Local Sister helps soon-to-be AIDS orphans in Ethiopia
"Elizabeth Sumamo and Melanie Meardi each received a degree at the University of Alberta’s recent Fall Convocation 2006. Although they each completed different programs in the School of Public Health – Sumamo finished an MPH (Global Health) and Meardi earned an MSc (Health Promotion) – they share a passion for working with marginalized populations to improve their health and completed the practicum component of their respective programs abroad -- Sumamo in Ethiopia and Meardi in Tanzania. "Sumamo spent nearly six months working with the Hiwot HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care and Support Organization, a non-governmental organization founded in 1999 to motivate, educate, and empower Ethiopians to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS. She served as an intern on the International Memory Project, an initiative aimed at supporting children who were facing the prospect of losing their HIV-positive parents. "'My role was to help with memory work training for HIV-positive parent...