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Friday, August 26, 2005
Can you help?
The tickets for the Illume event are selling slowing (we only have 200). I am looking for anyone who could help give some press to this event. We should sell out of tickets because this is an important cause. I met Jeri Oliver over a year ago at the AIDS Trek kick-off. She told me her story.
Jeri (a pharmaceutical rep.) was at a conference that had a basketball team from Africa (showing what the new medicines where doing). After the event the boys sponsors defected, leaving the 9 boys without anyone. One of the boys jokingly asked Jeri if she would adopt him. She asked about his family being concerned. He said his parents had died of AIDS. Then several other of the boys said they were orphans of AIDS also. She took four of them home. After finding out more from these boys she traveled to Africa to find out first hand. She decided right then to adopt their village and sponsor the AIDS orphans there.
I know it seem like a huge task (15 million AIDS orphans in Africa), but she is doing it one village at a time. Illume (http://www.illumeinternational.org/) is using the money to buy school uniforms, food, and education for the orphans. I don't think we realize how luck we are in the USA.
So how can you help?
Go to the Wilde Roast Cafe, Sam's Wine Shop, Chocolat Celeste or Tangletown Gardens and buy a ticket to the event (nobody takes a salary from Illume), and tell a friend to join you. Trust me this is a good thing!
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