It’s only two months until my next trip to Swaziland. Our team will leave the US on March 2nd and return on March 13th. We will be visiting multiple ‘Orphanage Care Points’ where we have current projects, seeing new ones, ministering in baby rescue shelters, and going to several AIDS hospitals.

It is true that HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest pandemics known to civilization. "Somebody is infected with the HIV virus every 8 seconds, equivalent to 11,000 infections worldwide every day, while another 8,000 infected people die, the two agencies said in a joint annual report "2006 AIDS Epidemic Update". Read about this further at Alertnet.org.

Sub-Saharan Africa, which recorded 2.8 million new infections, still bears the brunt of the AIDS scourge, with 24.7 million people living with HIV, according to the recent UN 2006 AIDS Epidemic Report. But Swaziland has suffered worse than all of the contries with an infection rate that soars about 45%.

We’ll go to partner with other great organizations, like Adventures in Missions, and rebuild the country one life at a time. Tomorrow I’ll discuss the impact HIV is having on Swaziland and what it is doing to ravish the country.