let me explain.
i have been involved with an organization called one. it's a grassroots advocacy group that is striving to eliminate extreme poverty and preventable diseases in subsaharan africa. one's slogan is that we're not asking for your money, we're asking for your voice. basically what makes one different than other organizations is that instead of asking for money to help their cause, they pressure political leaders to vote accordingly and use their governmental power to help their cause.
one focuses on a lot of different programs but while we were at bonnaroo we were focusing on the beginning of the end of aids. i'm sure that like most of the people we encountered you probably don't know that they have discovered how to stop the transmission of hiv/aids from mother to child. all it takes is for the mother to use the proper medicine they have developed that only costs 40cents/pill. so potentially, if all these women with aids can get the proper medication, than we could see an aids free generation by 2015. pretty cool huh? this is big stuff people.
in the 1980s when there was a huge focus on hiv/aids, people had the chance to create a quilt square in honor or in memory of someone who fought against aids. this quilt was huge. and now. in honor of that, we are making a digital quilt. so we walked around the bonnaroo music festival and talked to different people and asked if they were interested to make a free quilt square on the ipads. the original quilt along with the new digital quilt will be displayed at the world aids convention coming up.
i'm trying to keep this short, but it's difficult to explain it all. but if you are interested in making your own quilt square and be apart of the new digital quilt, click here. and if you want to learn more about one click here.
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