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From India
"The candlelight memorial was a community affair indeed!
And we were thrilled to see so many on our e-list there.
Being the marriage season, it was great to have some of you
take time out to drop in on the way to your other evening engagements.
Aditya Bandhopadhyay spoke about the problems faced by positive people
as well as social workers working in the HIV/AIDS programme.
We were encouraged by strong support at short notice from groups like
The Patliputra round table, who rang us up on the morning of
the 19th and offered to send over 200 packs of refreshments. Thanks Khurshid
and
Rohit.
The South Indian Cultural Association, Mobile Theatre, and the All India
Anglo Indian
Association put up cultural items, while the group Integration from Calcutta
presented a theme piece called from bondage to bonding.
Mr Joseph Galstaun, the nominated Anglo-Indian MLA from Jharkhand
was present along with Glen Galstaun and boys from St. Dominic Savio's.
We were thrilled to see several members of this e-group: among whom were
Augustine, Anamika (from jamshedpur), Fr Paul, Sr Jyosita, Avhinav (who has
been
a pilar of strength and the one who gave willingly of her new car for
transportation).
The candle lighting ceremony and walk was impressive as usual, this time the
large number of street children from Bal Sakha/Childline made several Hindi
papers write 'Children carried candles to commemorate the memory of AIDS
victims'.
Thanks must go out to Rwituja, Aditya, Lok, Augustine, Rachna, Jean, Sanat,
Glen,
Christine, Birendra,and Margaret Martin for enabling us to meet the expenses of
the project."
- Frank Krishner
on behalf of AASRA, patna
Interested in posting your community's story?
Send your stories and photos to Linda Nguyen by email at lnguyen@globalhealth.org or mail them to: Matt Matassa, Global Health Council, 1701 K Street, NW - Suite 600, Washington, DC 20006.
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