This is an unfiltered look inside of the life of Benta Aurino, living in the Bangladesh slum near Mombasa, Kenya, fighting a life with HIV/Aids. It is a long piece of an interview, which will be featured in an upcoming film about the Baobab Family, an NGO, mainly supporting street kids, who became orphans because of HIV/ Aids, but also having a couple of programs to create awareness for it and support the already infected people with food nutrition, medication and an open ear for their problems, as well as giving them the chance to start living again by giving them a new task in the production project.
These days with the people in the slum were heartbreaking sometimes, to see how they have to live and how they suffer under badest conditions, but also very inspiring, when you see the positive attitude they have to life and the sheer endless power to fight their life on and on again, even when things don’t work out. And also their hospitality and open friendliness. I was moved by that, especially when i was coming back to my bungalow at the beach, just a few kilometers away, but in a totally different world. Two worlds existing beside each other, but having no contact with each other.
The Baobab film will be online in the next days, so stay tuned for more.
