Monday, November 26, 2007

From a continent away, a boy finds a friend

Sunday, November 25, 2007

By Lisa O'Donnell
JOURNAL REPORTER


Help flows to Kenyan AIDS kids

NAIROBI, Kenya - Clive sat tight-lipped and bashful between Alice Nesbitt and her daughter, Rebekah, in a bus filled with Americans and Kenyan orphans.

As they rode through the chaotic streets of Nairobi to a zoo, Nesbitt pointed out dump trucks and airplanes to 5-year-old Clive. Slowly, she pierced his wall of silence.

The two were an unlikely pair. Nesbitt, who lived a comfortable life in Winston-Salem, had never been to Africa. Clive was a little boy with HIV whose family abandoned him when his mother died during childbirth.

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