COMMUNITY
ACTION
Hope House of Colorado
Hope House is a safe
place for teen moms to find hope. They can use your help as a
volunteer, by becoming a trained advocate, or by giving financially.
We
want to thank everyone that participated in our annual Pediatric Aids Bowlathon on
November 8, 2009. We raised over $5,000 for our Charity of
Choice! We look forward to seeing you all there again next
year.
Your
Community Action Committee needs donated school supplies to
help out
needy school children and personal
care items for battered women's
shelters. Financial donations for these causes are also welcome.
- SUPPORT LABORS' COMMUNITY AGENCY
& UNITED WAY -
CWA 7777 urges all members to
support
the 2005
LCA and United Way campaign. Local 7777 has provided assistance
in the form of monetary donations and volunteer services to these two
organizations in the past and intends to continue to do so.
Pediatric
Aids----- CWA’s Charity of Choice
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
(EGPAF) has been
our "Charity of Choice" since 1990. The Foundation, an international
non-profit organization is dedicated to creating a future of hope for
children and families around the world. CWA members have been
extremely generous and in the past fifteen years have raised over $5.15
million on behalf of the Foundation. CWA made this decision after
Elizabeth courageously shared her personal story with CWA members at a
time when little was known about AIDS and even less about how it
affects children. It was after that moving speech that the CWA
voted to make the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation its
charity of choice. Since that time, CWA members and Local Unions have
been extremely generous to the Foundation through annual giving
campaigns and special fundraising initiatives. As a group, CWA has
raised over $5 million for the Foundation’s research, training and
advocacy programs around the world.
Elizabeth Glaser was infected
with HIV
through a blood transfusion in 1981. She and her husband Paul
learned that Elizabeth had unknowingly passed the virus onto their
daughter, Ariel, through breast milk and subsequently to their son,
Jake, in utero. Following Ariel’s death in 1988, Elizabeth joined with
close friends, Susie Zeegen and Susan DeLaurentis to create the
Foundation that now bears her name.
Thanks to the generosity of CWA,
the
Foundation that started modestly, just three mothers working around a
kitchen table, has grown into a worldwide effort to create a future of
hope for children and families around the world. Today, the Foundation
is a major player in the global AIDS pandemic, working to prevent new
infections while helping children and adults who are already infected.
The Foundation has also branched out by helping kids and families
suffering from other serious and life-threatening diseases; all the
while continuing to fund the research that is so critical to ending
this horrible pandemic.
We have come a long way in the
battle
against HIV/AIDS, but unfortunately, there is still more work to be
done. Currently more than 38 million people are estimated to be
living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Unless something is done, that number
will more than double by 2010.
The continued
support of
CWA will allow the Foundation to:
- Stimulate and support
cutting-edge
pediatric HIV/AIDS research and train the pediatric leaders of
tomorrow;
- Prevent new HIV infections
throughout
the developing world;
- Ensure families stay healthy
and
communities stay strong through expanded care and treatment programs
for infected children and adults in the hardest hits countries
- Passionately advocate for
children’s
health with governments, policy makers, and the medical community;
- Accelerate collaborative
medical
discoveries on behalf of children suffering from other serious and
life-threatening pediatric illnesses.
Although
Elizabeth
lost her own battle to AIDS, her son, Jake, is now a healthy, young
adult. And, thanks to the work of the Foundation and the support of CWA
throughout the years, countless other children have been saved as
well. For more information, please visit the Foundation’s Web
site at www.pedaids.org.
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