FACE AIDS
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Established 2005. Executive Director: Julie Veroff
Managing Director: Nicole Krenitsky
Rwanda Program Director: Cher-Wen DeWitt
Chapter Support Director: Eve Fine
Recruitment and Partnerships Director: Austin Carroll Keeley
Rwanda Program Managers: Jean d'Amour Mutoni and Caitlin Snyder
FACE AIDS is a youth-led non-profit committed to fighting HIV/AIDS by building a global movement of youth dedicated to health equity and social justice. Since 2005, FACE AIDS has established chapters at over 200 colleges and high schools across the United States and at 13 health centers in eastern Rwanda, engaging thousands of youth in community-based anti-AIDS initiatives. FACE AIDS students in the U.S. have raised over $1.8 million for Partners In Health
to provide comprehensive health care to HIV-affected communities in Rwanda, and FACE AIDS has directly employed over 350 HIV-affected Rwandans and supported their socio-economic empowerment through structured savings and business training programs.
students working in a Zambian refugee camp met Mama Katele, a grandmother living with AIDS. Through Mama Katele, the students came to realize the impact of AIDS in her community and how little their generation knew about the human cost of the pandemic. Determined to help Mama Katele and to engage their peers in a fight for global health, they developed a program through which people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa could gain income making beaded AIDS awareness pins. The pins, in turn, would provide the basis of a movement to inspire students to stand up against the pandemic and raise money to support those working in Africa to overcome the ravages of disease and poverty.
FACE AIDS began as a series of week-long campaigns devoted to selling beaded pins and raising awareness about the AIDS epidemic. The funds raised from these pins went to support the pin-makers in the Zambian support group. As it became clear that a more sustained effort was needed to sell pins and build a student movement, FACE AIDS transitioned to the chapter model, recruiting heavily from 2006 onward.
Managing Director: Nicole Krenitsky
Rwanda Program Director: Cher-Wen DeWitt
Chapter Support Director: Eve Fine
Recruitment and Partnerships Director: Austin Carroll Keeley
Rwanda Program Managers: Jean d'Amour Mutoni and Caitlin Snyder
FACE AIDS is a youth-led non-profit committed to fighting HIV/AIDS by building a global movement of youth dedicated to health equity and social justice. Since 2005, FACE AIDS has established chapters at over 200 colleges and high schools across the United States and at 13 health centers in eastern Rwanda, engaging thousands of youth in community-based anti-AIDS initiatives. FACE AIDS students in the U.S. have raised over $1.8 million for Partners In Health
Partners In Health
Partners In Health is a Boston, Massachusetts-based non-profit health care organization dedicated to providing a "preferential option for the poor". It was founded in 1987 by Dr. Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, Thomas J. White, Todd McCormack, and Dr...
to provide comprehensive health care to HIV-affected communities in Rwanda, and FACE AIDS has directly employed over 350 HIV-affected Rwandans and supported their socio-economic empowerment through structured savings and business training programs.
History
In 2005, three Stanford UniversityStanford University
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students working in a Zambian refugee camp met Mama Katele, a grandmother living with AIDS. Through Mama Katele, the students came to realize the impact of AIDS in her community and how little their generation knew about the human cost of the pandemic. Determined to help Mama Katele and to engage their peers in a fight for global health, they developed a program through which people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa could gain income making beaded AIDS awareness pins. The pins, in turn, would provide the basis of a movement to inspire students to stand up against the pandemic and raise money to support those working in Africa to overcome the ravages of disease and poverty.
FACE AIDS began as a series of week-long campaigns devoted to selling beaded pins and raising awareness about the AIDS epidemic. The funds raised from these pins went to support the pin-makers in the Zambian support group. As it became clear that a more sustained effort was needed to sell pins and build a student movement, FACE AIDS transitioned to the chapter model, recruiting heavily from 2006 onward.