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’ 6 > THECOLBORNE CHRONICLE â€" Thursday, March 20, 2008 www.northumberlandtoday.com j Feature ’ Ch 1 he world : in | anging the world â€" one day at a time. | Colborne resident and CObOllI‘g District clean water. Infrastructure as we . up the portable panels, in many . worse off, he was told/ | C ¢ $s .& know it is almost nonâ€"existent. . cases, on the homes of orphans. The village of Kilema has a _ | “ olleglate West pF 1nc1pal Jeff Kawzenuk SpEeNnt _ Barely passable roads, primitive â€" The group tried to get as many as hospita;. 1]13ut painkillers don‘t | | 1 j 3 i s health care and limited education â€" possible in the homes with kids . exist and there is a general lack of | three weeks in the ?emOte Vlllag e of Kllema, inhibit any movement toward a â€" who went to school so they could . cleanliness. Malnutrition brings | | ‘Tanzania last month. subsistence lifestyle. read at night. with it assorted complications. | | H 1 f hi 36 One in four mosquitoes carries The solution is a simple lowâ€" _ Legs break easily. In his rounds at | e relates some 0 S experlences and malaria. Kindergarten children tech one which was gratefully â€" the hospital Jeff sziw a patient in | | o whose parents can afford the $250 â€" received. It safely extends the day traction â€" a couple of sticks to | Chau'enges to BOb Owen. a year to attend school walk eight . at no cost. The panels were set up â€" prop up the leg weighted down by | | hy does a person spend right to food, drink, proper _ Wles up and down the foothills to â€" so that they.could be taken in at â€" a bag of dirt and held by twine. | | s;s; time in a remote rural _ nutrition and an education. All School each day. The school of 350 night. Tanzania is relatively The night air was perforated by | | . village in Tanzania are problems the world could 18 S8rved by two outdoor toilet â€" crime free, but the solar collectors â€"the screams of the sick and the | 1 moderating the suffering of a few â€" solve tomorrow if the will was _ Pits. Lunch is an unpalatable mix . are a valuable resource. dying. | people when there are literally â€" there. And everyone has the right â€" Of rice and beans cooked over an On one tour, Mr. Kawzenuk millions in similar conditions? to die in dignity. No one in their , Oben fire in an unventilated _ The AIDS pandemic passed a man with only a few | Colborne resident and Cobourg _ final hours should have to endure _ 200kh0use. When lTunch is done, The effects of AIDS in Africa hours left to live. His arms were | ‘ District â€" Collegiate West the agony and squalor he. the Kids rinse their bowls in the . are gripping. sticks; he had no idea where he | | >â€" secondary school principal Jeff . witnessed, he believes. e creek and then fill them up to Grandparents _ care. for. was, lying in his own feces. The | Kawzenuk faced that question as The secondary school principal qrmk parentless children. One toddler . doctors try to give comfort but | he worked in the Catholic village followed the lead of. his Painkillers don‘t exist. Women â€" he met was being cared for by his there is no dignity dying that | | of Kilema, Tanzania. The answer counterpart at East Tequiring Caesarian sections great, great grandparents. The. way. | was a painful one. There is so. Northumberland â€" Secondary endure them with no morphine. baby‘s mother was 14 and left This community is better off | much suffering and the people School in Brighton, Steve People in need of a doctor walk . soon after bearing the child. Her . than most. | | t have so little. Thousands and â€" Truelove, and took three weeks to to the yillage and line up for four parents and grandparents were There is an AIDS Centre. â€" | thousands of the children are help others in a.country most of â€" ROUrs in the early morning in the . dead or gone. Mr. Kawzenuk. People come in for counseling and / | | orphans, their parents taken from â€" us only know as a name in an hope of seeing one. stopped to talk to the great great .. their antiretroviral drugs. 1 | | them in the AIDS pandemic. How â€" atlas. & AIDS has eliminated almost. grandfather. His wife wasn‘t Before he went to Tanzania, | | can this happen in our world?. _ _ What Mr. Kawzenuk found was everyone betweep 25 and 45. It is a _ availableâ€"she was out working. Mr. Kawzenuk did not understand _ | How can so many need so much?â€" unimaginable. But, he returned generation wiped ~out. The He grew to know a little more .. why AIDS could not be prevented. / | While the global questions remain .. convinced he has gained more orphans of the dead have no about ano_ther little one named He can rhyme off the list of | | 4 unanswered, Mr. Kawzenuk . than he gave. t cllnance to improve themselves Dennis. His mother: sold bananas reasons now â€" infrastructure, | | â€" knows now: you have to start In the foothills of Mount Without sponsors to pay the $250 â€" and papayas outside the AIDS â€" education, economy, healthcare. | | somewhere, helping a few kids. Kilimanjaro where he worked, scl}ool fees. With schoql comes a . Centre. Their home was one of the The people do understand that I He returned to Canada firm in _ over 100,000 people live with no daily Iunch â€"a necessity for the â€" better ones with r_nats toA sleep on antiretroviral drugs will allow 1 i\ | his belief that every child has the hydro, no refrigeration and no orphans fortunate enough to.â€" and a valuable chicken tied by its: them to live longer healthier t \1 | attend. leg to a table. Dennis‘s dad‘s grave lives. § fln oi â€" oo ue smy The prospects are grim â€" and _ was 10 feet from the door. He died When posed with the question ? | | Ei NaRY" w223 @/{# 8 A‘ k 29 this is in an area receiving of AIDS in 2004. Dennis is not in of why they don‘{ have smaller /\ | . t C’ 2r‘. Mn 2 a. TiX ‘{;& ie t ~ Saal assistance from the Canada . school. families, one of the Tanzamian _\ _ P . OH i( i c . ,"‘\‘, . ag'fl\-‘i eal . ) Africa Community â€" Health . Mr. Kawzenuk was cautioned workers on the project explained: | io k , ith" "Wie 4 S Alliance. by the women with whom he his children will one day care for _ / j se : ‘‘___ 924 e Mr. Kawzenuk was one of 22 spoke about sponsoring Dennis. â€" him. f | ; 12 "I4! s & (;fi' es e “‘»f» RE] â€" workers who traveled to Tanzania . There are thousands who are far continued on next page | P L}} 00 s > C *, MA ) with the alliance in February, ; | . B ul L. se ® C carrying with them 50â€"pound on C | 4 * td w ESEA hockey bags jammed with school ‘s Nes _ x v Fu otvi N k 1 supplies and tools donated by j p d m | j mt Sn NA Liquidation World, Staples, ( 4 | id koolr 5. Cl students and teachers. PA 9