Global AIDS Fund Presentation
- Global AIDS Fund PowerPoint (To simply view, click "open". To save and use, click "Save".)
- Outreach Resource Library - includes several AIDS-related resources available from the Outreach Office
AIDS-related Desert Connection Articles:
- HIV Transmission - October 1, 2007
- Global AIDS Fund - October 1, 2007
- Women and AIDS - October 15, 2007
- Children and AIDS - January 15, 2008
- Strength for the Journey Camps - February 1, 2008
- Senior Citizens and AIDS - April 1, 2008
The following is a sample presentation given by Ms. Sara Myers to Dove of the Desert UMC before taking up a Global AIDS fund offering:
As we meet here today, there are more than 15 million children worldwide who have been orphaned by AIDS. They are the innocent victims of the AIDS pandemic that has become the most dangerous threat to global health since the plague of the Middle Ages. The vast majority of AIDS orphans live in sub-Saharan Africa, although these child victims can be found all over the globe, including here in the United States of America. Children orphaned by AIDS typically live in poverty, live without the basic necessities that are the God-given rights of all humans:food and shelter.
They are shunned, the victims of shame and stigma attached to the disease which took their parents. They continue to receive little or no education about AIDS unless we, their hope and their chance for survival, bring that education to them.
In 2004, The United Methodist Global AIDS Fund was established to raise $8 million by 2008. Here are some of the things that can be done with these contributions.
The Fund supports, houses, educates and nurtures AIDS orphans and supports grandparents and other family members who care for them.
The Fund helps to provide Nevirapine, a drug that prevents the pregnant HIV positive mother from transmitting the virus to the child she is carrying. This drug costs about 10 dollars in US currency. Only 10 million dollars. How can we not help to make this available?
The Fund helps provide education to countries where practicing traditional behaviors contributes to the spread of the AIDS pandemic.
The Fund can assist congregations and Annual Conferences in identifying local projects and creating global partnerships for mutual HIV/AIDS ministry. Twenty-five percent of all monies collected in this Conference, the Desert Southwest Conference, will remain here and be used for education and prevention projects that will help stop the spread of AIDS.
The Fund will explore partnerships with governments and the Global AIDS Fund to help with AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in countries where these diseases are active.
Eight million dollars. That represents 1 dollar from every member of the Methodist church here in the United States of America.
I am here today to ask you to be a part of offering hope for the future for the innocent victims of the AIDS pandemic. I am asking you to Give for the Living!
It will take only one dollar from each member of each Methodist Church in the Desert Southwest Conference to reach the Conference goal of 40,000 dollars. If you wish to contribute more, that would be wonderful. Whatever you can give will be deeply appreciated and used well. You may be sure of that. The General Board of Global Ministries and UMCOR, the United Methodist Committee on Recovery will use it well.
When you leave the sanctuary, there will be members of (your church's name) Missions Team with baskets to receive your contributions. If you want additional information on this Fund or wish to contribute at a later date, please contact me, (presenter's name). I am in the new directory.