Co-founder Joanna Breitstein

Now, I had actually met Pastor Paddy back in 2001. I was working at a business healthcare magazine (where I still work today) and was also the webmaster. He e-mailed looking for AIDS information. I sent him some links, but also let him know about Pfizer's Diflucan program--where the company gave away free drugs that helped manage some nasty HIV-related illnesses. He hadn't heard of the program, but ended up taking some children there. And they got a bit better--that was a really wonderful.

We kept in touch. And a few years later, I applied for a Kaiser Foundation grant to go to Uganda. I had never applied to anything like that before. But guess what. I was one of 10 journalists in the world that won--and in October 2004 I took a flight to Uganda.

I got to meet Paddy, and eat with his family of a beautiful wife and nine adopted children each Sunday. And Paddy took me to visit the clinics. And he took me into the homes of AIDS patients. And I saw how children of not more than 7 were now mothers and fathers to their brothers and sisters.

But far most touching was attending the children's program on Saturday. Children who lived out on the street--or from home to home, or other situations--filed in a few at a time to spend few hours of song, football, or just being children. I was inspired that something like this meant so much.