Letters from Overseas: HIV/AIDS. garbage disposal, and other matters

Notes: The author, a librarian and Volunteer in Mission from the diocese of Montreal, is working at Newton Theological College, in Papua New Guinea. She describes a powerful speaker at the College. "Fr. Nicholas (Anglican priest) from Zimbabwe, who was doing a training workshop on AIDS/HIV. This man is training church people and teachers by telling them about the Zimbabwean experience: how the church shut its eyes and ears to the virus, refused to talk about the sexual connection, refused to endorse the use of condoms and now is reaping the awful harvest of those decisions". She also describes how garbage disposal is handled at the College and the concern that the College has polluted a local water source. She will soon start teaching an advanced English course for the wives of students.

Subjects: Wheeler, Jennifer; Volunteers in Mission - Anglican Church of Canada; Newton Theological College (Popondetta, Papua New Guinea); Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. Diocese of Port Moresby; AIDS (Disease) - Papua New Guinea; AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea; AIDS (Disease) - Zimbabwe; AIDS (Disease) - Religious aspects - Church of the Province of Central Africa; Refuse and refusal disposal - Papua New Guinea; Ecology - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea