African Health Foundation

World Aids Day Gospel Music Concert

87 Edgell Road
Framingham, MA 01701

7:00 PM

[More event details to be provided shortly]

IMEC will provide the suites; we must provide the shipping and fees, about $20,000 USD. The clinic is ready to go so we are anxious to begin the lengthy process required to import goods to Kenya.

General Admission $20 Benefactor $40

Event Program Advertisement Available

To reserve tickets please email info@ahfhope.org or call 508-435-4528

SAVE THE DATE

DECEMBER 1^st, 2007

WORLD AIDS DAY

YOUTH CONVENTION

BEREA SDA CHURCH

108 SEAVER STREET, DORCHESTER MA 02121

Maurice Ojwang Jr. (12 y/o), a renowned youth preacher from New Jersey, will be speaking at the event.

HIV/AIDS is Real

“Straight Talk”
Based _____________________________(9 Scriptures)

AFTERNOON

GOSPEL MUSIC BENEFIT CONCERT

TO HELP MALELA-KENYA AIDS ORPHANS’ PROJECT

TOO GOOD TO MISS

INVITE ALL YOUNG PEOPLE AROUND YOU

FOR MORE INFO

CALL ELDER OWINO TEL 508 561 2115 OR SISTER VELMA LOVELACE Tel 203 334 0428

Please Join Us for an Evening with:

His Excellency Peter N.R.O. Ogego
Ambassador of Kenya to the United States

Saturday, July 7, 2007
6:00PM

Help us honor the commitment of his excellency in supporting grassroots organizations
that care for AIDS orphans in Kenya.

The evening will include dinner and a concert by the inspiring Reverend Lovelace and Lady D.

Plymouth Church
87 Edgell Road
Framingham, MA 01701
[google maps]

Tickets:
$50 per person
Benefactor level tickets $100 per person
Benefactor tickets include distinguished seating and a listing in the event program)

Proceeds to benefit nutrition, education and clean water projects in Malela, Kenya

Tickets and Further Information, please contact:

508-561-2115 or 617-378-1006

If paying electronically, please use the following link to be directed to our paypal acct and note the level of ticket(s) and quantity in the “payment for” text box:

If paying by check, please forward to:
(Checks payable to “African Health Foundation“)
P.O. Box 1774, Framingham MA 01702

Thursday, November 30

Get your club on! The African Health Foundation (AHF) teams up with Water Equals Life (WEL) to provide a night of dancing that will also help provide safe drinking water for children orphaned by AIDS. Half of the cover charge will go towards WEL’s summer 2007 efforts to build three wells in Malela, Kenya. The other half goes to your having a great time!

Location: Suite, 1 Boylston Place (aka The Alley), Boston

Saturday, December 2

Gift It Up!, Boston’s only alternative gift fair, is an opportunity to give truly meaningful gifts this holiday season. AHF joins 14 other non-profits in offering gifts that can change our world. For example, looking for a stocking stuffer? $10 will purchase mosquito nets to protect two children from malaria. A little more ($25) will pay for two meals per day for an AIDS orphan for one month. And for that special someone, give the gift of education-$100 provides a school uniform and fees for an AIDS orphan for one full year!

Location and Time: Arlington Street Church, Boylston Street, Boston, 11am to 4pm.

Saturday, December 2

Annual World AIDS Day Gospel Concert to benefit the Malela Hope Center’s Girls Education and Empowerment Project. In Africa, when children loose their parents to AIDS, girls are typically the most immediate victims. The goal of the education and empowerment project is to restore hope to the entire AIDS-stricken community by returning orphaned girls back to school. Enjoy an evening of music and fellowship—an experience you’ll find nowhere else in Boston!

Location and Time: Berea SDA Church, 108 Seaver Street, Dorchester, 5:30pm

If you can’t make it to any of this year’s events, you can impact the lives of AIDS orphans by making an online donation through either the African Health Foundation or Gift It Up!.

Thank you to everyone who came to the first annual 2006 AHF Conference on AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children. It was a tremendous event that highlighted so many social, economical, and scientific issues that impact the lives of children affected by AIDS and HIV. We’d like to thank our sponsors, speakers, attendees, and supporters who came to address an overwhelming global problem with so many different promising as well as currently effective solutions being employed today.

Please check back with us again soon for highlights, proceedings, photographs, and video of the conference as it becomes available.

For further information about how you can get involved and what we are doing to bring about positive change, you can email us at info@ahfhope.org.

Thank you.

You can Register Online today! Please click here to register, or for more information regarding group rates or sponsorship considerations please email info@AHFhope.org.

A Brief History of the BCD Cans for AIDS Orphans in Africa Project

Our names are Brian, Calvin (twins) and younger brother-David-King Owino. We founded BCD Cans for AIDS Orphans in sub-Saharan Africa in 1999. BCD stands for our initials and was founded on the principles of “Undugu” and “Harambee” Swahili words that means “brotherliness” and “pulling resources together for a common good of the weak members of the community”.

It all started when we learned about the starvation and deaths of many children in our village, Malela-Kenya due to AIDS, including our own cousins. We brainstormed and came up with an idea of conducting a “cans and coins” drive to support African AIDS orphans with necessities. We collect aluminum cans, cash in the deposits and send money to support AIDS orphans’ nutrition, education and water projects in Malela-Kenya.

When we started the project, we were three, but later many friends from schools, churches and the communities joined to help out in their own way. Some just gave us a place to put containers; others bring them to our residences; children always turn up to help with sorting, schools arrange for special days for children to bring cans, others collect change over period of time and call us when they are ready to donate.

In Malela, AIDS orphans are correspondingly involved in hands-on, income generating projects. The program is currently supporting over 400 AIDS orphans in Kenya. Our motto is “Little is Big with Faith”. Glory be to God.