FACE AIDS

FACE AIDS aims to build a broad-based movement of students seeking to increase global health equality. Working with Partners In Health (PIH), a respected health and social justice organization working to provide healthcare for the poor in nine countries, FACE AIDS runs income-generating projects with HIV associations in the Kirehe District of eastern Rwanda.

These projects help members gain income by making beaded AIDS awareness pins. HIV association members place a portion of this income into a group savings account that eventually provides each association with startup capital for a sustainable small business, offering ongoing economic empowerment to the HIV association members. Students in FACE AIDS then distribute these pins in fundraising and awareness campaigns on campuses across the U.S. During these campaigns, FACE AIDS members spread a message of solidarity and social justice and inspire their peers to take action against global health inequity.

FACE AIDS donates 100% of student fundraising proceeds, along with 1:1 matching grants from private donors, to PIH in Rwanda to support comprehensive healthcare for pin-makers and their communities. Since 2005, FACE AIDS has raised over $1.4 million to fight AIDS in Africa, and recruited over 150 chapters across the U.S.

By funding PIH, FACE AIDS connects students to the most inspirational and effective organization fighting AIDS on the ground and directly helps the pinmakers and their neighbors in Rwanda.

FACE AIDS pinmakers are men and women affected by AIDS in rural Rwanda. The pins they make and the stories they share inspire our US campaign. All funds raised go directly to Partners In Health to help our pinmakers, their families, and their friends fight AIDS.

Donations to FACE AIDS are used to: provide income for our pin-makers affected by HIV/AIDS in Rwanda; support our campaigns to engage students across the United States; and provide matching funds to inspire our chapters’ grassroots fundraising for Partners In Health clinics in Rwanda.

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FACE AIDS