Enter the world of AIDS and prepare to be bombarded by overwhelming statistics, confusing medical acronyms and complex global inequities. In her own conversational style, Valerie Bell crashes through the clutter as an earnest seeker bent on understanding the world's greatest humanitarian emergency and how one person can make a real difference.
Highly revealing and challenging, Bell's soulful reflections resemble intimate journal entries from a pilgrim intent on seeking God in all of His creation; a world that includes wrenching poverty, social justice, and AIDS.
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?
