2008 Calendars Are Finished!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
The calendars are now available for purchase in honor of World AIDS Day. Calendar's are $15. If you would like to sell some calendars to make a little extra pocket cash for the holidays and spread some good will, just email us at project.raiseyourvoice@gmail.com
Calendars: $15
Project: Raise Your Voice presents:
REDEFINE TIME New Years Eve Party!
When: December 31 from 8 PM to the New Year
Where: Tent 3, Saddleback Church
Why: Each ticket sold will help build a hospital in Butare, Rwanda in order to provide medical care for 40,000. It will be constructed in the summer of 2008.
Have an awesome time on New Years and help out in the process!
TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!
New Years Tickets: $15
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Statistics
HIV/AIDS:
The latest statistics on HIV/AIDS were published by UNAIDS/WHO in November 2007. It is estimated that there are 33.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in 2007. There are an estimated 2.5 million children living with HIV/AIDS and 0.33 million children have died from the disease in 2007. Africa has 12 million children orphaned by AIDS. Young people, under the age of 25, account for half of the new HIV infections worldwide.
Poverty:
Nearly three billion people, half the world's population, live on less than two dollars a day. According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die every day because of poverty.
Redefine Time Statistics:
210,000 children die each week due to poverty.
2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized.
Every 13 seconds a person dies from AIDS and every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by AIDS.