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Start Date & Time November 30, 2008 9:00 AM GMT +5.5 End Date & Time November 30, 2008 5:00 AM GMT +5.5 Location Online. Event Cost Rs. 20,00,000.00 Event URL http://eawake.ning.com/main/ RSVP Info Name: Anshu Joseph Phone: +919873583337 E-mail: anshu@missiofoundation.org Registration Deadline October 20, 2008 Categories Sexuality HIV/AIDS Sports Health Tags hiv/aids, youth, initiatives, actnow, delhi, awakening You must be logged in to add tags.

About

Missio Foundation are organizing an event named ‘AWAKENING 2008’ which would serve the purpose of creating Awareness and Sharing Knowledge about HIV/AIDS among at least 7000 youth (Families) in New Delhi, India
This is to collect youth under one umbrella to spread the awareness about HIV/AIDS and its deadly effects and its prevention in a very different style that suits the present youth. The event will comprise of Painting Competition, Singing Competition and Dramatics. The subject of the competitions would be the support and care for the HIV positives. We would invite Renowned Personalities who have excelled in the above said areas to motivate and encourage the youth. To Judge the competitions, the Team will find out talented people from different fields.

The funds and other assets generated from the event will be directed towards building up of Child Care Centres for HIV Positive orphans.

We, at Missio Foundation seek our directions from the Catholic policy on HIV/AIDS published by the Health Commission of the CBCI.

PURPOSE OF THE EVENT

Evolve meaningful and appropriate strategies for timely interventions for prevention, Treatment, Care and Support for the people infected with HIV/AIDS.

AWAKENING 2008 aims to:

- Dispel myths and misconceptions related to HIV/AIDS and raise awareness about its risks and need for behaviour change among the youth.

- Create an environment free from discrimination and stigma.

- Encourage the youth to volunteer themselves in the process of creating awareness.

WHY

India is a home to 70,000 HIV infected children. However, only 32,000 of them identified and 10,000 of them have been put on Anti Retroviral Therapy (ATP). One out of every 8 children, below the age of 15, suffering from HIV/AIDS worldwide is present in India. Every year, India reports 21,000 new paediatrics HIV infections every year.

Date : 30th November 2008

Time : 9am till 4pm

Venue : St. Columba’s School, New Delhi

EVENTS

i. Competitions

Awakening 2008 comprises of the following Competitions:

1. Group Singing

2. Painting

3. Writing

4. Dramatics

The competitions will begin at 9.00 am in the morning and will go up to 12.00 pm. Topics for the competitions will be related to Care and Support for fellow beings.

ii. Session

After a short break the participants and their parents would be seated for one and half hour session on HIV/AIDS. This session would deliver knowledge about Infection, means of transmission, Stages of HIV Prevention, Life culture, High Risk Behaviours, ART, and other youth related problems by Health Experts.

iii. Research and Survey

On the event day the organiser would conduct a survey through questionnaire to know about the scale of knowledge about HIV/AIDS within the youth and their families. This would help the organisation to module further steps in the best way possible. From the participants we would select 500 youth who are willing to volunteer themselves for further research on this subject. The research findings will also help us to know more about the present level of awareness.

OUR CONCEPT

HIV/AIDS is not just a social or a medical issue; rather it is a developmental issue. Today the Human Race has scaled a high level of advancement of science with all sorts of gadgets and medical facilities. But still we appear to be quiet helpless in front of the weak virus that cannot be survive in the open air for more than three minutes. Today the virus has not only infected millions of people and rendered them into a situation where in their entire life has become a slave to this deadly organism, but also has changed the attitude of the society towards them.

Missio Foundation invites organizations with shared goals to partner with us in strengthening the Foundation and enhancing its value as a catalyst for sustainability. The Foundation expects your valuable support and cooperation in this step towards fighting against HIV/AIDS.