Dear Diary

Being a teenager is hard enough. Being a teenager with AIDS in South Africa must be the hardest life imaginable. I can't wait to hear about this life on the radio, when Joe Richman's latest documentary - Thembi’s AIDS Diary - is broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered this coming Wednesday, April 19th.

Joe Richman's radio projects give voice to those who never get a chance to be heard. And we get a chance to listen in to a life that is a world apart, but closer than we think.

For the last year Thembi carried around a tape recorder and kept an audio diary of what it's like as a 19-year-old South African with AIDS.

You can check out info about the project and Thembi's tour at Radio Diaries.