Wednesday, December 3, 2008

World AIDs Day

This is an AIDs event which some of our students put on on campus this past Monday, December 1 (World Aids Day) to raise awareness. There are four hundred pictures representing children affected by the AIDs pandemic, shown above (event sponsored by World Vision). The pictures covered the entirety of one quad on our campus, and that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the overall statistics:

Every day, nearly 6,000 people die from AIDs.
Every day another 6,000 children are orphaned by AIDs.
That's one person dying every 15 seconds.
Another one orphaned every 15 seconds.

33 million people world-wide live with AIDs.

To learn more, about what you can do, visit World Vision's website.

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