Mimie Hanson

A Child Connecting Mimie Hanson

In the year 2000 rock singer Bonoteamed up with Computer whiz Billionaire Bill Gates to send help to Africanpeople living with HIV.¿ In recent monthsOprah Winfrey spent time with orphaned children whose parents have died in HIV. Americais ever helpful to the needy, in this case people of Africa.¿ Why are Africans not lifting a hand to helpthemselves, when young women are being infected with HIV before the age of 18?This book chronicles the life ofa child determined to survive and overcome an out dated culture as she speaksclearly saying,"I was not allowed to speak mymind.¿ I was in training to become thetypical African woman whose feelings were not to be known and wishes wererelegated to the background.¿ I was tobecome subservient in marriage. I was busy learning to survive aworld more conducive for adults than for children.¿ It was an outright dangerous place for younggirls.¿ I had to learn to fight the menwho practiced an age-old custom of having their way with young girls.¿ It was an open secret not discussed but to beendured by its victims"