Dear Andrew,

My goats are being very naughty and trying to eat the paper that I'm writing this letter to you on.Today a woman in my village who was suffering from AIDS passed away. She has two children who are now orphans. She got the disease from her husband and passed it on to her children, who now suffer from the disease. Their grandmother is now taking care of them but she is old and cannot afford the treatment. We had a volunteer here and she cried and told me that no one knows what is really going on with this disease. There are so many of my relatives who are infected and we are all very sad. Hope to hear from you soon!

Love,

Billy

Dear Billy,

Today my playstation didn't work properly and mummy said that she would get me a new one. My cousin is here to stay for the weekend and she is also very sad because she misses her daddy who died 6 years ago when some bad people flew two planes into these two very tall buildings. Mummy says that all over the world, people have to take off their shoes when they board planes and they check you all over. She says that the government will not stand for the deaths of all these people who died that day, and even now, we have to stand in long lines for checks before we board planes. Mummy is cranky now because the cable is down and she wants to watch Heroes on the television. Hope you are ok and I will pray for you.

Love,

Andrew

8000 people a day die from AIDs or HIV related disease. 3000 or more died in the September 11 disaster. Everybody know what happened. We've watched the twin towers fall again and again. We live half the world away but we know how heroic the firefighters were. How about the thousands or more volunteers in Africa, the grandmothers who are looking after their grandchildren whose parents have died from AIDS. Aren't they Heroes too?

Is there a difference in the value of a life born in a poor rural village in Africa and another born in New York?

For more information, visit this website: http://www.onelife.org.sg/