Party with a Purpose, September 17 2009. Artists for Charity Benefit San Francisco
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A PARTY WITH A PURPOSE
An Artists For Charity Benefit
September 17th, 2009
111 Minna, San Francisco
5pm–2am
$10 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
111 Minna has a full bar
Artists for Charity and Party with a Purpose SF invite the Bay Area community to the 2nd annual Party With a Purpose benefit to support the work of the Artists for Charity Children’s Home. Last year’s event raised over $12,000 for the home and we hope to make this year’s even more successful We will be hosting a silent auction with gift certificates to San Francisco’s favorite restaurants, salons, museums, and stores. In addition, we will be auctioning one of a kind art created by the children of the Artists for Charity Children’s Home.
Artists for Charity has willingly accepted the responsibility of raising HIV positive orphans under the following criteria: HIV positive children between the ages of 4 and 15 that have lost both parents (double orphans). HIV positive children in extenuating circumstances, such as extreme impoverishment or abuse (physical, sexual, or mental), regardless of age.
The AFC Children’s Home is currently comprised of a single house located in Addis Ababa which serves as a home for 16 children and the AFC administrators. The house includes a dormitory bedroom, kitchen pantry, dining room, medicine room, and study room. In order to ensure proper medical care, a nurse oversees the medicine dosing regimen and attends to minor illnesses and non-emergency first aid details. Because of the immune-suppressed status of the children, a sterile environment is maintained as much as possible. AFC ensures that all living arrangements are provided, including supplying clothing, toiletries, personal items, beds, bedclothes, transportation costs, school costs and supplies, medical appointments, and medicines.
In the year 2005, 800,000 children in Ethiopia were orphaned by AIDS. By the year 2014, however, there will be an estimated 2.5 million. Currently, organizations designed to care for orphans have reached maximum capacity, and the pace of their expansion does not match the increasing demand. In addition, only a small number of these agencies accept HIV positive children, and even these few have numerous restrictions (such as age, disability, etc) that limit the children accepted. Younger children have a much better chance of being placed in a residence than older ones, and those above the age of 8 have virtually no chance of being accepted.
While these children have the potential to become functional, effective members of society, they require additional help in developing this prospect. With prompt and continuous medical treatment, proper nutrition, and a sanitary living space, the lifespan of a child may increase by decades. Lacking the appropriate treatments, however, many will not even live 3 years after contracting the virus.
find out more:
http://artistsforcharity.org/
facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/abezash
donate:
http://www.artistsforcharity.org/donations1.html
An Artists For Charity Benefit
September 17th, 2009
111 Minna, San Francisco
5pm–2am
$10 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds
111 Minna has a full bar
Artists for Charity and Party with a Purpose SF invite the Bay Area community to the 2nd annual Party With a Purpose benefit to support the work of the Artists for Charity Children’s Home. Last year’s event raised over $12,000 for the home and we hope to make this year’s even more successful We will be hosting a silent auction with gift certificates to San Francisco’s favorite restaurants, salons, museums, and stores. In addition, we will be auctioning one of a kind art created by the children of the Artists for Charity Children’s Home.
Artists for Charity has willingly accepted the responsibility of raising HIV positive orphans under the following criteria: HIV positive children between the ages of 4 and 15 that have lost both parents (double orphans). HIV positive children in extenuating circumstances, such as extreme impoverishment or abuse (physical, sexual, or mental), regardless of age.
The AFC Children’s Home is currently comprised of a single house located in Addis Ababa which serves as a home for 16 children and the AFC administrators. The house includes a dormitory bedroom, kitchen pantry, dining room, medicine room, and study room. In order to ensure proper medical care, a nurse oversees the medicine dosing regimen and attends to minor illnesses and non-emergency first aid details. Because of the immune-suppressed status of the children, a sterile environment is maintained as much as possible. AFC ensures that all living arrangements are provided, including supplying clothing, toiletries, personal items, beds, bedclothes, transportation costs, school costs and supplies, medical appointments, and medicines.
In the year 2005, 800,000 children in Ethiopia were orphaned by AIDS. By the year 2014, however, there will be an estimated 2.5 million. Currently, organizations designed to care for orphans have reached maximum capacity, and the pace of their expansion does not match the increasing demand. In addition, only a small number of these agencies accept HIV positive children, and even these few have numerous restrictions (such as age, disability, etc) that limit the children accepted. Younger children have a much better chance of being placed in a residence than older ones, and those above the age of 8 have virtually no chance of being accepted.
While these children have the potential to become functional, effective members of society, they require additional help in developing this prospect. With prompt and continuous medical treatment, proper nutrition, and a sanitary living space, the lifespan of a child may increase by decades. Lacking the appropriate treatments, however, many will not even live 3 years after contracting the virus.
find out more:
http://artistsforcharity.org/
facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/abezash
donate:
http://www.artistsforcharity.org/donations1.html
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