Dancing Grandma’s Are Raising Awareness
PRINCE GEORGE – More than a dozen grandma’s put on their dancing shoes for a Flash Mob at CNC Thursday afternoon, in preparation for World AIDS Day on December 1st.
The event is held in conjunction with similar flash mobs put on across the globe in honour of African grandmothers who are struggling to care for millions of orphaned children with HIV and AIDS.
There are roughly 14 million orphaned children with HIV and AIDS across Sub-Saharan Africa today. In some countries, up to 60 percent of those children live in a home where the Grandmother is the head of the household.
Kathie Hilder, the Prince George flash mob coordinator explains why raising awareness for this campaign still matters.