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Chris Tucker Awed by AIDS Awareness Program in Ethiopia;
Jumps in with Bono to Join High-School Assembly
From left to right: Yonathan Fikre of Save the Children's Addis office, Bono, Chris Tucker and Ethiopia Field Office Director Dennis Walto.
During a recent fact-finding trip to Africa, "Rush Hour" star Chris Tucker joined Bono, lead singer of U2, in a rousing sing-along and dance segment during a high-school assembly packed with Ethiopian students learning about sexual reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS prevention, through a Save the Children program.
Tucker and Bono visited Save the Children programs in Ethiopia and Uganda as part of a trip by the celebrities and US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to see first-hand how U.S.-funded humanitarian assistance is working, and how poverty can be addressed through increased international assistance. The trip came on the heels of President Bush's promise of a new U.S. commitment to boost international aid by $10 billion in 2004-06 through the Millennium Challenge Account.
Bono and Tucker rock reproductive health assembly in Ethiopia
The air was electric as Bono and Tucker entered a packed auditorium in Addis Ketema High School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Hundreds of parents and high-school students clapped and stomped their feet as they joined in a school assembly on adolescent reproductive sexual health. The rally included songs, dancing, testimonials and a play by the school's Adolescent Reproductive Health Club.
The celebrities were treated to a rousing dance routine, which first started on stage and then gathered in front of Bono and Tucker in the front row of the auditorium. The crowd roared and clapped as Bono and Tucker jumped up and danced, too. Bono took the microphone and sang to the audience, perched on a folding chair (view QuickTime* video) or (Windows video). The reproductive health club then presented a drama about the basic "ABC's" (view QuickTime video clip in Amharic, a language of Ethiopia) for staying healthy and safe -- Abstinence, Be Faithful, use a Condom. Youth rallies and peer-based reproductive health initiatives are a regular part of a Save the Children program funded by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Save the Children launched an adolescent reproductive health awareness program in 1997 to a select group of 20 students and five teachers at one high school in Addis Ababa. The program was such a success that Ethiopia's Bureaus of Health and Education requested that Save the Children expand it to all government high schools in Addis Ababa, with the long-term goal of integrating these activities into the official school curriculum. Save the Children now supports adolescent reproductive health clubs in all 28 government high schools in Addis Ababa, and has trained a total of 1,700 students and teachers in safe reproductive health practices.
Through its worldwide adolescent reproductive health programs, Save the Children is working to increase access to youth-friendly health services and to empower young people with improved knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviors that enable them to make positive choices regarding their own health.
Eleanor is a 35-year-old teacher who lives in Kampala, Uganda with her three daughters in a 100-square-foot house that has no running water and an outhouse that is shared with the community. She was diagnosed as HIV-positive seven years ago, but still teaches to support her children and pay for their schooling so they can live a better life and support themselves. Eleanor is divorced; her two oldest children live with their father.
On a recent hot, sunny morning Eleanor sat outside her home and talked with her guests, Bono and Tucker, telling them what it's like to be an HIV-positive mother. Surrounded by 19-year-old Mabel, 16-year-old Maureen and 6-year-old Margaret, Eleanor said she has tried to remain healthy through proper nutrition and by keeping a positive outlook. But, she said the she can't afford the drugs she needs to prevent her from contracting full-blown AIDS. So, she prepares her children for the time when she may not be around to guide their decisions. Mabel knows that the responsibility of caring for her two younger sisters will fall to her.
Eleanor says she has found great comfort in preparing for this scenario by creating for each of her children a "memory book," in which she keeps mementoes of her daughters and their family history. She learned how to create these books through a Save the Children/UK-sponsored workshop, which helps mothers and their children cope psychologically with the scenario of having a parent die from AIDS.
Eleanor shared the memory book that she had created for Mabel with Bono and Tucker. She pointed out the pages that showed her likes and dislikes, Mabel's first day of school, and the family tree - including photos of Mabel's great-great grandparents. The book included a page dedicated to Eleanor's hopes and dreams for what Mabel could become as an adult -- an accountant, a teacher or a nurse. She also showed with pride a page with photos of herself receiving her certificate for becoming a teacher.
**This impromtu performance has been captured by MTV and will be broadcast on August 22nd on the television show "Diary." Check your local listings for show times.
