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07-10-05, 09:39 PM
Ashley Judd and India.Arie join the fight against AIDS
Ashley Judd and India.Arie will do everything they can to help Africa, battle the deadly disease AIDS. Filming a moving AIDS documentary TRACKING THE MONSTER in Africa has left both women intensely moved by what they witnessed.
In one scene, actress Judd is brought to tears when she witnesses the squalor street prostitutes live in while selling mainly unprotected sex in Madagascar.
"I thought I couldn't be shocked any more. I can be moved, I can be distressed but I can't be shocked; I've seen it all. Bullc**p," Judd was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, RandB singer India.Arie was personally invited by former South African leader NELSON MANDELA to visit Kenya's AIDS shelters and orphanages, where she met people living with the disease.
"I could name off 50 adjectives... I was way taken aback. That was a lot to see and I felt like that moment was why I travelled for 24 hours to get to Kenya - to see that," India.Arie said.
She spent time with AIDS sufferer IMMACULATE, who was diagnosed HIV-positive in February (05) and needs constant treatment for sores which build up on her face and in her mouth.
"Not only is she HIV-positive and I've never been that close to a person that sick, but we're the same age." Of the trip, the singer says, "I have changed in a more profound way than I even thought possible."
Also Judd has "radically altered" her spending habits so she can give more money to AIDS charities.
The actress has signed up as a Youth AIDS ambassador and admits the experience of seeing AIDS victims on her travels around the world has made her realise just how important raising cash for her chosen charities is - and she's finding ways to give more.
Judd explains, "I know what USD 20 can do, what USD 600 can do, what USD 1 million can do, so I've radically altered my own spending - I will stay at the airport hotel rather than the USD 350-a-night one, and then I'll take the extra money and invest it to accrue interest, so I can later donate it."
And she's no longer interested in shopping: "I have so much s**t. I don't need more."
Ashley Judd and India.Arie will do everything they can to help Africa, battle the deadly disease AIDS. Filming a moving AIDS documentary TRACKING THE MONSTER in Africa has left both women intensely moved by what they witnessed.
In one scene, actress Judd is brought to tears when she witnesses the squalor street prostitutes live in while selling mainly unprotected sex in Madagascar.
"I thought I couldn't be shocked any more. I can be moved, I can be distressed but I can't be shocked; I've seen it all. Bullc**p," Judd was quoted as saying.
Meanwhile, RandB singer India.Arie was personally invited by former South African leader NELSON MANDELA to visit Kenya's AIDS shelters and orphanages, where she met people living with the disease.
"I could name off 50 adjectives... I was way taken aback. That was a lot to see and I felt like that moment was why I travelled for 24 hours to get to Kenya - to see that," India.Arie said.
She spent time with AIDS sufferer IMMACULATE, who was diagnosed HIV-positive in February (05) and needs constant treatment for sores which build up on her face and in her mouth.
"Not only is she HIV-positive and I've never been that close to a person that sick, but we're the same age." Of the trip, the singer says, "I have changed in a more profound way than I even thought possible."
Also Judd has "radically altered" her spending habits so she can give more money to AIDS charities.
The actress has signed up as a Youth AIDS ambassador and admits the experience of seeing AIDS victims on her travels around the world has made her realise just how important raising cash for her chosen charities is - and she's finding ways to give more.
Judd explains, "I know what USD 20 can do, what USD 600 can do, what USD 1 million can do, so I've radically altered my own spending - I will stay at the airport hotel rather than the USD 350-a-night one, and then I'll take the extra money and invest it to accrue interest, so I can later donate it."
And she's no longer interested in shopping: "I have so much s**t. I don't need more."