In addition to reading the information below, visit the Ride Against AIDS website and the FACE AIDS website to get a feel for what the Ride is all about and why I am passionate enough about these issues to bike across the country for them.
About FACE AIDS:
Mission
FACE AIDS fights
HIV/AIDS by building a global movement of youth dedicated to health equity and social
justice. We empower youth with the leadership capacity and peer community
necessary to move from inspiration to action and long-term engagement.
Major Achievements
Since FACE AIDS’
founding in 2005, we have made huge strides in mobilizing young leaders in global
health. Specifically, FACE AIDS has:
• Engaged
thousands of students at over 210 college and high school campuses in the
United States,
Rwanda, and around the world, empowering them with the skills and
tools to plan and
lead community-based anti-AIDS activities
• Provided
employment, structured savings, and business training to over 300 people
affected by
HIV/AIDS in Zambia and Rwanda, significantly improving their
household
consumption levels and health outcomes
• Raised
over $2.5 million for Partners In Health to provide comprehensive,
community-based
health care to HIV-affected communities in Rwanda
What People Are Saying
“Young people
often bear the brunt of the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS. I applaud FACE AIDS for
their leadership in engaging youth from around the world on this pandemic, and am
pleased that FACE AIDS is supporting my Foundation’s collaboration
with Partners In
Health in Rwanda.”
- President Bill Clinton
“FACE AIDS has
distinguished itself through its commitment, integrity, innovation and effectiveness in
service of our patients. I give my highest recommendation to FACE AIDS.”
- Dr. Paul Farmer, Co-Founder of Partners In Health
“I am very
impressed and moved by FACE AIDS… FACE AIDS has it just right: these problems are
solvable, and this is the generation to solve them. Bravo to all of you.”
- Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary
General on the Millennium Development Goals
What We Do
(1) Provide Socio-Economic and Educational Opportunities for
HIV-Affected
Individuals: FACE AIDS leads capacity-building
programs for individuals most affected by HIV/AIDS in rural
eastern Rwanda, an area formerly devastated by conflict, poverty, and disease. We have
provided school fees assistance to over 300 HIV-affected secondary school students and
brought together hundreds of youth through an annual World AIDS Day Youth Forum and
through FACE AIDS chapters, which offer leadership development, psycho-social
support, and educational opportunities. Furthermore, FACE AIDS partners
with associations
of HIV-affected individuals to provide employment and promote savings, small business
development, and financial independence, key factors to lifting communities out of poverty.
(2) Build a Youth Movement: FACE AIDS
mobilizes hundreds of students in Rwanda to promote education
and awareness about HIV/AIDS in their communities. We do the same with thousands of
students at over 210 university and high school campuses across the
United States.
Through chapters, students raise funds to support those afflicted by the disease, educate
others about HIV/AIDS, and strive to change both attitudes and behaviors. Young people
involved with FACE AIDS become life-long leaders in global health,
international
development, and social justice.
(3) Support Comprehensive Health Care: Through
innovative and community-building events and
campaigns, FACE AIDS chapters in the United States raise funds to provide
comprehensive
healthcare to HIV-affected communities in rural Eastern Rwanda. 100% of these funds are
granted to Partners In Health, an internationally acclaimed NGO with nearly three decades of
experience providing healthcare services to some of the world’s most devastated
populations. Since 2005, FACE AIDS has raised more than $2 million for the provision of
comprehensive health care.
Contact FACE AIDS to Learn More:
Julie Veroff
Executive
Director
julie@faceaids.org
| (559) 790-7052
P.O. Box 46, Palo
Alto, CA 94302
www.faceaids.org
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