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Article: Aids poses new challenges for Wales-Lesotho link.(Update)
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- For A Change
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- February 1, 2004
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DOLEN CYMRU--the Wales Lesotho Link--grew out of a desire to see if Wales could make its own direct contribution to world understanding, in particular in bridging the North-South gap. Although a great deal of its activity is now in the fields of education and health, church links have always played an important part--not least because Dolen Cymru's first President was Gwilym O Williams, one of the last century's great Archbishops of Wales.
In an article in the link's first Newsletter in 1985, Dr Williams wrote, 'While we want the link to be of real benefit to Lesotho ... we also see the link as necessary for Wales. We have a fine tradition of care for other small ...