Tini gave her presentation to 25 ladies who came to hear more about the campaign that attempts to raise awareness and encourage support in Canada for a country that has been ravaged by the AIDS pandemic.

In Africa, so many young and middle aged adults – mums and dads have died and left children behind. The responsibility for raising these babies and youngsters has fallen on grandmothers. Since there is such a tremendous need for food, housing, school fees, medical services and counseling, the Stephen Lewis Foundation has launched this campaign to provide grandmothers in Africa with the necessities to help them raise their grandchildren.

We learned that there is even a group of women in Cobourg who call themselves the Northumberland Go Gos. Go Go is the Zulu name for grandmother. There are now more than 240 groups of Canadian grandmothers who have taken action to try and assist our ‘sister’ grandmothers. So far over $10,000,000 has been raised. Tini has had the opportunity to visit the grandmothers that her group is assisting and eloquently spoke to us of her experiences and the gratitude of the grannies in Africa. If anyone is interested in more information about this initiative, speak to any one of the Trinity Group members.

Lyn Bradshaw Secretary