good from (RED)

I just read the latest (RED) blog entry. And I'm glad. This is what I like to hear about the programes and charities I invest my heart into...

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 just good to hear the good stories and testimonies that come out of things like (RED) and the Global Fund.

There is good in the world.