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Josh gave another plastic toy is his hand and decided to sleep in if he could take part with him. In the morning, he was always there, proudly at the top of the stack as a star of the Christmas tree – a light signal of a child who could not fully understand the meaning of their gifts.
What he did understand is that the toys that children differ from him. They had also lost their parents.
Deliver toys, Josh traveled with his mother in Uganda. Despite the marked difference in culture and language, Josh and his mother, using their own loss of a deep relationship with women and children in the village of Ndejje and created a bond that would last longer than toys, balloons and chewing gum they had brought. Erin Cassidy was married to Paul for two years when she became pregnant with her first child. Three months later, Paul had found bowel cancer. Erin has given birth to her son, she saw her husband dies. Only Josh five months after he entered the world, Paul is gone. Erin was alone with her son in September and Paul, daughter. The world, apparently, never became the same direction. Four years later, Erin has worked as Head of the Office of Global Volunteer Network. He has seen hundreds of people committed to donate their time and often thinking on volunteerism itself. For there is a particular agenda in mind: the widow of the power of women in Uganda.
When Erin made a comment a hand friend in the church in the project, he said the flight booking and bill for it. When he realized it was serious, she did, but did not come alone, she also Josh took. "I wanted to show that even if we do not have much, we have more than others can only dream," she said. As for Erin, the trip was a kind of return in a foreign country where they could offer their knowledge of pain others to consider.
"I knew that deal," he said. "Most women in terms of empowerment of widows lost their husbands to AIDS and have seen their spouses also wither. AIDS has devastated Uganda. In 2003 there were 530,000 adults living with HIV / AIDS and 2.2 million orphans in a population of 24 million people who had lost one or both parents to the disease. This strain was created in the communities is difficult to bear. Since the husband is the traditional way of life of families in Uganda, his death often leaves the family financial crisis. The project of the widow's empowerment gives women choices about their financial future and provides assistance to make difficult choices between food and education, water and drugs. The project began with a local organization in Ndejje, and with the help of the Global Volunteer Network, employs international volunteers to help teach mothers and widows of skills for their livelihood. By Erin and Josh, who has been helping to build venues for women to increase the pigs and sell for profit. "I know how it was and sometimes still is, for me and the children," said Erin. "And I had the assistance Welfare, friends, people in the church and other support organizations. I also remember that I did not accept help from anyone. And yet, here, these women were very proud of be so funny. I am ashamed to say I probably was not polite in accepting help in the scale that I have received. It was very humiliating.
The decision to take Josh to Uganda was not easy. But in the end, Erin knew she could not leave without him.
"Josh and I talked a lot before leaving," said Erin. "We Looking at the pictures and talk about what it means not having a father. There were a lot of knowledge for a period of five years. "For her Josh prepared for the trip, which can not always put your mind at ease.
"I do not know much about AIDS, before I went," Erin said. "I knew Many of these youngsters who would be playing with AIDS. I had thought a little paranoid, "What if he falls and cuts himself while playing? This was my biggest concern. But I think even crossed my mind once it is there.
In his interview, Josh said several times how it was sad for the children.
"What The saddest part is that the children had no parents and no grandfather or grandmother. "One evening, he met a young orphan with Down syndrome in ragged clothes. Josh gave his shirt, in exchange for his miserable one. It is a story of Erin said, but she still cries with her story.
And this is not the only history Erin makes emotional. There are faces, still remembers …
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