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Students participating in EOP Commuter Bridge.
Each year EOP Transitional Programs offers a summer experience to help students bridge the gap between High School and University. The program's goals are to give students a head start toward a successful college experience and the opportunity to begin building a strong community. Photo Credit: Margaret Nguyen | CSUN EOP
300 people die of HIV/AIDS related cases daily in Kenya.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Kenya has great socio-economic effects. The government declared AIDS a National disaster in 1999. Since then AIDS has been streamlined into all government Ministries due to the multi-sectoral of its effects. Nationally, HIV prevalence rate now for adults stands at 6.1%. Women of age 15-49 are 740,000. Children with HIV/AIDS are 150,000 and the number of AIDS orphans (age 0-17 years) stands at 1,100,000.
Each month in Kenya, over 3,000 babies are born to HIV-positive mothers. Kenya’s health system is ill-equipped for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS related diseases.
Bondo and Siaya are large districts in Nyanza on the edge of Lake Victoria with a total area of 2507km2. They are densely populated with small farm holdings that provide only a subsistence existence; consequently 61% of people live below the poverty line.
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Students participating in EOP Transfer Bridge.
Each year EOP Transitional Programs offers a summer experience to help students bridge the gap between High School and University. The program's goals are to give students a head start toward a successful college experience and the opportunity to begin building a strong community. Photo Credit: Margaret Nguyen | CSUN EOP
For more information please visit: www.csun.edu/eop
EOP Transitional Programs offers a summer experience at CSUN to help students bridge the gap between High School and University. The program's goals are to give students a head start toward a successful college experience and the opportunity to begin building a strong community.
Brian had told me last week, “The cultural differences and similarities in the orphanage were enormous. Little girls are little girls anywhere in the world.
“Thank God I have parented two children, so it was the most natural of moments. Switching glasses with them, seeing them draw stars and hearts… The children were so tactile, kind, loving, affectionate, and gracious.
“I saw a picture of Paul Stevers there on the wall, the founder of CharityHelp International in the U.S. that provides a bridge between child sponsors and the children there.
“The kids had a politeness, and order, a discipline – not like in Annie, but an attitude of accepting real responsibility – the way I was raised. It was so real,” Brian told me.
~ Scott Reed
I took this after the end of the Avon walk. All the walk participants were given new t-shirts to wear to the closing ceremony. We got this light pink ones and the walkers who were breast cancer survivors received deeper pink shirts. I had a few shots here to choose from, but I picked this one because of that walker showing her bandaged foot, and you can also see the other walker with both her knees bandaged. We looked like the walking wounded, but that did not keep us from finishing the walk or from walking across the street to stand for the very moving closing ceremony.
You can see my entire Avon Walk for Breast Cancer 2012, Chicago, set here, along with a full description/story. Thanks for looking!
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