Canada Africa Partnership on AIDS (CAP AIDS)
Resist! Survive! Overcome!
Join Team CAP AIDS and Run or Walk during the Scotiabank Group Charity Challenge on Sunday, September 28, 2008, and assist us to raise $50,000 to help Africans resist, survive and overcome the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Canada Africa Partnership on AIDS (CAP AIDS) is a small, volunteer-driven, registered Canadian charity that works in partnership with grassroots, community-based African HIV/AIDS NGOs.
With your help CAP AIDS can:
- Empower grassroots, community-based African organizations and enhance their capacity to provide HIV/AIDS relief services by providing them with resources
- Empower local heroes in Africa who face up to the challenges of HIV/AIDS everyday and help those infected and affected to resist, survive and overcome pandemic
- Help 200 oldest children of AIDS-orphaned families in Ethiopia and Uganda create viable livelihoods that sustain them and their younger siblings.
- Empower out-of-school and at-risk youth in Malawi reduce their vulnerable HIV/AIDS through income generation projects, leadership & advocacy training, recreation activities and violence prevention
Incentives:
- Registration is FREE for all (the first 10) Marathon, Half Marathon or 5K participants raising $500.00 or more in pledges for Team CAP AIDS.
- Qualify to win a Team CAP AIDS Grand Prize by:
- Soliciting the largest number of donors
- Raising the single largest donation
- Recruiting the highest number of runners/walkers
- Finishing Marathon or Half Marathon in the top 20/50
- Achieving the best Team CAP AIDS times in each of the running/walking categories
- Run alongside our Special African Guest Merima Denboba, a world-class marathon runner
If you cannot run or walk with Team CAP AIDS on September 28, you can still partner with Africans in their ongoing struggle to resist, survive and overcome HIV/AIDS by sponsoring a runner/walker or donating to CAP AIDS.
For more information please contact Obert Madondo, Team CAP AIDS Leader at 416 783 0002 or e-mail capaids@sympatico.ca. To find out more about CAP AIDS, please visit www.capaids.org.