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Stephen Lewis inspires, challenges
Lynda Hiliman-Rapley
Lakeshore Advance
One of the hest orators mar-
rying the most important top-
ics of today was how Paul
Ciufo, describes his experience
Friday as he listened to
Stephen Lewis.
Ciufo, Rotary member and
moderator for the event notes
Stephen Lewis is one of Cana-
da's most influential commen-
tators on social affairs, interna-
tional development and
human rights. Ile researches
his speeches with obsessive
care, enlivens them with per-
sonal anecdotes, and is never
ashamed to be both passionate
and emotional. Most compel-
ling perhaps, is the way in
which Lewis engages, moves
and motivates his audience so
that they emerge challenged
and energized. Ile did not dis-
appoint at the Grand Bend
Rotary event at the Huron
Country Playhouse.
Former NDP leader, Lewis is
a veteran diplomat and
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humanitarian wanted to touch
on not only the victims we are
faced with every day, but also
and maybe especially the HIV/
AIDS victims in Africa, and
what we can do to help. Ile
spoke about the environment
and he spoke about Millen-
nium Development Goals.
Lewis told the crowd that
exceeded 500 people its the
30th anniversary of the first
world bulletin written June
1981 about the first case of
Aids. "And we are making
progress," he said. He said with
education and treatment, an
impact is being made. One is
that if women's sexuality in
Africa wasn't under assault, if
women were able to say no, if
women weren't subject to
predatory attacks by then, or
predatory behaviour generally,
then you would have a disease
in Africa called AIDS. But you
wouldn't have a pandemic. "We
know how to defeat this pan-
demic," he says, "We have all
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