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What You Don't Know Can Hurt You

Submitted by Sralsto1 on Wed, 2008-02-13 20:22.

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For so long many teens especially have went around using the quote " What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You" repeatedly. This quote has proven to be true personally in my life. Growing up and learning of the deaths of my loved ones deat was a sad experience but what turned to be even sadder is once I hit my teenage years I found out that a few of them had died of AIDS. What I didn't know did hurt me. AIDS is an ever growing issue in our society yet people try to stray from discussing it. What You Dont' Know Can Hurt You is an event that I hope I may be able to take to campus' nationwide but first beginnining with my own university. North Carolina A&T State University.At North Carolina A&T Rae Lewis-Thornton, a baptist minister,and AIDS victim,and advocate will be the keynote speaker. This event will be used to change not only the lives of those involved in the fight for AIDS but also to all who attend these events. The event will always begin with a "Pennies for AIDS Drive" in which all donations will go to the National AIDS Fund as well as any other donations made.

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Started On:January 2008Ended On:Until AIDS dies my event will stay alive
People Involved:Various Campus Organizations: PAL, SGA, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.People Impacted:My hopes are that Millions will be involved
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Related Cause: HIV/AIDS

Category: Health & Medicine

Tags: AIDS awareness Rae Lewis Thornton

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ZAMBIA WELL BUILDERS

Submitted by godskid5 on Wed, 2008-02-06 18:24.

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Our youth department is sending out a team of 15 people to travel over seas to Mukwalantila, Zambia. We will giving AIDS training and running a sports camp for the children.Right now our youth department is trying to raise money to build a well for the village to get water from. Currently they have to walk 4 hours just to get enough water for one day. We are praying that when we go to Zambia we will see the well being used by the people and how much ease it brings to them.

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Related Cause: HIV/AIDS

Category: Global Impact

Tags: Zambia mission trip AIDS awareness drinking well

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Mothers Without Borders

Submitted by alexamichele on Wed, 2007-12-26 23:21.


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Mothers Without Borders is a non-profit organization that travels to Zambia in Africa and performs humanitarian aide to the good people there. It is well known that HIV and AIDS is an epidemic that is wiping out an entire generation. As more and more parents infected by HIV die, their orphaned children are then put in charge of caring for themselves. They have to find a way to provide food for their younger siblings even if this means they have to stop going to school. More than thirty six million children under the age of fifteen are orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa today. Our purpose is to address the needs of orphaned and abandoned children. We support efforts to provide safe shelter, food and clean water, education and access to caring adults. We try and provide the children in Zambia with caring adults that will teach values and love them when we leave. I am a member of the team traveling in June. I wanted to make a big difference in someone’s life, so I became a volunteer. Even though I have had to sacrifice some things to go, I know it will be the most rewarding experience! It is so exciting to think that I will be able to make a difference in the lives of children who have had so many burdens put upon them just because they were born in an area that was suffering from a life-threatening virus. If I am able to put a smile on a child’s face my trip will be so worth it!! It has been a great experience already in the preparation for my expedition. I have participated in donating to a boutique that was organized to help raise money that we will take with us to Africa. I am so excited to be helping these wonderful people!
Some of the things I will be doing while I am in Zambia are:
• Tutoring children in English, music, art, and recreation,
• Holding, feeding, and caring for preemie babies in the hospital
• Teaching health and hygiene to women and children in a local village
• Simple construction of one room schools, poultry houses, dormitories, and village homes
• Teaching life skills to orphans living in the MWB Children’s Resource Center
• Teaching AIDS awareness and prevention to widows and orphans
• Assisting with medical screenings in a local village
• Teaching and building raised gardens for widows in the village
• Teaching sewing, knitting, crocheting, and other simple skills

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Started On:June 15, 2008Ended On:June 30, 2008
People Involved:18People Impacted:Unknown
Money Raised:I will raise $3,800  

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Related Cause: Global Extreme Poverty

Category: Global Impact

Tags: teaching Construction AIDS awareness medical aide simple skills

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