As we turn back the clocks and change the batteries in our smoke alarms, let’s take five minutes and think of a way that we can make this winter warmer for people living with HIV/AIDS. I have devoted the thirty days between Halloween and December 1, World AIDS Day, to promoting non-profits that use their resources wisely to help the HIV/AIDS community. It’s my intention to make 30 people aware of the exceptional work that is done by these organization and to get 30 people to donate $30 to a worthy charity. God’s Love Deliver, Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and Rivington House treat their clients with dignity. AIDS Be Gone is the perfect example of entertaining while educating.
I never cry when I’m faced with 50 lbs of onions on a Sunday afternoon at God’s Love We Deliver. I consider it a privilege to chop vegetables for the 3,400 plus hot meals that the God’s Love volunteers deliver to the homebound each day.
I love the boys at GMHC! And their female clients are fun too. Gay Men’s Health Crisis was the first non-profit in the world to step up to the plate with a variety of services for the HIV/AIDS community. My four hour shift is always the high point of my week, as the GMHC staff and clients treat the volunteers like rock stars.
Rivington House, the Nicholas H. Rango Healthcare Facility, offers residental care for HIV/AIDS clients. Over the past five years, I’ve volunteered in almost every capacity from Art Therapy to serving breakfast and initiating some dreadfully unmelodious sing-a-longs.
AIDS Be Gone, founded by Angie Bowie, hosts musical events and produces compilation CD’s by talented and compassionate artists to raise money and awareness for several organizations devoted to HIV/AIDS research.
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