2008 Woodie Awards
PPU hosts "Do you see Orange?"
Duncan McGregor
Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: News
Starting on Monday, April 7 the Pacific Progressive Union began hosting the "Do You Se Orange Campaign."
"Do you see Orange" is a campaign to raise awareness of the impact of HIV and AIDS on Africa.
PPU does so by having a large number of Pacific Students where bright orange "Orphan" shirts.
According to their pamphlet, the movement is important because one in twenty children in Africa is Orphaned due to HIV/AIDS.
Further, eighty four percent of the world's population with HIV/AIDS lives in Africa, about 5.3 million people.
An central part of PPU's campaign this week includes getting signatures for a petition to the federal government to renew PEPFAR, a bill which sent relief to Africa.
PEPFAR, which was instituted in 2003, sent $15 billion in world wide HIV and AIDS relief.
PEPFAR is the largest international single-disease health program.
On Friday night, PPU is hosting a trip to the World Vision Experience which that "transport[s] you to the heart of West Africa."
"Do you see Orange" is a campaign to raise awareness of the impact of HIV and AIDS on Africa.
PPU does so by having a large number of Pacific Students where bright orange "Orphan" shirts.
According to their pamphlet, the movement is important because one in twenty children in Africa is Orphaned due to HIV/AIDS.
Further, eighty four percent of the world's population with HIV/AIDS lives in Africa, about 5.3 million people.
An central part of PPU's campaign this week includes getting signatures for a petition to the federal government to renew PEPFAR, a bill which sent relief to Africa.
PEPFAR, which was instituted in 2003, sent $15 billion in world wide HIV and AIDS relief.
PEPFAR is the largest international single-disease health program.
On Friday night, PPU is hosting a trip to the World Vision Experience which that "transport[s] you to the heart of West Africa."
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