International Opportunities

In 2010, Kimberly Vrudny and Robert Strusinski hope to offer a 300-level theology course in Cape Town and Guguletu, South Africa, called: "Theological Reflection: AIDS, Apartheid, and the Arts of Resistance." If offered, the course will provide students a rare opportunity to learn about HIV/AIDS response in post-Apartheid South Africa, by visiting community centers, hospices, clinics, senior centers, and orphanages responding to the crisis, even as they consider how literature, music, drama, and the visual arts have enabled the people to resist political oppression and unspeakable suffering. This would be the second group accompanying Vrudny and Strusinski on the journey. The first group went in 2008. You can read their blog at http://blog.stthomas.edu/hiv-aids.

In addition to her work in South Africa, Kimberly Vrudny has worked to raise funds for a memory book project to preserve family histories and memories for children orphaned by AIDS in China. For more information about this project, see the China Memory Book Project here: http://www.chfaidsorphans.com/memorybook/English/index.html.