African Dinner Fundraiser for Embrace AIDS

CRWRC Newsroom | April 17, 2008

Forty volunteers from First,  Living Hope, and Redeemer CRCs in Sarnia, Ontario hosted 180 guests on April 11 to raise awareness, and money for CRWRC’s Embrace AIDS campaign. The event, held at Sarnia Christian School, raised $6400 to help expand CRWRC’s HIV and AIDS work around the world.

Event volunteers dressed in traditional African clothing served guests home-cooked African dishes like African meatballs, and Abidjejan cabbage salad. “In order to allay people’s fears about what we would be serving, one of the deacons announced that we ‘wouldn’t be serving chocolate-covered grasshoppers!’” writes one volunteer.

CRWRC Director Ida Kaastra Mutoigo spoke passionately about CRWRC’s HIV and AIDS work around the world, and the importance of CRC churches to get involved. A speaker involved in HIV and AIDS work in the London, Ontario area addressed the local, and national issues associated with the disease.

“This brought the matter of HIV-AIDS closer to home and helped us not to forget that this tragedy is not just something that happens somewhere else,” writes one event volunteer.

April 20 is Embrace AIDS Sunday – but please don’t stop your HIV and AIDS campaigning there. CRWRC’s Embrace AIDS campaign will go on, and CRWRC is here to help you in anyway we can to raise money, awareness, and voices for people infected with, and affected by, HIV and AIDS. For more information visit www.embraceaids.org.