Chance Meeting Inspired Me to Get Involved with Helping Children ; (1) Former Hostage Terry Waite Explains Why the One to One Charity Means so Much to Him (2) Just the Job

Evening Standard - London › May 03, 2005

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EVEN after six years of my involvement with One to One, the coincidence of how it came about still seems extraordinary - as though it was meant to be.

In my capacity as an official of the Church of England, I frequently visited South Africa and had become increasingly alarmed at how the government there was turning a blind eye to the massive problem of HIV and Aids. There appeared to be a deep denial of the problem right through the whole continent; there were so many women and children who were not getting treatment or any kind of help at all.

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Chance Meeting Inspired Me to Get Involved with Helping Children ; (1) Former Hostage Terry Waite Explains Why the One to One Charity Means so Much to Him (2) Just the Job

Almost every time I had been in Cape Town, I went along to the Big and Tall shop, which, as its name suggests, sells clothes for those who, like myself at 6ft 7in, find it hard to get nice stuff to fit them. I always enjoyed chatting to th...

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