Sign up for AIDS walk New York May 17, 2015

Join us in the biggest single-day fundraiser for HIV/AIDS on May 17th in New York. In the past thirty years, AIDS Walk New York has raised millions of dollars to support prevention, care, and advocacy programs for HIV/AIDS-affected men, women, and families. The 30th Annual AIDS Walk New York will benefit not only organizations in the New York area, but also groups like Global Camps Africa that participate through the Community Partnership Program.

Global Camps Africa’s team members have already raised over half of our goal! Join us by registering at https://ny.aidswalk.net/Team/View/5139/Global-Camps-Africa-0565 and invite your friends by sharing our social media posts about the event.  Can’t make it?  Support Team Global Camps Africa with a donation to help us reach our goal and send 6 more HIV-affected children to Camp Sizanani and a year of Youth Clubs.

Beginning and ending at Central Park, the walk will be 10 kilometers long. The day will begin at 8:30 AM with check in at 59th Street and 5th Avenue. Afterwards, there will be an opening ceremony at 9:15 AM. The AIDS Walk will begin at approximately 10:00 AM, and should take about 2.5 hours to complete. For more information on parking and directions, please visit https://ny.aidswalk.net/Day-of-Event-Info.

Purchase tickets to 'Spreading the News' at the Newseum

'Spreading the News' is sponsored by:

For the past 10 years Global Camps Africa has changed the lives of South Africa's vulnerable children and youth by providing HIV/AIDS prevention education and training through high-impact residential and day camp experiences. 

This dynamic and powerful organization continues to grow.  We served 461 campers in 2012; 618 campers in 2013; and in 2014, 982 campers grew from the Camp Sizanani experience. Nearly 7,000 youth have attended Camp Sizanani with over 1,400 at-risk children attending the bi-weekly follow up Youth Clubs program in 2014 alone.

 

On April 25, you can make news, too, by joining us and special guest, Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize. She co-authored the #1 New York Times best seller Half the Sky and A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity with her husband, Nick Kristof. She will join us at the Newseum and will help us give young people hope, goals, and skills they never knew they could have.
 

The Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington D.C. 20001   

Catered by Wolfgang Puck's The Source

Purchase your tickets or sponsorship package today!

www.globalcampsafrica.org/spreadingthenews

How to Survive a Plague Screening a Success

Over 100 people joined Global Camps Africa in New York City at the Anthology Film Center on Thursday evening, November 6th, 2014, to view the screening of How to Survive a Plague.

The film, which chronicles the heroic activists in the 1980s that helped make HIV/AIDS into a manageable disease by fighting for better treatment, was warmly received and the audience was excited to ask engaging questions to our esteemed panelists. Led by moderator, Jeffrey Wright, and joined by expert panelists, Director David France, Dr. Jessica Justman, and Founder of Global Camps Africa, Phil Lilienthal, the group discussed a variety of topics with the audience that evening.

The discussion began with thoughts about the film and the surprising activism that took place in New York at a time when support for AIDS was not what it is today. There was a lively conversation about the current effects of Ebola and many of the parallels to a similar response by the public that the documentary portrayed.

The complex challenges of dealing with infectious diseases with significant stigmas that can create large scale fears throughout the world are issues that have been a part of the work that Global Camps Africa has done for the last 10 years. Phil Lilienthal spoke about camp and the importance of fighting these diseases with those who can be the most affected by intervention in the country that has the largest number of HIV/AIDS infected people in the world.

The evening was a tremendous success and Global Camps Africa would like to thank everyone who attended to make the event possible. Special thanks goes out to David France, Public Square Films, Bill Haworth & Sam Estep, Jeffrey Wright, Integrated Strategies, Ginger McGuire, IFC Films and Dr. Jessica Justman.

Join us for our screening and expert panel discussion about Ebola and AIDS

Moderated by Jeffrey Wright.  A public service announcement recently produced by Wright during the Clinton Global Initiative features national and international figures, including Idris Elba, Alicia Keys, Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, Forest Whitaker, and Partners in Health's Dr. Paul Farmer. This PSA reminds viewers that although Ebola remains a threat, many do survive with adequate treatment and care. Wright currently spearheads a major campaign, Ebola Survival Fund (#CrushEbolaNow) in association with Partners in Health, focused on stemming the Ebola outbreak in West African countries most affected by the virus.

Known most recently for his critically acclaimed work in The Hunger Games and Boardwalk Empire, Wright received a Tony Award®  in 1994 for his performance in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, and later reprised his Angels role for HBO that earned him both Golden Globe and Emmy® awards.   

Expert Panel:

Dr. Jessica Justman is an associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at Columbia University and has over two decades of experience as an infectious diseases specialist and a leading researcher on domestic and international HIV prevention. She is the senior technical director at ICAP and oversees all technical assistance, clinical and training, monitoring and evaluation, and health systems strengthening activities for ICAP’s HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs.  

Gregg Gonsalves, is a Research Scholar in Law and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, the co-director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, and a leading HIV/AIDS activist. He is founder of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition, which advocates for AIDS and TB treatment for all who need it, and a member of the Global HIV Prevention Working Group convened by Bill and Melinda Gates to assess HIV prevention research and programs internationally.

David France Director/Producer France is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author, who has been writing about AIDS since 1982, and today is one of the best-known chroniclers of the epidemic. Hailed by The New York Times as “a model for the here and now of how social change occurs”, the film is on the top 10 lists of over twenty major publications across the nation earning 12 nominations and seven wins during the 2012 - 2013 film season, including a nomination for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards®.

Phil Lilienthal, activist founder and president of Global Camps Africa, a nonprofit whose mission is to empower children for an AIDS-free tomorrow. These children are affected by many kinds of violence and have been affected by the HIV crisis in Soweto Township. Phil’s 8-day camps and the follow-up biweekly sessions provide a way for the children to see hope for their future. 

GCA Wins LinkedIn Innovation Grant

We are thrilled to share the good news that Global Camps Africa is one of just 25 worldwide winners of the 2014 LinkedIn Nonprofit Innovation Grants. 

The opportunity to compete for this grant was made available to us by a LinkedIn employee and long-time supporter of Global Camps Africa, Emily Ferdman.  Before joining LinkedIn, Emily worked in the camping industry and saw GCA's Founder and President, Phil Lilienthal, speak at an American Camping Association Conference years ago.  Since then, she has been seeking ways to support GCA.  She reached out to Phil in March to ask if we would like to partner with her to seek this funding...and the rest is history!

We are excited and honored that Global Camps Africa's 10 years of achievement and continuing innovation have been recognized and rewarded in this way.  The funds will be directed to the development of a Youth Clubs program designed for children under 11 years of age.  Many of these younger children are coming to Youth Clubs now with their older siblings.  But without an age-appropriate curriculum and vochellis trained in early childhood education, they are not receiving the full benefit of the program.  With the LinkedIn funding, we will have the resources to develop that curriculum, train a number of our vochellis, and deliver a Youth Club experience to the younger children that is better aligned with the mission of Global Camps Africa. 

It's especially gratifying to receive this award for innovation as we are in the midst of our 10th anniversary, celebrating all that GCA has already accomplished.  Together, we are part of something dynamic, growing, and rooted in success.  Thank you, GCA supporters and friends, for making it all possible.