Support our Sunflower Seedling Sale
Over
30 varieties of locally grown sunflowers
Mother's Day, May 11th, 2008
FROM 10am to 4pm
AT
2133 East 7th Avenue in Vancouver BC
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AND
1163 Cedar Grove Rd. in Roberts Creek
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Thanks to the many who supported last years sale!
T-shirts (white, natural, aqua, asphalt and brown) and
sunflower seed packets (mystery blend!) also available for sale.
100% of sale proceeds will support HIV/AIDS impacted
families in Africa.
Write letters
Global HIV prevention efforts are lagging far behind what is needed. Last year, Canada and other G8 nations pledged to support HIV prevention and to strive for universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment by 2010.
Write letters to Prime Minister Harper and Stephane Dion Leader of the Opposition insisting that Canada do its part in achieving this goal.
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington St.
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2
Leader of the Official Opposition
House of Commons
111 Wellington St.
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
no postage necessary
The Global Treatment Access Group (
www.aidslaw.ca/EN/issues/GTAG.htm) suggests these Four Steps for Canada:
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make her an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
William Coffin Jr.
- Pay our fair share of the global response, by doubling current funding for research into anti-HIV vaccines and microbicides, contributing 5% of what is needed by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for each of the ext five years until 2010, and setting a timetable for raising our other aid contributions fo the international target of 0.7% of national income;
- Invest in public health care systems in developing countries, including supporting their efforts to train and retain desperately needed health care workers;
- Promote immediate and unconditional cancellation of 100% of the debt burden of the countries most burdened by AIDS and poverty; and
- Remove red tape in Canada's law on exporting lower-cost medicines, while working with generic drug-makers and directly with developing countries to improve access to needed drugs.
Support other organizations
These are some groups who have useful information, ideas or who are just plain inspiring.
Provides funding for community based HIV/AIDS projects across sub-saharan Africa.
Saltspring Organization for Life Improvement and Development, community support
for grassroots HIV/AIDS Projects.
Partners in Health, incredible work inspired by Paul Farmer, partnering with poor communities to
combat disease and poverty.
Medicins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders.
Canada-Africa Partnership on AIDS, providing funds to community based HIV/AIDS projects in Africa.
American activist group campaigning for global access to ARV's (antiretrovirals).
Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
The International Center for Equal Healthcare Access
