IOL: Africa moved me, says Laura Bush

"It's life-changing for me to see the real scope of what the problems are. But not only that, to be inspired by people who are dealing with these problems."...

That is exactly it ---you have to SEE what is happening there, and let that experience inform your views and politics...IOL: Africa moved me, says Laura Bush: "American First Lady Laura Bush heard a Rwandan girl tearfully describe raising her three young brothers, their father killed in the 1994 genocide and their mother dying of Aids.

She saw kilometres of South African shanty towns crowded in the shadow of Cape Town's wealth. She met women risking ostracism by flaunting their HIV-positive status as the only way to make inroads against the disease that is crippling Africa.

Moved by the orphans and many others she met on a weeklong trip, the First Lady said on Friday she would try to make sure the United States kept its promises to the world's poorest continent."