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You might remember last week I mentioned speaking with someone from AVERT regarding Aywas' HIV/AIDS fundraiser. I am very excited to now be able to share the details of that conversation with you!
After the fundraiser began, AVERT noticed an uptick in support and their Fundraising Officer, Anisa Ahmed, discovered our event and reached out to me directly with a personal thank you. I wanted to pass along part of this email because YOU made this fundraiser a success, and I think it's important you know what a difference your help truly made for one organization, let alone countless others.
Hi Eri,
I've just come across your Cracked Teacup Fundraiser to support HIV and AIDS on Aywas.com. It's really wonderful that you are raising money this way, we've had over $150 in donations over the past week which are all down to your fundraiser, which is an absolutely amazing amount, thank you so much!
The donations that you have raised will help us to run our website, providing information about many aspects of HIV and AIDS to a worldwide audience, help our partner projects in sub-Saharan Africa to provide community based support to those living with HIV and to implement initiatives to prevent new infections, and will ensure that our information and advice service can continue to respond to personal enquiries from people worried about HIV all around the world.
It's great that you've listed AVERT.org as an information resource, I hope that you have found our information useful and that others do too after seeing your link.
We were also given an official certificate of donation, which you can see in full by clicking here!
If you are interested in helping AVERT in the future or want to get involved in their projects, they currently have a campaign going on for David Odali and the Umunthu Foundation here that I encourage you to check out. They are trying to crowdfund for a CD4 count machine to bring HIV treatment to 20,000 people. There are also a lot of great informative resources on the page if you're just looking to read up!
With all of the fundraisers Aywas has done, I think this is the first time I've been personally contacted about our impact from an organization like this, and I hope you are as proud of our community as I am.
Thank you again!
- Eri
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(#17) on Sat Jun 14, 2014 11:40am
- ♑ Kat & AK ♈
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Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:22pm
Ty Eri for sharing the news & I like Tala � Chesh (#67) idea of listing them all on a page.
- Kei 🎃
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Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 2:04pm
This is so touching! I got a letter from the local group I donated to last week but it was more of a standard thing, something that they plug your name in to and send to everyone. It was still nice, but this? This is amazing!! Thank you SO MUCH everyone who was able to donate and even those who wanted to but couldn't. :D
- Sunny
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Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 2:46pm
That is SO awesome!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D
- Lunch & Obi
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Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 4:45pm
Fantastic job to all who donated! (I wish I could have at the time!) This is really cool. :)
- Chess, Tala, Jazz
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Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 5:10pm
Thanks guys! :D ~chesh
- Fannish (FreeFlier)
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Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 5:26pm
Tala � Chesh (#67) that is an awesome idea- I personally plan to keep 50-100$ aside to try and donate every time we do an event like this, and it makes me want to buy more from Aywas as well.
I personally donated to Unicef, just because I know them, and know the company is good about getting over 90% of every dollar donated directly to the causes they support including the Tap projects and the AIDS projects, but every single one was amazing this time. If we always have some well researched charities to donate to, I hope we have an event like this every few months, at least one a quarter, just because we can be an amazing force for good this way. :)
- odin
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Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 8:57pm
Awesome! <3
- Chess, Tala, Jazz
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Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 9:29pm
figured I might toss this out there, in case anyone would like to help. Thanks for the support, no matter. <3 Chesh
Posted on: Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:09pm
Tala � Chesh (#67) Such a good idea!! It's inspirational! All the good things.. What a great example to set - for Aywas, and other sites too :D