She spoke to him about how so many African grandmothers were raising the 15 million children orphaned by the continent’s HIV-AIDS pandemic. The Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign celebrated its 10th anniversary this weekend with a get-together at Centennial College. That father-daughter conversation was the genesis of a movement connecting grandmothers in Canada to grandmothers in more than a dozen countries Africa. Lewis said the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign really got rolling in August 2006 during the International AIDS conference in Toronto, when 100 African grandmothers from 12 countries met with more 200 Canadian grandmothers. Like the grandmothers do.”Canadian grandmother Marg Wilson, 78, of Guelph, said she was moved to tears in 2006 when she heard Lewis speak about the African grandmothers.

Source: thestar October 01, 2016 22:48 UTC