YOUR DONATIONS AT WORK

Meet Grace Mkalianinga and her grandson Emmanuel, who live in Zomba, Malawi. Both Grace and Emmanuel have been started on ARVs and they support one another in taking their life-saving medications.

Thousands of children and adults have started on life-saving antiretroviral medications, and hundreds of new patients are gaining access to these medications each month.

Rosina Kwatisani (left) has five children, aged 18 to six months. She is on ARVs and works in six villages where she assesses the home, helps with organizing housework and drawing water. She encourages villagers to get tested for their HIV status, and if anyone is really ill she facilitates them getting to the hospital. "When I was sick, others helped me, so now I want to help. I can show by example what the effects of ARVs are on a person. I have grown much stronger on them."

Read more about the impact of your support in our newsletters and in Stories From The Field.

Visit the Give a Day website at www.giveaday.ca and join the official Facebook group. Follow Give a Day on Twitter at @giveaday.

Give a Day to World AIDS is a simple and powerful way to speak up about AIDS in the world. Through campaigns in workplaces, faith-based groups and schools, and through individual donations, participants become part of a coast-to-coast campaign that is truly having an impact in the lives of those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa.

Give a Day to World AIDS proposes that everyone recognize World AIDS Day, December 1st each year by giving one day’s income to organizations that will use the money well in the fight against AIDS. "Give a Day" recommends donations be made to Dignitas International and the Stephen Lewis Foundation, because both were founded specifically in response to the AIDS pandemic, both have Canadian roots, and both keep administrative costs low to maximize the impact of donor funding at the community level.

The "Give a Day" story began on December 1, 2004 at Markham Stouffville Hospital in Markham, Ontario. In response to a challenge put forth by Dr. Jane Philpott, 50 doctors at this hospital donated their income for one day. More than $33,000 was raised. In 2005, word spread and eight hospitals in Ontario ran a similar campaign, contributing over $100,000.

In 2006, Give a Day to World AIDS swept beyond the healthcare sector to include law firms, business groups, and many others. The campaign exceeded a quarter million dollar milestone and continued to grow in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Dignitas International
Canadian Charitable Registration # 86033 3426 RR0001.
Registered US 501(c)(3) EIN: 26-0387288.

Thank you to everyone who supported the 2009 Give a Day to World AIDS Campaign!

You can still buy the Harambee* CD and share the music!  

*A Harambee (hah-RAHM-beh) is, to put it simply, a “party with a purpose”. In the tradition of many East African countries, communities pull together to work for a common cause, organizing fundraising and community support events called Harambees. It makes sense that as part of the global family, Give a Day supporters gather in this same way, to raise funds in support of our global family and those living with HIV/AIDS in Africa. A Harambee looks like lots of people gathered together, talking, listening to great African music, sharing and learning about what they can do to be part of the solution to HIV/AIDS in Africa. It’s not a sombre event – but an opportunity to come together to do some good!