3rd Grade Poem

Written on this 3rd grade blackboard at one of the schools we work at every week is a poem about children with HIV/AIDS. Recited by the children every day, it talks about how they should not tease or discriminate against children who are HIV+. This is a big issue at the school, where there are dozens of children who are infected with AIDS. In spite of the teachers' best efforts, these children still bear the brunt of relentless teasing by many of the other kids, adding to the huge burden of knowing that you carry in your body a disease that will end your life for too soon.

Pray that God would allow us to help these children find acceptance and love that they need in Him.