By Daniel Marungu | C.E.O Tiba Africa Foundation
Wishing you a Happy and Abundant New Year for 2018!
We are pleased to tell you that our GAC Ambassadors are continuing to do a great job, especially Bwana Juma, Vice Chair of Tiba Africa Foundation, whose vision, dedication, courage and insight have been an inspiration to everyone. All through last year, our Ambassadors have been going around schools, churches and other social gatherings, bravely fighting against stigmatization and discrimination. Simply talking about their medical status and explaining the medical and social facts. This year, they vow to make our community an AIDS free community. They know that with the right treatment and the right insights our society can become AIDS free. It just needs people to be empowered to seek help and empowered to think differently. It is stereotyped-thinking that leads to the spread of AIDS in our community - and this have to STOP! Bwana Juma holds the vision of many more trained Ambassadors like himself and he and our GAC team are waiting with increasing concern for the money for more people to go through Tiba’s self-help project.
We are therefore continuing to fundraise with the greatest of urgency via GlobalGiving to enable a further 200 people to go through our self-help program and provide ten new Ambassadors to support people in the community living with AIDS/HIV. We are also seeking funding from the Elton John Foundation for some of the money we need for this. We have been asked to revise our initial bid and give more precise information about outcomes and expectations. This is good because it is helping us develop our thinking. We are also considering applying to other charities for help as well. If you have special knowledge about applying to charities or links with charities that may be able to help please let us know. I would like to I thank our UK-based patron Andria Falk for her solid "patronship" of TIBA and her mentorship and support to our Give Me Another Chance project. She shares our dream of creating a future where AIDS/HIV no longer carries the stigma and denial that make life so difficult for people here in the Kabiria, Kibera and Kawangware slums of Nairobi.
At GAC, we want to wish you a fulfilling and abundant New Year. Thank you so much for your support. It means a great deal to us. Please consider, If you are able to, supporting us through regular donations that will help us to plan ahead and walk with our shoulders and heads held high.
May God bless you!
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