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Your support will go a long way towards giving 'voice' to
people from the grassroots. A key component of WACC's global strategy is
to explore and debate current international communication issues of
concern to global and local development. WACC's mission is to promote
communication for social change based on the belief that communication
is a basic human right that defines people's common humanity.
WACC's priority groups (women, youth, indigenous people,
and people living with disabilities and HIV/AIDS) advance peace
initiatives at all levels of civil society. Thus, WACC wishes to ensure
that communicators from these priority groups are able to attend
Congress 2008, which offers them a platform to share their vision of
conditions that lead to sustainable peace in their communities. Donate now and help send participants from one of the following priority groups to Congress 2008.
The following are examples of priority groups working at the grassroots level. Efforts like these will be strengthened with your contribution to support their participation at Congress 2008.
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Tackling stigma and misperceptions
Before the FUMI workshop and campaign, I was thinking that
people who are HIV and AIDS positive must not eat with healthy
people. Now I understand that people with HIV and AIDS can live for
many years if cared for by their families
Felicité
- a participant at the rallies
In Moundou, Chad, FUMI, (in English: Women United against Misery and
Ignorance) a partner of WACC, mobilised women and men in a 10-day
campaign to fight HIV and AIDS and their effects on individuals,
families and community.
Clad in T-shirts emblazoned with the message: “Protégeons-nous,
protégeons les autres contre le SIDA” (we protect ourselves by
protecting others against AIDS), the activists conducted open sessions
where Chadians across the city freely discussed the scourge with
doctors, social workers and other experts.
With your generous support, groups like FUMI (Femmes Unies Contre la
Misère et l'Ignorance) and women like Félicité can gain a better
understanding of the pandemic, be empowered to tackle
misunderstandings, misconceptions and myths around the
pandemic. Supported activists across the world are busy educating
about HIV and AIDS through activities including:
- rallies in the streets
- training workshops
- radio programmes and other tools.
WACC is committed to supporting communication strategies and
initiatives that contribute to fighting the spread of HIV and AIDS in
Africa and around the world, affirms Julienne Munyaneza, our Programme
Manager for HIV and AIDS, communication and stigma. “Every
intervention no matter how small makes a big difference in the lives
of the infected and affected by the pandemic”, she said.
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