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Bahamian Saints AIDS victims in the Bahamas find hope words and photos by Briana Bramm Entertainment Editor

Joanne Bannister Joanne first came to All Saint’s around 2005, but initially only stayed for eight months.

“They forced me to come, and that’s a big mistake to force somebody to come before they’re good and ready, and I wasn’t ready so I went back on the streets.” She said.

“I left and I went back on the streets, it wasn’t easy. In the process of being on the street I got raped once, I slept in trucks, cars, on the side of my friends house on the dirt

road…my family wasn’t very supportive then.”

Joanne is 50 and has been living with HIV for 10 years.

“I know how I got it, I know when I got it and I know who I got it from. And I accept that, it was my own fault.”

In March of 2009, Joanne returned to the camp and has been clean from drugs for a year and six months.

“I came back because I wanted to. Because if I didn’t want to I wouldn’t be here, I’d be back on the streets smoking dope. I’d probably be somewhere sitting smoking dope right now.”

Joanne gives credit for her turn around from drugs and living on the streets to God and his faithfulness in her life, even when she wasn’t looking for him.

“I also accepted my savior (Jesus Christ). He’s always been in my life though; Christ has always been there… sometimes even when I was doing the drugs I would get dressed and go to church, but I didn’t understand the purpose of being there. Now I do, and I’m getting to know more about him each and every day.

The biggest motivation for Joanne to get back on her feet is her 14 year-old daughter Madison Bannister, who is

admittedly very proud of her mother.

“My mommy, so many things are wonderful about her…all the obstacles she’s overcome, and having me, she’s really good.” said Madison. “Me and my mommy are very, very close, I tell her everything.”

Like her mother, Madison dreams of having a complete family one day.

“I dream about it, and sometimes in the mornings I just wake up and cry because I don’t wake up in a bed with my mommy. I sit down and cry and then pray.”

Joanne has told her whole story to Madison, the good and the bad and Madison accepts her mother just as she is.

“It makes me so happy that my daughter knows, she knows I did drugs, she knows I have HIV, and she doesn’t love me any less…she’s my world.” said Joanne.

Joanne usually sees her daughter Madison once a week, when friends or family bring Madison by the camp. The two of them talk on the phone nearly every night and they look forward to living together in the future.

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Sitting at Starbucks on Paradise Island, sipping an iced vanilla latte and admiring the 30-foot yachts, I couldn’t get out of my head how I started off my day carrying water to HIV/AIDS victims 12 miles down the road.

It’s not how most 21-year-olds spend their summer in the Bahamas.

The All Saints Camp is a leper-colony-turned-HIV/ AIDS-refuge that is home to more than 30 residents. Some living there are seeking a hand up while trying to get back on their feet, while others are so sick that they have no hope of leaving.

This summer, I was able to spend two weeks visiting the camp and meeting some of the amazing people who live there.

I originally went to the Bahamas to help with a summer day camp program for Bahamian children, but by the second week I found myself completely drawn to the All Saints AIDS Camp and the people living there.

During my visit, I got to talk to four residents about their personal lives, and learned that while each of them have different stories, they each seemed to have one common denominator: They find their hope and strength in God. Here are four of those residents’ stories.

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Miss Moxey While in her early 20s, Miss Moxey lived with her boyfriend Tom who was HIV positive, and together they had three children.

While Miss Moxey and Tom had plans for the future, things changed.

“I was going to get married, but Tommy died.” She recalled.

A few years later, after finding out she was positive

Natasha Cash After suffering three major strokes and a botched brain surgery, Natasha has a difficult time communicating.

At 40 years old, Natasha cannot currently walk or speak clearly after undergoing a brain operation that ended up doing more harm than good.

“I used to do everything for myself before the surgery.” She recalls. “After the operation, I could not walk.”

While not being able to get out of bed is frustrating for her, Natasha is slowly getting stronger and her goal is to be walking again by this Christmas.

Born and raised in the Bahamas, Natasha was the oldest in her family. She first came to live at All

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Vincent Wallace Having perhaps the most drastic turnaround of all the residents in the camp, Vincent Wallace went

for HIV, Miss Moxey was moved to the All Saints Camp.

Perhaps the most well known of the All Saints residents, Jackie Moxey, or “Miss Moxey” as she is affectionately known, has now been living at the camp for over 20 years.

