But, we have told the families of both my wife and I and they have been very supportive, helping us with food and money. I am now working with a group that helps support people living with AIDS and through this, I have found some solace in being able to help others. This determined young man has a simple message for fellow Angolans. To have AIDS is terrible and we should all avoid risky behavior. At the same time, I hope that people will learn to accept people living with AIDS .
Children are the bearers of our common future - a future that is in our hands as never before.
For the world has the knowledge, the resources and the legal imperatives to give every child the best possible start in life, in a family environment that offers the love, the care and the nurturing that children need to grow, to learn - and to develop to the fullest. The entire community of nations acknowledged as much when they embraced the Convention on the Rights of the Child - and vowed, a decade ago, to fulfil the goals of the World Summit for Children. These obligations must be met, not only by governments, but by all of us. That is why we, as citizens of every nation and members of families, communities and civil society organizations of every kind, hereby resolve to help mobilise a Global Movement for Children - an unstoppable crusade to end, at long last, the poverty, ill health, violence and discrimination that has needlessly blighted and destroyed so many young lives. Our determination is rooted in the knowledge that in furthering the best interests of children, the most effective actions must come from within the context of our own lives and hearts, and from listening to children and young people themselves.