Full Hands and Full Hearts

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Conquering the Tricycle

DS has been working on riding the tricycle for a few weeks now... and he's finally mastered it! Here's a short video of him riding today. Excuse the quality- it's from my phone.

While I was attending ISU, I volunteered for over a year at an HIV/AIDS education center. It started out as a project for class, but I soon grew to really enjoy it. It was incredibly rewarding and is one of the few college "experiences" I can say positively affected me and changed my outlook on life. I encourage everyone to celebrate World AIDS Day today, December 1.

Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. The World AIDS Day theme for 2009 is 'Universal Access and Human Rights'. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.

According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children. During 2008 some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS.1 Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35.2

The vast majority of people with HIV and AIDS live in lower- and middle-income countries. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world.

http://www.avert.org/world-aids-day.htm