I just heard that Amina and Shammim, the mother and daughter I'd blogged about previously, are both HIV positive. It's so hard to hear, and immediately snaps me back to reality. I'm really heartbroken...especially about the baby. She's maybe got a year or two to live, max. She's already getting sick. It's so hard to imagine that brilliant, sassy little girl not getting the opportunity to live out her life.
It makes me want to go back more than ever. I was just starting to sink back into the easy routine of everyday life in the U.S. when I heard, and was snapped violently back into reality. I want to go back.
Anyway, I'm finishing up organizing my pictures, they'll be up before I go back down to LA for Dave's birthday this weekend.
This blog will serve as my main link to the outside world while I spend two months working in an orphanage in Mateves Village, Tanzania. I'll let my friends and family know how I am and what I'm doing on a weekly basis.
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Aww Caitlin, it breaks my heart to hear this news so I can only imagine what you must feel. It is so unfair that these girls do not have access to the life-saving meds that they very much need. I know it's not much, but I know and am glad that the members of OHS are doing what they can for them.
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