This morning I awaken with no alarm, it's a good thing too because my wrist watch battery has died. Mike's watch yesterday cleared us of the anchorage and set our course for Africa. This is our last leg of Sankofa 2. I feel a certain sadness to end the journey with the students. They've each had monumental evolutions in thought and ability, it's been a privilege to participate in their growth. I'll miss each of them.
    Today is World AIDS Day. I think of my friends, my colleagues, folk I didn't know personally, whole communities devastated, health care professionals stretched to the limit, a generation lost, children being raised by their grandmothers because their parents are dead from HIV/AIDS. The continent we about to visit is the site of some of the worst of the epidemic. Heterosexual women are the fastest growing group of newly infected people, their partners are not monogamous and bring it to the family bed. Barrier methods are proven effective for birth control, but condoms are not freely available everywhere. Lives continue to be at stake, people are continuing to die, women and girls are being raped for the sake of youth seeking and perpetual virility. My church is more concerned with who's doing who to be of help. I wish, I wish, I wish... Love to all my people. HK
 

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