Fundraising through event work is crucial to our organisation. The statutory funding we receive provides the bulk of our mainstream services, whilst any other specific funding for other services such as respite, welfare & training, is raised by ongoing fundraising throughout the year.
World AIDS Day December 1st
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. Around 95% of people with HIV/AIDS live in developing nations. But HIV today is a threat to men, women and children on all continents around the world. Started on 1st December 1988, World AIDS Day is not just about raising money, but also about increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education. World AIDS Day is important in reminding people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.
Sahir House have worked in partnership with many other organisations on Merseyside in raising money and awareness in 2007 in the lead up to this international day and would like to thank everyone who have supported us: All schools, colleges & businesses who have requested World Aids Day packs, all P.C.T.'s, Homotopia, Outsiders, FACT, Everyman Theatre, Unity Theatre, Radio Merseyside, Radio City, The Armistead Centre, Mountford Hall, Dead Good Poets Society, Arriva Trains, all LJM, Liverpool & Hope students, 60 Hope Street, News from Nowhere, WHISC... and everyone else who have had a fundraising collection or requested resources to support Sahir House, thank you.
If you would like to support Sahir House by organising an event please contact the Information and Publicity worker.
We all have an HIV status
HIV positive
HIV negative
Untested
Wear the red ribbon not just on World Aids Day but everyday.