To learn more about HIV/AIDS in Africa
The AIDS Pandemic
If you are looking for up-to-date, reliable information about AIDS in the world, please check either of the following sites:
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PRINT MATERIALS - Posters & Brochures
Feel free to download these resources and post or distribute in your workplace, or contact us at info@giveaday.ca to arrange for materials to be delivered to you.
* A Tribute Postcard is used when a donation is made in another person’s name. As the GAD campaign is close to the holiday season, the postcard will read “This year as a gift I wanted to give you something truly meaningful, I made a donation in your name to…”
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Email Signature
Here’s a creative way to spread the idea to your friends and colleagues. Consider an email signature that will challenge other workplaces to Give a Day to World AIDS.
Follow the Help instructions in your mail software to add a signature at the bottom of every email you send. It could read…
On December 1, I’m giving a day’s income to battle the AIDS pandemic! Will you consider doing the same? Check out www.giveaday.ca
Web Site Tools
Use these tools to set up an internal site or blog about your Give a Day workplace campaign.
Set-up a separate page for your Give a Day workplace campaign - post your workplace donation goal, provide info on how to donate in your workplace, post event info, link to the Give a Day site, subscribe to the Give a Day Blog, Facebook group, and Follow Us on Twitter! All the links are below.
Here’s some tools to help:
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There are some excellent books and multimedia resources that may be helpful in your campaign.
Book Suggestions
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"The Bottom Billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it" by Paul Collier. |
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"Half a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. |
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"The Thing Around Your Neck" by Chamamanda Ngozi Adichie. |
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“28: Stories of Aids in Africa” by Stephanie Nolen of the Globe & Mail. Buy several copies and share them with your friends and colleagues! |
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“Race against time” by Stephen Lewis - based on the 2005 Massey Lectures. |
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“The Heaven Shop” by Deborah Ellis is written for young readers (beginning about Grade 7). Why not read it aloud as a family? It will open your eyes, bring you to tears, and make you want to reach out. |
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“Chanda’s Secret” by Allan Stratton is appropriate for Grade 9 and upward. It is also an excellent book for your family to read and discuss together. |
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“We are all the same” by Jim Wooten is a true and provocative story which is highly recommended. |
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“Black Death: AIDS in Africa” by Susan Hunter gives a detailed look at the background of AIDS in Africa with discussion of what lies ahead. |
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“As they see it: The development of the African AIDS discourse” by Raymond Downing is a fascinating look at the AIDS crisis as documented by African scholars. |
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“Moving Mountains: The race to treat global AIDS” by Anne-Christine d’Adesky. |
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“An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century” by Dr. James Orbinski is a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many forms. |
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YouTube Channels
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“The Bicycle”(2006) is a short film from the National Film Board, featuring the work of Dignitas International; available through the Dignitas International office. |
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Film Trilogy available through the Stephen Lewis Foundation: three 30 minute films on the effect of the AIDS pandemic on grandmothers, orphans and women in sub-Saharan Africa and the work of grassroots organizations to support to communities in strife.
“Grandmothers: Africa’s Unsung Heroes”
“A Generation of Orphans”
“Women: The Face of AIDS” |
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“A Closer Walk – a film about AIDS in the world” (2003) is an excellent resource. It could be shown at a workplace lunch meeting. It can be ordered through www.acloserwalk.org or www.directcinema.com |
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CBC Documentary “The Value of Life: AIDS in Africa Revisited” (2003) can be ordered from the CBC website. |
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“Race against time” (see above under "Book Suggestions") is available in audio format. |
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“Yesterday” (2004) is a moving Oscar-nominated drama based in South Africa, available through www.amazon.ca. |
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“Tsepong: a clinic called hope” (2005) is a 1-hour film telling the story of Canadian medical personnel responding to AIDS in Lesotho, Africa; available through www.whitepinepictures.com. |
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“Their Brothers’ Keepers” (2005) A film about 2 child-headed families; 55 minutes in length; available through www.bullfrogfilms.com. |
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“3 Needles” (2005) tells the story of the AIDS pandemic from 3 different perspectives. This should be available at your local DVD rental facility. |
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“A Grandmother’s Tribe” (2007) A one-hour documentary about the lives of grandmothers caring for AIDS orphans in Kenya. Available through www.agrandmotherstribe.com |
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“Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma” A documentary about humanitarianism through the experiences of Dr. James Orbinski; coming
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For more resources from our recipient organizations, please go to:
Stephen Lewis Foundation - Materials
Dignitas International – News and Events
As part of your workplace campaign, you may choose to hold a Harambee – at your workplace or at your home. Visit the Harambee pages for steps, tips and tools.
Speakers
As much as possible Give a Day will try to accommodate requests for a speaker.
Please get in touch with us with the details of your request at coordinator@giveaday.ca
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