Germans cycle for HIV/AIDS awareness

  1. Posted on Thursday 11 June 2009 - 09:54
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    Sam Banda Junior, AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi Photo: AIDS activists in South Africa
    Two Germans are going on a tour in some selected Africa countries to raise funds as well as create awareness for HIV/AIDS. Immanuel Schulz, 29, and Geert Schroeder, 31, hope to make a 9,000km journey in South Africa, Kenya and Malawi among others.
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    They are now in Malawi after a cycling expedition from Cape Town in South Africa. The two hope to raise funds for an orphanage in Kenya. They said they want to raise about USD 50,000 to assist Salama Malaika Self Help Group, an orphanage based in Kenya, according to the Daily Times of Malawi.

    The orphanage provides food, shelter and education to children who lost their parents due to the HIV/Aids pandemic. The report further said that the two Germans were welcomed in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe by German Ambassador Rainer Mueller, who described their expedition as a great sacrifice for them, considering their self-employment status back in Germany.

    “You have used time, which you could have utilized to make money for your own living, to help children in Africa. This is wonderful and I hope it will encourage other young men and women both in Germany and Africa to do the same,” Mueller said.

    Apart from raising money for the Kenyan orphanage, the two Germans also want to use their adventure to create awareness about the impact of HIV/Aids in Africa to students and the general public in Germany and encourage them to do something about the problem.

    “Most people, especially the younger ones, are not aware or are not interested about the severity of HIV/Aids in Africa,” Schulz said. They left Germany on March 29 and are expected to travel back home on August 28.

    They have since already cycled through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia and will later proceed to Kenya through Tanzania from Malawi.

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