1354 Cambodia: World AIDS Day 1 month Awareness Program
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Cambodia: World AIDS Day 1 month Awareness Program
PHNOM PENH: 11th December 2005 -- Don Bosco Cambodia
commemorated WAD 2005 with a one month Awareness activities program
culminating in two youth gatherings. On 9-10 November the WAD
2005 part one: "Coming Together" was organised for 250 children and
their caregivers from PLHA
environments. The topic was "AIDS is a health problem; let's face
and accept it courageously". The target group were beneficiaries
of the Project Support Orphans from HIV/AIDS with ARV medicines.
On 8-9 December, WAD 2005 part two: PLHA are sick
people; "let's understand them" was organised for normal and physically
handicapped children. This target group has 310 healthy children
from the project Basic Educational Scholarship and Distance Adoption.
The two activities were hosted by Don Bosco Centre
Kep, putting into action its slogan: "where the perfect combination of
relaxing and exciting facilities with a formation slant roll into one".
The Don Bosco Children Fund is a Salesian program
aiming to help disadvantaged children from the streets and rural
villages gain access to basic and better schooling. At present
there are about 5,000 children scattered in small units across the 14
provinces of Cambodia.
VOCABULARY
PLHA: People Living with HIV/AIDS
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