Despite living in an 8x10 foot room and suffering the effects of full-blown AIDS, Miss Moxey is constantly joyful, giving thanks for every single day she has.

“Thank God for life!” she reminds everyone who comes to visit her. “We have so much to be thankful for. I mean consider all the other places where they have no food, where they’re naked.”

“Consider us, where we have everything, but we still complain. We still find things to complain about. Look up! And give thanks! Little children

around the world don’t have these things.”

Growing up in a Christian home, Miss Moxey says her faith didn’t become personal until she moved to All Saints.

“When I moved here [to All Saints] I got baptized…

God turned my life around, and that was so appealing to me. I used to continually drink (alcohol) and God changed my life.”

While Miss Moxey can no longer walk, she faithfully comes down to the church services every Saturday in her wheelchair.

When asked if she is ever angry with life or God for her sickness, Miss Moxey vehemently shakes her head. “No, no, no…God gave me the love and the mercy, despite all of the differences, what you see happening around the world, happening around us, look up! Continually be looking up.”

Saints at 19 years old, but left to go back to her abusive husband after awhile.

“He used to beat me plenty when he’d get drunk.” She remembers of her husband, who is responsible for giving her the AIDS virus.

Ironically, her husband came to All Saints during the period that Natasha was away and currently lives on the other side of the camp.

Natasha has been back living at All Saints for about three years.

from selling drugs and committing armed robbery, to living and preaching at an AIDS camp.

Because of complications with both HIV and the toxoplasmosis disease that attacks the nervous system, Vince has now gone completely blind.

In his youth years, Vince had a passion for basketball that led to him quitting school and playing with the Bahamas Basketball Association, or BBA. While in the sports world, Vince began to hang out with friends who were doing drugs, molesting girls and robbing on a regular basis. Vince soon found himself adopting much of the same behaviors.

With the drugs making him fearless, Vince began to steal openly, robbing tourists right in front of police officers, which began a cycle of drugs, robbery, convictions and jail time that came to an end in 1995 when Vince was sentenced to nine years in prison.

While he was in prison, Vince saw what he believed to be a vision from God in the form of two angels, an angel of light and an angel of darkness. Immediately calling out to the men in the cell across from him, Vince asked how to accept God into his life.

“I said ‘hey boy, tell me how the repentance prayer go!’ And after that, that was it…I know it was God talking to me…next thing I know, I was preaching.

God used me right in the prison to bring plenty

fellows to him, and bring some stability in the prison.”

From there, Vince decided to combine his past with the present and start a prison basketball league.

“The Lord gave me a revelation on how he could bring some peace to the prison in the summer time, start a basketball league.”

The basketball teams grew to eventually include all the inmates, including men on death row.

After getting out five years later with a commitment to change his life, in two years Vince landed back in prison for drug use again.

Pretty soon, Vince began suffering severe headaches and suddenly one day he woke up and his vision was gone. However when he told people he couldn’t see, no one believed him.

Eventually, he was rushed to the hospital, where doctors were amazed he had not died from his condition.

“The doctor told me I was supposed to be dead, the people pronounced me dead…they done had me counted out. But God said ‘Hey, I can use you mighty, now what I want you to do is share my love. Because only love can get you to where you is today.” He said.

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The summer aquatic Grad student spends a week in the Gulf of Mexico Chris Malinowski started his summer in Fort Pierce, focusing on his graduate research: the feeding habits of wild dolphins in the Bahamas. That is, until an e-mail came along.

Scientists at the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI), FAU’s marine research campus in Ft. Pierce, sent the early July e-mail. They were recruiting students for the last leg of a month-long expedition to explore the Gulf for potential effects of oil.

“To work on the research vessel is something I’ve wanted to do since I came to FAU,” said Malinowski, a graduate marine biology student. “When the opportunity came along, I decided to jump on it.”

From Aug. 2 to 9, Malinowski and six other grad students got academic credit for their work in the Gulf, finishing up the research expedition known as Florida Shelf Edge Exploration (FloSEE).

