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Vancouver NGO receives award
Vancouver NGO The Shanti Uganda Society has been chosen as one of four recipients to accept The Crystal of Hope award and share in the $150,000 donation sponsored by Swarovski. Sadie St. Denis, executive director of Shanti Uganda, will be accepting the international honour from actress and producer Hilary Swank this Saturday in Vienna at the annual Life Ball. This year's Life Ball will be hosted by AIDS LIFE, a European NGO that is held to remember those who have suffered from AIDS and honour those raising funds in 36 different countries. The Girl Effect, a social change movement for adolescent girls, has been selected as the beneficiary as well. Shanti Uganda's Teen Girls Health and Wellness Program teaches young girls about healthy relationships, HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness, family planning, skills training and sexual reproductive health rights. Girls are empowered and inspired to make healthy choices and stay in school.
Banging their drums for the Gogos
Members of the talented Sardis Secondary Drumline have their eyes on Africa as they push to raise $10,000 for grandmothers caring for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
Options for volunteers
THE FOLLOWING is a selection of volunteer opportunities from various community organizations, made available through Volunteer North Shore, a service of North Shore Community Resources Society.
Three city eateries on dining out list
Dining Out For Life, B.C.'s largest restaurant fundraiser is coming to New West this week.
Duo hosts drive for orphanage
NORTH Vancouver resident Melodee Brown and her daughter, Saidee, a student at Handsworth secondary, are currently raising funds for an Arusha, Tanzania orphanage they plan to visit next month as part of an International Volunteer HQ mission to the country.
Dine out, help change lives
Three restaurants in Richmond have stepped up and will open their doors Thursday, March 7 to celebrate Dining Out For Life, BC's largest restaurant fundraiser.
Dining out helps people living with HIV
Every year, there's a few mandatory dinner-out night that come along - those typically include Valentine's Day, anniversaries, and birthdays.
The Hep C gap
A recent survey conducted by the Canadian Liver Foundation (CLF) has found that confusion and a lack of information may be standing in the way of Canadians with hepatitis C being diagnosed and treated.
Needle facts speak for themselves
As a scientist, it was disturbing to read that the ongoing discussions regarding needle exchange in Abbotsford arrived at a simple difference of opinion regarding the benefits and shortcomings of these programs.
Fred unleeshed
AND WORLD PEACE: Nearly 1,000 people filed into the Vancouver Convention Centre for the 18th Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant. Ten young women paraded the stage in cocktail dresses, bathing suits, evening gowns and cheongsams vying for the coveted title and tiara. Twenty-year-old UBC student Gloria Tang, born in Hong Kong, captured the crown. Veronica Shiu and Christina Wang were first and second runner-up respectively. The 18th edition also raised $228,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society.
Grandmother outraged Ottawa kills bill
At least one local grandmother, as well as grandmothers across the country, was outraged and disappointed recently when a bill designed to send life-saving generic drugs to developing countries was defeated in the House of Commons.
She hopes people will stop giggling
(Warning: The following feature contains explicit sex information and terms.)
'Red Ribbons 4 Life' vigil, fundraiser Saturday in Surrey
Saturday, Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and will be marked locally with a candlelight vigil and fundraiser.
Bowled over by community support
feisty group of local grandmothers from Chilliwack, Sardis, Ryder Lake and Yarrow have combined forces with several local potters to collabo-ate on a fundraising effort to support grand-others in Africa.
Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation turns 20
TWENTY years after his death, the legacy of Dr. Peter Jepson-Young has endured with the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation.
City grannies are changing the world
The Royal City Gogos are living proof that grandmothers can make a difference.
Cambodian dancers perform tonight at tsaw. alliance
A group of young dancers from Place of Rescue in Cambodia will perform at Tsawwassen Alliance Church tonight.
