dailybulletin.com: It's a beautiful day for a Claremont-based charity, which got help from U2 singer Bono in getting a shipment of hospital beds and medicine into South Africa.
The 40-foot container of supplies for an AIDS clinic was hung up for four months by South African customs officials, who expressed such realistic concerns as whether powdered baby formula might really be heroin.
"I wrote, like, 35 letters to everyone from Nelson Mandela to Oprah Winfrey to Bono, everyone with an interest in the AIDS situation in Africa," KidCare International founder Larry Kapchinsky told me.
"The only one who responded positively was DATA, Bono's organization. They jumped on it and sent two letters to agencies in Africa." [
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The 40-foot container of supplies for an AIDS clinic was hung up for four months by South African customs officials, who expressed such realistic concerns as whether powdered baby formula might really be heroin.
"I wrote, like, 35 letters to everyone from Nelson Mandela to Oprah Winfrey to Bono, everyone with an interest in the AIDS situation in Africa," KidCare International founder Larry Kapchinsky told me.
"The only one who responded positively was DATA, Bono's organization. They jumped on it and sent two letters to agencies in Africa." [
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