Stories in the mainstream press about sub-Saharan Africa tend to follow a pretty grim litany of poverty, corruption, violence and despair. (The photos are often even worse.) So I hereby submit for your perusal An African Miracle, which is a story of hope about children who are getting treated for AIDS that ran in the Dec. 4 issue of TIME.

On one level, this is story is about the Pediatric AIDS Corps—a group started by Dr. Mark Kline of Baylor—and its mission to bring medicine and doctors to the furthest reaches of the world to help treat children with HIV/AIDS.

But on a larger level, it’s a story about what’s possible when lots of people and organizations get together to make positive changes in the world we live in.

As so often happens when I write stories, I learned more than I could put into any single article. So check out the short video about my trip to a newly opened pediatric AIDS clinic in Lesotho and the in-depth interviews that my colleague Alice Park conducted with some of the
Pediatric AIDS Corps doctors.

I hear that Baylor is figuring out a way that individuals or other groups can also sponsor some of the next class of Pediatric AIDS Corps. (They need about $140,000 per doctor to cover a modest stipend, travel and health-insurance costs and partial medical school loan forgiveness. You can find out more at bayloraids.org).

--Christine Gorman/New York