To help raise awareness for World AIDS Day we spent Friday (November 30th) working at the Centre SIDA D'Amitie in Saint-Jerome.
We spent the morning cooking and preparing food for a lunch for all the volunteers of the center. Then in the afternoon we worked with a number of the less-privileged members of the community (homeless, HIV/AIDS positive, poor, etc.) making signs and posters. We had everything from giant banners saying "CENTRE SIDA D'AMITIE" or "Journée de la Lutte Contre la SIDA; Decembre 1" to smaller signs reading "I never thought it would happen to me.." or "Klaxonner pour supporter la lutte contre la SIDA". When all the signs were done, the decently large group of us marched our way across town to one of the largest intersections right near the highway. Our plan was that since it was around the time that work and school ended, everyone going in and out of the city would see us.
The next three hours were spent energetically jumping around, waving signs, talking to people, and ultimately; getting people to honk to support the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Here is a photo of a few of us with one of the signs, right outside the Centre SIDA.
For more information on World AIDS Day or HIV/AIDS you can visit this site:
http://www.worldaidsday.org/
No comments:
Post a Comment