According to Dennis Hanisak, a research professor and Director of Education Programs at HBOI, the goal of the trip, which was funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), was to conduct a time-sensitive expedition to assess Special Edition • www.upressonline.com • University Press •August 31, 2010 • 10

ABOVE: The Johnson-Sea-Link II rises to the surface. This summer, the submersible dove twice a day in the Gulf of Mexico and collected crucial data for researchers studying the BP oil spill.

During the dives, it searched the Gulf floor and took corals and fish back to the surface.

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RIGHT: Chris Malinowski sits at the controls of the Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System (MOCNESS), which consists of eight underwater nets that collect plankton at various depths. MOCNESS works separately from the submersible, studying water conditions at shallower depths.

BP funds FAU-led research Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI), FAU’s northern marine research campus, is spearheading three BP-funded projects in a national effort to study the effects of the BP oil spill.

FAU is involved in four of the 27 research projects selected by the Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO) Council. The 27 projects were approved out of 233 proposals set forth by various research groups.

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the potential impact of the BP oil spill on Florida’s ecosystems.

Timeliness was important, according to Hanisak, because once oil gets to the region, scientists can look at what it looked like previously and better understand any change that may have occurred. Without such research, BP could claim that the region was damaged before the oil even got there.

“We hoped to establish a baseline of conditions before oil impacts reached shelf-edge reefs in the eastern Gulf of Mexico,” Hanisak said.

HBOI led the expedition, but it contributed more than just leadership to the trip. It provided the Research Vessel Seward Johnson, a 204 ft. research ship. The science team in the gulf examined reef systems and other deep sea-life.

“A lot of sponges and corals were brought up to look for potential cancer-fighting properties,” said Malinowski. “The submersible research that occurred focused primarily on the bottom layer [of the Gulf] and that is particularly important to the way everything in the ocean is able to survive.”

Malinowski and the other scientists of FLoSEE were picked up by the Seward Johnson on one of six stops on Florida’s west coast that picked up

Get immersed!

Harbor Branch offers students a watery semester The Semester by the Sea (SBTS) program, offered by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI), FAU’s Ft. Pierce campus, is a semester-long program that is focused on marine biology.

“Students get to do their own mini-thesis and work with teachers basically one-on-one,” said Lorin West, a marine ecology graduate student. “They spend the whole semester at Harbor Branch and underwater.”

According to Dennis Hanisak, director of education programs at HBOI, “The recent trip to the Gulf is not part of SBTS, but the two

“share similar concepts.”

“SBTS is a good program for undergraduates interested in this career path (and many of those students go onto grad school, or teaching/research/agency positions),” said Hanisak, “The last two years we did short cruises (2 days, 1 night) for the SBTS students.”

The next program is slated to start on January 11, 2010 and will run through May 5.

West encouraged students to take advantage of this little-known treasure.

“A lot of people down in Boca forget that we have this campus.” She said.

To learn more about the SBTS program, email education@hboi.fau.edu.

new passengers and supplies. The ship also brought the Jonhson-Sea-Link II (JSL) out to the Gulf in order to be able to conduct underwater studies. This submersible, or small submarine, holds 4 people and is generally used to collect deep-sea samples of marine life.

The submersible went down twice a day for three and half hours, according to Lorin West, a marine ecology graduate student.

Diving in the JSL was Malinowski’s most memorable part of the trip.

“I don’t think a lot of people get to experience this; it was definitely a dream.” Malinowski pointed out that he was able to “see things first-hand which you would normally not be able to see or see only through a TV monitor,” like deep-sea life.

West agreed with Malinowski about the dives.

“It was great. It’s one of the best, if not the best, trip of my life,” she said. “I mean, how many people get to go down in a submersible?”

West also enjoyed Malinowski’s company.

“Chris was great. He was funny,” she said. “When there’s downtime, we goofed around a lot. It was nice to have someone like him.”

During this downtime, the crew made time to watch

a few movies, including Anchorman and Superbad.

“We were going to try to watch The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, but [someone] stole the copy that was on the boat,” said West The cruise was originally scheduled for May 2011, but was pushed up due to Harbor Branch’s selling of the Seward Johnson to Cepemar, a Brazilian environmental company with an office in Boca Raton.

Cepemar agreed to postpone the ship’s delivery to Brazil.

“We were very fortunate to get permission from FAU and Cepemar to use our ship and submersible,” said Dennis Hanisak.

