The (RED) team broke bread with Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine in Los Angeles yesterday. It was yet another special event to mark the anniversary of our US launch. Michel gave a wonderful toast in retelling a story he’d just heard from woman who works at a (RED) partner company. The story involved the great excitement that the woman and her colleague felt over hearing that an HIV positive worker at a factory in Southern Africa -- where some of the company’s (RED) products are sourced -- had just given birth to a healthy baby after receiving medicine to prevent mother to child transmission of the disease. Michel called this joy a kind of “globalized emotion,” and noted that (RED) consumers, like the (RED) company employees, make these personal connections when they purchase (RED) products and hear about individuals benefiting from the Global Fund (RED) grants in Africa. It’s a timely thought for me, as I pack my bags for a return trip to Swaziland. I’m very much looking forward to catching up with Lulu, Sibonelo, Sylvia and other (RED) shareholders. Maybe, I’ll even hear Comfortable and his choir sing again. Watch this space. Xo Tamsin
Friday, October 19, 2007
Second that Emotion
The (RED) team broke bread with Global Fund Executive Director Michel Kazatchkine in Los Angeles yesterday. It was yet another special event to mark the anniversary of our US launch. Michel gave a wonderful toast in retelling a story he’d just heard from woman who works at a (RED) partner company. The story involved the great excitement that the woman and her colleague felt over hearing that an HIV positive worker at a factory in Southern Africa -- where some of the company’s (RED) products are sourced -- had just given birth to a healthy baby after receiving medicine to prevent mother to child transmission of the disease. Michel called this joy a kind of “globalized emotion,” and noted that (RED) consumers, like the (RED) company employees, make these personal connections when they purchase (RED) products and hear about individuals benefiting from the Global Fund (RED) grants in Africa. It’s a timely thought for me, as I pack my bags for a return trip to Swaziland. I’m very much looking forward to catching up with Lulu, Sibonelo, Sylvia and other (RED) shareholders. Maybe, I’ll even hear Comfortable and his choir sing again. Watch this space. Xo Tamsin
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Do I see two of my most favorite people in the world sitting there listening intently to Mr. Kazatchkine speaking about the Global Fund?
I think that I do. (smile)
Tamsin, there are no words sufficient for me to say that can express my COMPLETE JOY in the fact that you'll be returning to Swaziland soon to assess the further progress of (RED)'s contributions to programs of the Global Fund in that beautiful country.
We definitely will be waiting for your reports to us here in (BLOG)RED regarding what you see and what you experience there.
I hope that you do get to meet Comfortable again and hear him sing.
I also hope that we get the chance this time to see you dancing with the women of Swaziland.
I'm waiting for that video. (smile)
Take very good and gentle care of each other, dear hearts. Blessings will always be around.
ALWAYS (RED) AT HEART, debbie :)
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