Support our Sunflower Seedling Sale
Over
30 varieties of locally grown sunflowers
Saturday, May 8th, 2010 FROM
10am to 3pm
East Vancouver
2133 East 7th Ave
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Kitsilano
Banyen Books, 3608 West 4th Ave
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New Westminster325 3rd Street, New Westminster
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010 FROM
9am to 2pm
MissionMission Farmers' Market
33247 2nd Ave (at the Mission Public Library)
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Saturday, May 15th, 2010 FROM
10am to 3pm
Sunshine Coast
1163 Cedar Grove Rd, Roberts Creek, BC
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T-shirts (white, natural, aqua, asphalt and brown)
and
cards by Andrea Lowe will also be 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.
Write letters to Prime Minister Harper and Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff 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
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.
2010 UNAIDS: Nine Priority Areas
- We can reduce sexual transmission of HIV
- We can prevent mothers from dying and babies from becoming infected with HIV
- We can ensure that people living with HIV receive treatment
- We can prevent people living with HIV from dying of tuberculosis
- We can protect drug users from becoming infected with HIV
- We can remove primitive laws, policies, practices, stigma and discrimination that block effective responses to AIDS
- We can stop violence against women and girls
- We can empower young people to protect themselves
- We can enhance social protection for people affected by HIV
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.
Partners in Health, incredible work inspired by Paul Farmer, partnering with poor communities to
combat disease and poverty.
Medicins Sans Frontieres/ Doctors Without Borders.
AIDS-Free World is an international advocacy organization that works to promote more urgent and effective global responses to HIV/AIDS.
ICAD's mission is to lessen the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS in resource-poor communities and countries by providing leadership, and actively contributing to the Canadian and international response.
American activist group campaigning for global access to ARV's (antiretrovirals).
Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
