OUR STORY | beginnings

Written by Sharon Clack (founder/president of the love organization)

About a week before my daughter Tirsha and I embarked on a trip to South Africa to visit family and friends in 2004 it became apparent that God was directing me to contact some people I had not spoken to for many years. This call, and subsequent events, culminated in a relationship with Lily of the Valley, a struggling little AIDS orphanage in KwaZulu south Africa. Immediately evident, was the quality of this incredible place, administered with great integrity but also their great need. A vision was born that it might well become a way of directly responding to the AIDS crisis. Certainly we saw it as a way... continue reading