According to Hanisak, students can expect trips like this to happen again in the future despite the loss of the Seward Johnson.

“Education is all about providing opportunities,” he said. “For students interested in marine science as a career, I cannot imagine a better thing that I could do to provide an opportunity.”

Chris Malinowski was at a loss of words when he tried to sum up his experience.

“It’s always kind of difficult to wrap up an entire trip,” he said. “The entire thing was a unique experience and incredible.”

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‘Here is not enough’ KARLA BOWSHER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF When the spring semester ended, Jesse Scanlon quit his job, gave up the room he was renting, and put his cats up for adoption.

He was getting ready to take a summer vacation.

The junior left on May 13 for a solo bike trip from Florida’s Atlantic coast to California’s Pacific coast — about 2,600 miles. Last month, he returned with a new lifestyle.

Scanlon got so attached to the transient lifestyle he led on his trip that he’s decided to stick with it for a while. So, now he is homeless by choice, gets around Palm Beach and Broward Counties exclusively by bike, and picks up odd jobs when he needs the money.

He usually crashes at a friend’s or, on nights before he helps out his dad, at his dad’s house. But he spent his first night back sleeping behind a Fort Lauderdale library.

His first weekend back, he picked up some extra cash by hanging 5,000 door hangers for a friend’s family. Since then, he’s also worked for his dad’s home remodeling and carpentry business.

“I’m kind of swimming in this little river that just expanded into a lake of a lifestyle, which I’d really like to soak up as much as I can before I move back into a conventional lifestyle of work and school,” he said.

He’s even planned another trip: At the end of September,

he’ll hitchhike to Canada before returning to FAU for the spring 2011 semester.

“This is the most enlightened, enlightening part of my life that I’ve ever been in,” he said of the summer trip. “It kind of changed the way I think about certain things, and it really did broaden my perspective, which is what I was looking forward to, and because of that I think it would be really healthy for my future if I did this again.”

Although Scanlon, 21, didn’t take his last trip to run away from South Florida or the typical college lifestyle he then lived, he did set out in search of new experiences in order to get more out of his life.

“That was why I did this trip: I’m seeking what here is not enough,” he explained. “This trip wasn’t really a bicycle trip to me. It was more of an adventure, and that’s usually what I tell people: I did it for the adventure.”

Though Scanlon didn’t know exactly what he was seeking when he left home, Jacelyne Garcia, a good friend who attends Broward College, agrees the trip brought him closer to it.

“Since he’s been back, I know that he’s kind of falling into the same routine now, and that isn’t what he wants,” she said. “He can’t wait to go on his next trip, and that’s what he looks forward. So, I think now he’s just kind of starving for more new experiences.”

Perhaps the greatest experience from Scanlon’s last trip was a lesson in love.

Throughout his trip, he encountered strangers who

wanted to help him through offerings of food, shelter or money.

“The entire time, it blew my mind. I couldn’t understand it. I couldn’t make sense of it,” he said of the unexpected generosity. “I learned a lot about love, and I learned a lot about the fact that there are people in America that care and that love. There truly aren’t that many in South Florida, but the whole Southern hospitality stereotype is completely true. They’re proud of it. They’re proud of the fact that they love to help.”

Another unexpected positive encounter was with the bums, drunks, and drug addicts Scanlon ended up hanging out with throughout the trip.

Hanging out with them was like hanging out with anyone else, he said, but he particularly appreciated their company because they didn’t judge him for his choices.

Besides encounters with others, Scanlon’s visits to abandoned gold mines were perhaps his favorite experience.

More than halfway through the trip, he took a couple of days off to hike mountains and explore abandoned mines in west Texas. He even climbed into a few mine shafts, which he had always been afraid to do.

Not every experience was positive, however. Scanlon witnessed as much beauty as he did ugliness.

In Biloxi, Miss., he witnessed a “crazy” homeless man get whipped with a heavy chain by an “even crazier” SEE NEXT PAGE >>

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FAU student bikes across the country

>> FROM PREVIOUS NEXT PAGE homeless man after the two argued over crack cocaine.

They and Scanlon were part of a group waiting in line outside of a church that was offering meals to the homeless.

He also tried panhandling in Arizona when he was broke and hoping for enough to pay his cell phone bill. He made $250 in one day yet never begged for money again.

