YOU VS. AIDS
You can save lives in Africa, too. Here's how and why.

You read about Scott Brookens and Nathaniel Elliott, two teens taking on AIDS in Africa. There's plenty you can do, too.

BE A REAL-WORLD REVOLUTIONARY

What can you do about the African AIDS epidemic?

Get Educated. Do some digging to learn more about the problems. Consider doing a research paper for school credit. For starters, check out lhbustrip.com, World Vision International (wvi.org), UNAIDS.org or Debt AIDS Trade Africa (data.org).

Raise Awareness—in your house, church, school, city, community and state. Why not start talking to others and sharing the facts that you know?

Participate. Do something. Get involved. What are your gifts? Ask God for guidance to make a difference.

Partner. Donate money. Join with a ministry. Get some friends or your youth group together and do a fundraiser of your own. Sell lemonade or candy bars, wash cars or climb a mountain. Then give the proceeds to a ministry serving AIDS victims.

Sponsor an African Child. For about $1 a day, you can provide a kid in an AIDS-ravaged area with education, nourishment, health care and the opportunity to learn about Jesus. Check out Compassion International (compassion.com) and World Vision (worldvision.org)

Pray—for the people of Africa (health, education and rise out of poverty); for the ministries that are serving; for the money and manpower to provide schools and health care all over Africa; for a cure to stop this dreaded disease; for God to change and heal lives and for you to discern and follow God’s leading in changing your world.

DEADLY NUMBERS

Did you know? . . .

• that there were 25.8 million in sub-Saharan Africa infected with HIV/AIDS—that’s more than 60 percent of all people living with AIDS in an area where only about 10 percent of the world’s  people live.

• that an estimated 3.2 million people in the region became infected with HIV in 2005, while 2.4 million died of AIDS.

• that about 12 million African children under 17 have lost one or both parents to AIDS.

• that 2 million Africans died of AIDS in 2005—that’s about 5,500 each day, 229 per hour or four every minute.

[All stats according to UNAIDS, the United Nations’ joint program on HIV/AIDS]

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

Read NATHANIEL ELLIOTT'S story, THE YOUNG VISIONARY who sparked the bus tour. Find out how YOU CAN BEAT AIDS IN AFRICA. Check out the LIVING HOPE BUS TOUR WEB SITE. Learn more about the guys' passion for Africa and watch videos from their journey. MEET MORE WORLD-CHANGERS, guys willing to let God use them to revolutionize the world around them. Jars of Clay’s BLOOD:WATER MISSION is working to provide clean drinking water and clean blood supplies in Africa. ONETRUTH CLOTHING is donating proceeds from its Seeds of Hope T-shirt to bring relief to Africans. Find stories about both online.