A core component of the FACE AIDS model is the FACE AIDS pin. The pin represents
not only the men and women affected by HIV who make them, but also the global
movement of students dedicated to combating the AIDS pandemic.
The Story of the Pin
In 2005, Jonny, Katie, and Lauren were working in a Zambian refugee camp when they met Mama Katele, a grandmother living with AIDS. Through Mama Katele, these three Stanford students realized how little their generation knew about the human cost of the AIDS pandemic. Determined to help Mama Katele and to engage their peers in the fight for global health equity, these students developed a program in which people affected by AIDS in Africa could earn an 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 to overcome disease and poverty.
FACE AIDS began as a series of week‐long campaigns devoted to selling pins and raising awareness about the AIDS epidemic. The funds raised from these pins went to support the pin‐makers in Zambia. As it became clear that a more sustained effort was needed to distribute pins and build a student movement, FACE AIDS transitioned to a chapter model, recruiting heavily at high schools, college, and universities from 2006 onward. In 2007, as members of the refugee camp in Zambia began to return home, Partners In Health invited FACE AIDS to join them at their site in Rwanda. In September 2007, FACE AIDS began pin‐making projects with 100 men and women affected by AIDS in Rwanda, working in cooperation with Partners In Health.
Today, FACE AIDS continues to employ associations of individuals affected by HIV in Rwanda to make beaded AIDS awareness pins. We pay pin‐makers a salary and enroll them in a structured savings program, enabling them to start or strengthen small businesses and begin to move out of poverty. And, at high school and college campuses across the United States, FACE AIDS chapters continue to sell pins. All proceeds go to Partners In Health, to support the delivery of high‐quality health care in the communities where our pin‐makers live.
To date, the pin has helped to raise over $2 million for Partners in Health.
Please donate today at:
http://www.citizeneffect.org/projects/face-aids-ride-against-aids-2012-alice
The Story of the Pin
In 2005, Jonny, Katie, and Lauren were working in a Zambian refugee camp when they met Mama Katele, a grandmother living with AIDS. Through Mama Katele, these three Stanford students realized how little their generation knew about the human cost of the AIDS pandemic. Determined to help Mama Katele and to engage their peers in the fight for global health equity, these students developed a program in which people affected by AIDS in Africa could earn an 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 to overcome disease and poverty.
FACE AIDS began as a series of week‐long campaigns devoted to selling pins and raising awareness about the AIDS epidemic. The funds raised from these pins went to support the pin‐makers in Zambia. As it became clear that a more sustained effort was needed to distribute pins and build a student movement, FACE AIDS transitioned to a chapter model, recruiting heavily at high schools, college, and universities from 2006 onward. In 2007, as members of the refugee camp in Zambia began to return home, Partners In Health invited FACE AIDS to join them at their site in Rwanda. In September 2007, FACE AIDS began pin‐making projects with 100 men and women affected by AIDS in Rwanda, working in cooperation with Partners In Health.
Today, FACE AIDS continues to employ associations of individuals affected by HIV in Rwanda to make beaded AIDS awareness pins. We pay pin‐makers a salary and enroll them in a structured savings program, enabling them to start or strengthen small businesses and begin to move out of poverty. And, at high school and college campuses across the United States, FACE AIDS chapters continue to sell pins. All proceeds go to Partners In Health, to support the delivery of high‐quality health care in the communities where our pin‐makers live.
To date, the pin has helped to raise over $2 million for Partners in Health.
Please donate today at:
http://www.citizeneffect.org/projects/face-aids-ride-against-aids-2012-alice
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