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It’s an unusual grassroots movement — grandmothers from across Canada coming together to raise money to help eradicate AIDS in Africa.

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In the past seven years, the Grandmothers To Grandmothers campaign through the Stephen Lewis Foundation has raised 19 million dollars for the cause and today, more than a thousand of those grandmothers, attended the first ever African grandmothers tribunal at the Chan Center in Vancouver.

Samantha Falk reports.

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