Archive for December, 2006

The US Challenge will be shown on Versus (formerly OLN) on December 25th. Check out this flyer for more information and additional broadcast dates.

Sean Astin, star of movies Rudy and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, has the following to say about Lusaka Sunrise:

“Lusaka Sunrise leverages all of the powerful elements of cinema, from music to imagery, narrative pacing and on and on in such a way that literally no one, …

From forbes.com

In 2002, Ethan Zohn was voted the “sole survivor” and winner of the CBS reality show Survivor: Africa. He is a former professional soccer player and works as a television sports commentator.

I don’t know if anything can really prepare you for Survivor, but since I …

While in Malta, Ethan’s World Challenge Teammate Brennan finds someone who looks very familiar…

The results are in and the St. Jude Reality All-Stars team finished 13th in their first ever World Team Challenge. Only one other US team finished ahead of them - just ahead in 12th place.

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Ethan will be in Malta December 7th-10th to compete in the World Team Challenge with fellow Survivors Hunter Ellis and Burton Roberts and Amazing Race winners Brennan Swain and Alex Boylan.

Want to know what it’s like working with GRS to help education African youth about HIV and AIDS? Check out these blogs:

Meredith in Zambia
Jessika in Africa

From the Portsmouth Herald
By Emily Aronson

Tate Alexander has given speeches talking about the pain, the grief and the fear that come with having AIDS. But at a World AIDS Day service on Friday, Alexander just wanted to say thank you.

“Thank you to all of you for showing up. …

From the Portsmouth Herald

Friday is World AIDS Day. It is a time for remembering those who have been lost to this dreaded disease and those who are living with it and its precursor, HIV. It is also a time to renew our commitment to work to end this …

The Good News Network
by geri

25-year-old filmmaker Silas Hagerty spent this summer in Zambia documenting the rise of football (soccer) as a tool to fight HIV/AIDS in local African communities.

As Zambian Football announcer Denis Lewewe states in Hagerty’s new film, “Football is religion.” When a soccer ball hits the …