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Posted by: host 2/2/2006
We need financial angels

I won't make any bones about it. For the impressive educational work we do in the U.S. and around the world, TeenAIDS is run on a shoe string. It's almost unbelievable. Since 1997 when we were incorporated as a non-profit charity, I have put all of my life's savings into TeenAIDS. I volunteer; you heard correctly. I have never taken the annual salary voted to me by the Board so that our money would go to our educational programs. In the past eight years, I have been able to raise $450,000 from friends and people who believe strongly in my direct approach to get teens the medical facts to protect their lives. We've had additional tens of thousands donated to us in-kind (see my note of thanks to in-kind donors under the Help Us section above). Over 200,000 youth have been directly contacted by me in 22 U.S. states and 73 countries in the first-ever, global AIDS prevention walk. Today, thousands of PeerCorps volunteers reach out to their friends and peers. We are grateful to everyone who shares the vision of TeenAIDS.

Now we are moving to the next level of interaction. Our goal is to reach 1,000,000 youth in the next three years using the best tools modern technology has to offer. Supplementing my personal street outreach, will be the power of the internet through cyberspace. The goal of our revamped website is to start meaningful conversations about HIV/AIDS and the role this danger plays in young, unsuspecting lives in every corner of the world. Yet, this grand plan takes money.

I am looking for ten Angels who will "give or get" $15,000 this year to TeenAIDS. Already, one has come forward. Next week, you can read about him in a new feature, "Donor of the Year - 2005" (he has donated before and generously).

What about me?

Well, I have come to this humanitarian mission from a number of different paths. So I'll start by telling you that I like to draw. You can check out my drawings at: www.chittickdrawings.com . It's still under construction but you might enjoy my eye.

"I've got an AIDS needle!"

In my hometown in north central Massachusetts, a man wielding what he said was a needle contaminated with the "AIDS virus," held up a local CVS store. He got the money from a very frightened young clerk. Then a few stores in other locales reported the same threat and personnel quickly turned over the money. Can you imagine? Guns and knives are being exchanged for syringes half-filled with human blood! Obviously, young people are afraid of HIV/AIDS via needles so prevention education has succeeded on that one level. The same week, TV news showed the tape of a surveillance camera in a 24 hour store as an angry shop-owner beat up a gun-toting robber. Go figure!
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