Spotlight:Meet Bridgette. She found out she was HIV-positive during a company-sponsored blood drive. Over the past 19 years, the doctors at her local clinic have helped her to realize that knowing her status and how to take care of herself are the keys to living a healthy, happy and long life. (Southern AIDS Quilt)
emPower is looking for people for our Living Positive Series. This series will allow people living with or affected by HIV to tell their stories in the magazine. Tell us your story.
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View Worthy: English Replaces French in Rwanda's Economic Boom: It suffered a genocide that wiped out 1.2 million people in one hundred days and decimated the country's economy. But 15 years on, its international supporters are calling Rwanda's economic recovery a miracle. Now the government has chosen to drop French as the language taught in schools and used in business - in favor of English. All to attract even more companies to do busines there. (Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from the capital, Kigali.)
View Worthy: The Trailer: A Place Called Home: The Great Migration of the 21st Century
View Worthy: The Subprime Swindle: Economic War on Black America: Nation magazine contributing writer Kai Wright, discusses his July 14 article about the mortgage crisis and its affect on the Black middle class. For his story, Wright traveled to Atlanta, Georgia where he met George Mitchell and many others like him who had fallen victim to lending scams and looming foreclosures, a problem that has plagued millions around the country. (Source: Nation)
Year for Cause: HIV/AIDS
What DidYOU Do About It?
After reading a topic in emPower did you decide to "do something about it"? If so, emPower wants to hear your story. We are looking for ordinary people and organizations that are doing positive things in their communities for our: 1) "Grassroots Giver section, which spotlights a person or non profit group; 2) Volunteer Adventures section, which is a video submission or blog chronicling an individual's community service; and the 3) Young Gifted & Black section, which features a person under the age of 21 who is a positive role model.
Email info@liukarama.com and put "non profit network" in the subject line.
In 2009 and part of 2010, emPower will focus on HIV/AIDS in the African American community and in Africa. If you are an organization that would like to join our Non profit Network, or an individual looking to get involved, email info@liukarama.com and put "non profit network" in the subject line.
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