If you mention the name Harold Cherry anywhere in Chicago and in certain places around the country, you will find that he is a highly regarded HIV/AIDS prevention and education specialist --- most notably for his work at The South Side Help Center. The My Sisters Keeper News Team visited The South Side Help Center recently, to kick of a series of educational share-ables, featuring Mr. Cherry himself.
Harold shared with us, how an early 80's experience with a close uncle dying of AIDS, drove him down the path he has been on for the last 15 years --- provoking him to become educated so that he could educate other family members who were finding it necessary to mistreat their own relative for lack of knowledge.
He then later had to spend some time in rehab dealing with his own deamons, upon the completion of which, he was offered a part time position as a peer educator at The Henry Booth House --- where he would be allowed to use everything he learned in support of his uncle, and build on it --- and begin a passionate affair that could never end.
15 years later, his passion is still strong, as evidenced in the level of creativity that is laced into everything that he does. And so... over the months to come, we will have the pleasure of sharing much of Harold's works and to actually experience doing his life's work, live and in action.
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