almost unbelievable. This struggle, in a country of 11 million people, that had, at the time. over 543,000 children who had either lost their mother, or both parents to HIV/AIDS.

So much goes on in our world that we find so easy to ignore. A whole continent is ravaged by a HIV/AIDS and it's easy to turn a blind eye to all that could be done.

Do yourself a favour and go out and find this book. Then once you've read it, find out what you can do to help, in some small way. Let's help our fellow human brothers and sisters fight this disease that is wiping out entire generations.

I am going to investigate what I can do and I'll share what I find with you guys.

Till next time.