Serena Williams Makes a Trip to Africa

This week Serena Williams is hanging out in Africa as a global ambassador for Hewlett Packard. She has also partnered with HP and Build African Schools to open The Serena Williams Secondary School, a school which she helped fund in Kenya. She was also in Johannesburg, South Africa this week visiting with children infected with AIDS.

"I'm working as an HP Ambassador in Johannesburg and we are working with the Starfish Greathearts charity," Serena wrote on her website. "This charity helps give aid, care, and housing to kids with AIDS. These kids are mostly born with AIDS and they don't have the care that they need or can live with. The kids I met today were orphans. It was so sad to see them in this situation. They had so much hope and love in their eyes, yet a tinge of sadness behind their pupils bringing me to tears. ...

We had a [tennis] clinic with the kids, it was so fun. By the end of the day all the kids were laughing, smiling, and having the time of their lives!!! I was so happy for them! I saw a girl that was sooo pretty. I kept thinking she is too pretty and her personality is too big to have AIDS. It was sad to see. You realize that AIDS has no discrimination and no barriers. It pained me to see such wonderful kids with sadness in their hearts, but hope and love in their eyes."

Serena will also teach tennis to some kids in Kenya this weekend. She hasn't been to African since 2006 when she visited Ghana and Senegal. In March she went to India to represent Hewlett Packard.


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