My Journey into AIDS Activism
Valerie Bell

Read one woman's struggle to understand AIDS—the overwhelming statistics, confusing medical acronyms, and complex global inequities—and find out how she changes her life after a transforming firsthand encounter with AIDS-affected children and families. Bell shares intimate journal entries during her trip to Africa and soulful reflections in the following weeks and months as she seeks to understand how one person can make a real difference in the battle against AIDS.  

For more resources on AIDS, see A Guide to Acting on AIDS, Breaking the Silence, and Circle of Friends.

About the Author

Valerie Bell is a conference speaker and the author of Getting Out of Your Kids' Faces and Into Their Hearts, Reaching Out to Lonely Kids, and Made to Be Loved. She and her husband, Steve, live in Wheaton, Ill. They have two grown sons.

Endorsements

"Bell provides a useful guide in understanding the critical issues pertaining to global AIDS. On a deeper level, An African Awakening is an essential companion if compassionate response is a life-long goal. This book helps answer the inevitable question that arises when one experiences a transforming interaction with victims of the AIDS pandemic: Now what?"
—Steven W. Haas, vice president, World Vision United States