Sunday, June 15, 2008

Please visit if you have the chance!

It's not your typical Father's Day activity, but today we drove about an hour to see the World Vision Experience. Please, if you have the chance, visit the exhibit. It's free, self-paced, and you need about 20-30 min. per experience you see. (I went through two, and would have loved to see the others.) This is what the website says about it:

The World Vision Experience is an interactive, walk-through exhibit that will transport you into the heart of Africa--and the life of a child affected by the AIDS crisis. The exhibit combines a stirring audio tour with captivating photography to give you a whole new perspective on the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time.


We were not going to take Elizabeth in because there were some situations not being appropriate for children, but none of that was in the photos. It was all in the personal audio players, so she didn't hear it. We explained bits to her as we walked through. I know that she is not at point where she can understand it all, but I'm glad she was able to have a little more understanding of how children in other parts of the world live. David and I have been trying to learn a lot about HIV/AIDS, and this experience just really helps to bring the situations to life more than images on the t.v. or internet can.

2 comments:

Bill and Toni said...

Thanks Demarie. I didn't see any local dates - did we miss it? Where did you go? Maybe one of the PA or NC dates are close enough?
Blessings,
Toni

Demarie said...

We went down to Lexington Park. I believe there was one in Baltimore, but that one must have been earlier. I think the closest one now is in Pa, but maybe NC would be closer? They said that they have none scheduled for 2009 yet, so we're kind of interested in seeing if it would be possible to host one closer...like maybe at church ;-)