Chris Tucker Awed by AIDS Awareness Program in Ethiopia;
Jumps in with Bono to Join High-School Assembly
From left to right: Yonathan Fikre of Save the Children's Addis office, Bono, Chris Tucker and Ethiopia Field Office Director Dennis Walto.
During a recent fact-finding trip to Africa, "Rush Hour" star Chris Tucker joined Bono, lead singer of U2, in a rousing sing-along and dance segment during a high-school assembly packed with Ethiopian students learning about sexual reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS prevention, through a Save the Children program.
Tucker and Bono visited Save the Children programs in Ethiopia and Uganda as part of a trip by the celebrities and US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to see first-hand how U.S.-funded humanitarian assistance is working, and how poverty can be addressed through increased international assistance. The trip came on the heels of President Bush's promise of a new U.S. commitment to boost international aid by $10 billion in 2004-06 through the Millennium Challenge Account.
Bono and Tucker rock reproductive health assembly in Ethiopia
The air was electric as Bono and Tucker entered a packed auditorium in Addis Ketema High School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Hundreds of parents and high-school students clapped and stomped their feet as they joined in a school assembly on adolescent reproductive sexual health. The rally included songs, dancing, testimonials and a play by the school's Adolescent Reproductive Health Club.
The celebrities were treated to a rousing dance routine, which first started on stage and then gathered in front of Bono and Tucker in the front row of the auditorium. The crowd roared and clapped as Bono and Tucker jumped up and danced, too. Bono took the microphone and sang to the audience, perched on a folding chair (view QuickTime* video) or (Windows video). The reproductive health club then presented a drama about the basic "ABC's" (view QuickTime video clip in Amharic, a language of Ethiopia) for staying healthy and safe -- Abstinence, Be Faithful, use a Condom. Youth rallies and peer-based reproductive health initiatives are a regular part of a Save the Children program funded by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Save the Children launched an adolescent reproductive health awareness program in 1997 to a select group of 20 students and five teachers at one high school in Addis Ababa. The program was such a success that Ethiopia's Bureaus of Health and Education requested that Save the Children expand it to all government high schools in Addis Ababa, with the long-term goal of integrating these activities into the official school curriculum. Save the Children now supports adolescent reproductive health clubs in all 28 government high schools in Addis Ababa, and has trained a total of 1,700 students and teachers in safe reproductive health practices.
Through its worldwide adolescent reproductive health programs, Save the Children is working to increase access to youth-friendly health services and to empower young people with improved knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviors that enable them to make positive choices regarding their own health.
Eleanor is a 35-year-old teacher who lives in Kampala, Uganda with her three daughters in a 100-square-foot house that has no running water and an outhouse that is shared with the community. She was diagnosed as HIV-positive seven years ago, but still teaches to support her children and pay for their schooling so they can live a better life and support themselves. Eleanor is divorced; her two oldest children live with their father.
On a recent hot, sunny morning Eleanor sat outside her home and talked with her guests, Bono and Tucker, telling them what it's like to be an HIV-positive mother. Surrounded by 19-year-old Mabel, 16-year-old Maureen and 6-year-old Margaret, Eleanor said she has tried to remain healthy through proper nutrition and by keeping a positive outlook. But, she said the she can't afford the drugs she needs to prevent her from contracting full-blown AIDS. So, she prepares her children for the time when she may not be around to guide their decisions. Mabel knows that the responsibility of caring for her two younger sisters will fall to her.
Eleanor says she has found great comfort in preparing for this scenario by creating for each of her children a "memory book," in which she keeps mementoes of her daughters and their family history. She learned how to create these books through a Save the Children/UK-sponsored workshop, which helps mothers and their children cope psychologically with the scenario of having a parent die from AIDS.
Eleanor shared the memory book that she had created for Mabel with Bono and Tucker. She pointed out the pages that showed her likes and dislikes, Mabel's first day of school, and the family tree - including photos of Mabel's great-great grandparents. The book included a page dedicated to Eleanor's hopes and dreams for what Mabel could become as an adult -- an accountant, a teacher or a nurse. She also showed with pride a page with photos of herself receiving her certificate for becoming a teacher.
**This impromtu performance has been captured by MTV and will be broadcast on August 22nd on the television show "Diary." Check your local listings for show times.
