A welcome in Uganda. The Grandmothers Campaign is “like a fire that has spread.” | photo: Twesigye Jackson Kaguri / Stephen Lewis Foundation

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grandmothers to grandmothers

by Frances Rooney | December 1, 2008

On March 7, 2006, the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched its Grandmothers Campaign to respond to Africa’s AIDS epidemic. Today, there are 220 Grandmother groups with more than 8,000 members in Canada. They work to support “grandmothers from Africa, who have humbled us with their super-human responses to unbearable sorrow and hardship” – women who nurse their dying adult children, and raise grandchildren with little help. “A continent in tatters was being stitched back together by grandmothers.”  read more