Bauer directs in the Archdiocese of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. The Catholic Church in East Africa has been in the forefront of AIDS education, treatment and care, said Fr. His own staff includes nurses, counselors and a physician. They died, now they're living with a third set of foster parents. It's an entire generation of African children growing up without parental care.
Financial contributions are one obvious way.
They can be sent to Catholic Relief Services, in care of World Mission Services, Diocese of Green Bay, P.O. Box 23825, Green Bay 54305. The money will be used to provide health care workers and drugs and to make sure people receiving the drugs are eating at least 1,000 calories a day. Africa desperately needs the financial help of American Catholics, he said, but they need our prayers even more. That's something we each can do and that we're each called to do.