PEFO Grandmothers in Uganda perform solidarity action

From PEFO, a grassroots organization supported by the Stephen Lewis Foundation in Uganda:

"This short play is based on true daily experience which the grannies go through when caring for their orphaned grand children but the most important part of it is that their determination and hope never fades.The play starts with the loss of grandchild in the hands of her grandmother. The grandmother is confused she does know what to do. But she remembers her fellow grandmothers she usually meets with. So she makes sure that all the grandmothers get know about what has happened. However on hearing the sad news the grandmothers pour in like bees at her fellow grandmothers home to console and share the sorrow with her. But despite all this they remember that their hope and determination never dies so they apply their cultural strategies of coping with sorrow which is dancing and singing, truly this play is typical way of how grandmothers go through and cope with their many troubles. So what you are seeing is purely what happens in Uganda and maybe Africa as whole."

PEFO is one of more than 50 groups who came together on March 25, 2009 to demonstrate the solidarity between African and Canadian grandmothers. Canadian grandmothers have raised more than $4 million for African grandmothers and the children in their care through the Stephen Lewis Foundation (www.stephenlewisfoundation.org). Funds help grassroots organizations working to turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in 15 of the hardest hit African countries to provide food, education, health care, counselling and other essential support.

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• PEFO
• grandmothers
• solidarity
• HIV/AIDS
• Grandmothers Campaign
• Stephen Lewis Foundation