The Mulago Positive Women's Network of Uganda announces a new fund-raising affairs to accession much-needed funds in abutment of families active with HIV/AIDS and acute abjection in Uganda. This fund-raising affairs is advised to acquiesce the accessible to get complex in the fund-raising action while adopting acquaintance of Africa's challenges and cultures. The money aloft by these fund-raisers will be acclimated by these families to brainwash their accouchement and accommodate them with added comestible support. "UNITED 4 UGANDA" !
Austin, Texas -- On the one year celebration of the enactment of their website, the Mulago Positive Women's Network (MPWN) is admiring to advertise their new beat affairs -- "UNITED 4 UGANDA".
In its aboriginal year, the MPWN website (www.mpwn-uganda.org) has admiring absorption from bags of humans and has resulted in the MPWN architecture a solid accord with the Executive Networks alignment (www.executivenetworks.com) to plan on development projects in Uganda.
BACKGROUND
The MPWN was started in January 2004 to abode the appropriate needs of HIV+ women in Uganda. Based in Kampala Uganda, the MPWN functions as a abutment arrangement to abetment its associates in "living positively" with HIV/AIDS. The MPWN is affiliated with TASO (The AIDS Support Organization -- www.tasouganda.org) of Uganda -- one of the longest accustomed and a lot of celebrated African-initiated AIDS organizations in the continent.
Agnes Nyamayarwo is the capital facilitator of the Mulago Positive Women's Network. She has generally been referred to by Bono (U2) as one of the "heroes" of the AIDS communicable in Africa. In 2002, during a cruise to Africa, Bono visited with several associates of TASO, including Agnes, and was aggressive by her adventuresomeness in her claimed attempt with HIV/AIDS. Agnes would become a capital apostle on the "Heart of America" bout with Bono in December 2002 which launched DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa -- www.data.org). Agnes is aswell a capital agent for ONE, the Campaign to Make Poverty History (www.one.org) area she continues to this day to advocate on account of the world's atomic people. Bono continues his activities for Africa through DATA and ONE as able-bodied as through RED (www.joinred.com) and EDUN (www.edunonline.com)
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
In the endure year, through the accumulated efforts of online auction of the MPWN crafts and donations, over $5,000 accept been aloft to accord added banking abutment to the women of the MPWN as they attack to advance their families in the bosom of poverty. All the money aloft on account of the MPWN is acclimated by the women to forward their accouchement to academy and to accommodate added diet for them. But as the charge is great, it is hoped that the "UNITED 4 UGANDA" affairs will bifold the aggregate of money aloft this year on account of the MPWN.
If absorbed in accommodating in the "UNITED 4 UGANDA" program, amuse appointment our website at www.mpwn-uganda.org or alarm (512) 992-7782.
The "UNITED 4 UGANDA" Program
The "United 4 Uganda" Program is a co-ordinated accomplishment by anxious individuals and organizations to accommodate added bread-and-butter abutment to the women of the Mulago Positive Women's Network (MPWN) of Uganda. The accomplishment will be spearheaded by those complex with the website of the MPWN (www.mpwn-uganda.org) and cover breath accord by involving its supporters to anon get complex in fundraising efforts for the MPWN. The name of the affairs ("United 4 Uganda") is a accustomed addendum of the byword acclimated for years by the MPWN's allotment organization, TASO (www.tasouganda.org). That byword is "United Against AIDS".
HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS
This affairs will be a absolute people-to-people affairs which operates on the action and the activity of the individuals involved. Individual "United 4 Uganda" kits will be accessible for a donation of $75.00 to the MPWN.The kits will cover one of anniversary of the items below:
- African Shopping Basket
- African Mother w/ adolescent Doll (the "Agnes" doll)
- Paper Bead Necklace (multicolored strand)
- "Coffee Bean" Basket
Along with these ability items from the MPWN, anniversary client will aswell accept advice bedding apropos the listed items above, blush prints of the women of the MPWN in the action of authoritative the items, an Order Sheet on which to almanac the aggregate of these items awash and 10 - 15 chargeless MPWN postcards to forward to accompany and ancestors to appear an "African Craft Benefit" on account of the Mulago Positive Women's Network of Uganda.
HOW THE AFRICAN CRAFT BENEFIT WORKS
Similar to added "in-home" parties, anniversary actor in the "UNITED 4 UGANDA" affairs will be amenable to align and accomplish as abounding of these "African Craft Benefit" contest for the MPWN as they wish. The added contest completed, the added money aloft for the women of the MPWN and the added pride that participants can feel that they accept fabricated a actual aberration for acceptable in the lives of these women and their families. Each "African Craft Benefit" will be hardly altered from anniversary added as the programming of anniversary accident will be abundantly larboard up to the actor hosting the event.
We, at the MPWN website, will be added than accommodating to plan with any actor in the "UNITED 4 UGANDA" affairs in putting calm their accident in agreement of African music, foods, customs, language, games, etc that can be included in their "African Craft Benefit" if asked -- or the actor can actualize their own.
Once the accident is over, the "UNITED 4 UGANDA" adumbrative will be amenable for accepting their Order Sheet, complete with payment, to us at the MPWN website.Once transaction is received, the adjustment will be beatific out aural two business canicule to the "UNITED 4 UGANDA" adumbrative for disbursement.
Each "UNITED 4 UGANDA" adumbrative will be accustomed up to a 5% allowance from the auction of the MPWN items at their accident or maybe accord that to our accomplishment for these women.
Each adumbrative WILL accept a claimed "Thank You" agenda and allowance from the MPWN website for all their adherent efforts to advice these women and their accouchement "live positively" with HIV and to affected the abjection in which they live.
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