“It kind of disgusted me a little bit, and that’s why I want to call it a social experiment,” he said of the experience. “Because you can be greedy, and I really don’t feel like I deserve that help. I really don’t feel like I do. I did it just to see.”

Perhaps the most difficult part of the trip, however, was coping with the “psychologically traumatic” toll that the trip’s highs and lows took on Scanlon.

At the end of each day of biking, his body experienced a “massive crash.” His physical stress was also compounded by greater mental stress: Although having a phone helped, isolation and loneliness caught up with him at night: “I’d get these pangs of loneliness at the end of the day, and ‘Where the fuck am I going to sleep?’ and ‘What does life mean?’ and those kinds of situations.”

How it all started...

In 2008, Scanlon bought his bike for about $220 at Walmart.

He had heard that road bikes are fast — and did reach speeds of 45 mph on his summer trip — but quickly found riding “peaceful.” It wasn’t long before the idea of a long-distance trip first crossed his mind.

So, in December 2009, to help focus his mind before the spring semester, he took a solo ride to the southern border of South Carolina. The 600-mile trip took one week, and he returned home on an Amtrak train.

After that, he was hooked. Given his newfound love of adventure, academic stressors, and his car breaking down, Scanlon’s summer trip became inevitable.

“The routine really got to me during this past semester, and the pressure and all that stuff,” he said of his first semester back to school after earning his high school diploma and associate’s degree at the same time in 2007.

“So, I got really antsy. Toward the middle of the semester, I started thinking about it,” he said. “I just knew that I really wanted to do it, so I was super stoked on it, almost obsessed with it.”

Once the spring semester ended, he gave his two weeks’ notice at the Broward Division of Parks and Recreation, where he had worked for more than three years. And after saying goodbye to his room, his cats, and his friends, he was off.

When Scanlon returned, he was surprisingly well received.

“I’m catching a lot of these terms like ‘admirable,’ ‘inspirational,’ ‘dude, that’s so courageous,’” he said.

“It’s not. I’m just some impulsive, curious kid who has no idea what he’s doing and has no idea what he knows and doesn’t know. I’m not coming back as a wise guru.”

If others take anything away from his trip, though, Scanlon just hopes that it inspires them to action.

“All I want this to come off is, if it’s going to be inspirational, then use that for something, use that to do.

This whole thing is about doing,” he said. “Sometimes all it takes is dropping everything and going.”

To learn more about Scanlon or to see more photos from his trip, visit his blog: americaiscashed.blogspot.com.

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Over the summer, English major Jesse Scanlon rode his bike from Jacksonville Beach, Fla., to Rosarito Beach, Mexico. Here’s how he pulled off the 56-day trip alone.

Packing Scanlon packed as light as he could. He left with a couple of changes of clothes, a few days’ worth of food, a one-person tent, and a sleeping bag. He also took his phone, which doubled as his camera.

He strapped the sleeping bag to his handlebars and fit everything else into a small duffel bag and two saddlebags.

Traveling Taking a combination of interstates and local highways, Scanlon traveled across the southern United States. His route cut through the Florida panhandle, the southernmost sliver of Alabama, and the coast of Mississippi. From there, he biked through the southern sections of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. After he reached California, he crossed into Mexico and finally reached the Pacific Ocean at the city of Rosarito Beach.

Eating What Scanlon ate depended on what he could afford to eat.

When he had money, he dined on cold Ramen noodle soup and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The combination provided the carbohydrates and protein

Sleeping Because his tent got hot, Scanlon only used it if it rained or if he was in a rural or wooded area. In fact, he slept in it only about 10 times.

When he didn’t pitch the tent, he usually slept on his sleeping bag in an alley or behind a dumpster — “anywhere secluded

needed to keep him going, Scanlon said.

When he ran out of money, he often resorted to dumpster diving. Scanlon preferred to loot the dumpsters of bakeries and Dunkin’ Donuts, he said, because they usually throw away any baked goods that are left over at the end of each day, even if they weren’t spoiled.

from dangerous people and secluded from police.”

Over the course of the trip, Scanlon, now homeless by choice, got used to such conditions.

“At this point, I really don’t care,” he said of where he sleeps each night. “It’s weird sleeping in a bed.”

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