Saturday, November 26, 2005

Poor Ugandan women raise money for Katrina victims

In the Kireka region of Kampala, Uganda, the women work hard, breaking large rocks into small rocks. For this labor, they are paid $1.20 a day. Most of them are HIV positive and have been driven from their homes by their country's civil war.

Two hundred of them somehow raised $900 for the victims of Katrina, an act of such generosity, it is diffifult to fathom.

"When I die," a Kampala woman with AIDS said, "my children will be left like those in America. Someone will have to care for them. I want to care for someone also."