The Fourth Annual ‘Hunger Strike for AIDS’ On World AIDS Day 2010

from Kun Chang

Fasting can also keep you fit ! When people enjoy a rich material life nowadays, they find more and more people around them suffer from various acute or chronic diseases. High cholesterol, obesity and other “rich man’s diseases” appear one after another, which has not occured before. Moderate fasting contributes to good health.
Since World AIDS Day of December 1st 2007, We have held three consecutive ‘Hunger Strikes’. A total of 131 brave men from 16 countries participated in the Twenty-four-hour Hunger Strike action to support our cause of China’s AIDS prevention.
During the year of 2010, we discovered that we were not alone. World Vision Taiwan once held the ‘Thirty-hour Hunger Strike’ to relieve people who were subjected to disasters and diseases from pain. http://www.30hf.org.tw The name of the action comes from the original intent of fasting and prayer in the Bible that by the means of experiencing hunger we experience the feeling of the aftermath of the unfortunate. The world’s first thirty-hour hunger strike took place in a church in the city of Calgary in Alberta of Canada in 1971, where a group of Canadian teenagers experienced a 36-hour fasting to raise money for the famine in Ethiopia.
Chang Kun ,the General Coordinator of China Youth HIV/AIDS Assembly (CYHAA) , claimed that the most effective way to cope with the AIDS crisis was the broad participation of the public in public health field; and fasting helps to arouse love and sense of responsibility of the public, that is to fight against the humanitarian disaster brought about by the AIDS epidemic and to bear the responsibility of the state and nation, which is the responsibility of all the young people of China Youth HIV/AIDS Assembly as well.
The Fourth Annual ‘Hunger Strike for AIDS’ is also included in the ‘Notice: Activities in Honor of Two Outstanding Grassroots AIDS Activists Sun Ailing and Han Yunli’ released by China Youth HIV/AIDS Assembly (CYHAA) on June 19, 2010. Activity 5: The theme of the Fourth Annual ‘Hunger Strike for AIDS’ on World AIDS Day 2010 is to Commemorate The Dead In The AIDS Campaign Through Fasting!
Please join us!
Theme: To Commemorate The Dead In The AIDS Campaign Through Fasting!
Time: December 1, 2010
Location: Anywhere, please contact us first.
Theme Sites: Http://www.HungerStrikeforAIDS.org
Support Site: http://www.aidsrights.net http://oeo.la/Knbq8
General Coordinator:
Chang Kun
+86 013349108944
Changkun2010@gmail.com
How to act:
Way 1: to introduce ‘Hunger Strike for AIDS’ to your friends and family, service groups etc.
Way 2: To join the Twenty-four-hour Hunger Strike action
Please fill in the form or send SMS – ‘Name + Nationality + Location + E-mail address’ to 13349108944.
Way 3: Financial donations
To comply with all laws, administrative regulations and rules, We are fundraising merely by individuals. Chang Kun will receive the donations, and bear the responsibility of publicizing accounts and accepting supervision! All donations would be managed by Abbott Fund and be used for all the services and actions of China Youth HIV/AIDS Assembly!
Methods:
(1) Paypal Account: 13349108944@189.cn, please visit http://www.paypal.com
(2) Alipay Account: 13349108944@189.com, please visit http://www.alipay.com
(3) Other ways: please contact Chang Kun +86 013349108944
Way 4: Donations of works of art
‘China AIDS Museum Planning’ has entered the second three-year planning, the stage of the creation, collation, collection and exhibition of works of art and new media. To ensure the program on schedule, we established a group called ‘AIDS Art and New Media Creation’.
Way 5: To be volunteers
Please participate in all activities of China Youth HIV/AIDS Assembly, including the ‘Youth and AIDS’ magazine, China AIDS Museum Planning, AIDS Walk China, AIDS Art and New Media Creation etc. For further information, please visit our shared network drive: http://oeo.la/Knbq8

Notes:
(1).The strike last only for one day; please know your capabilities and only continue the strike as long as you think it is not endangering your health condition.
(2).If you have any symptoms that are abnormal, please contact emergency medical personnel immediately.
(3).If this is the first time you do a hunger strike, please make sure a friend or someone accompany with you in case anything goes wrong.
(4).Participation is of course voluntary; Participants have freedom of discontinuing the strike at any time. Participants are responsible for themselves.

The Fourth Annual ‘Hunger Strike for AIDS’ On World AIDS Day 2010
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(1).The strike last only for one day; please know your capabilities and only continue the strike as long as you think it is not endangering your health condition.
(2).If you have any symptoms that are abnormal, please contact emergency medical personnel immediately.
(3).If this is The first time you do a hunger strike , please make sure a friend or someone accompany with you in case anything goes wrong.
(4).Participation is of course voluntary; Participants have freedom of discontinuing the strike at any time. Participants are responsible for themselves.
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Changkun2010@gmail.com
Http://www.HungerStrikeforAIDS.org http://oeo.la/Knbq8

One thought on “The Fourth Annual ‘Hunger Strike for AIDS’ On World AIDS Day 2010

  1. Dr Stephen Muketha

    “In order to raise awareness on the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, the World Health Organization established World Aids Day in 1988. Observed on December 1st, it is a chance for organizations and individuals to “demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic.” According to 2008 data from the United Nations, approximately 33 million people around the world are living with HIV.

    In Africa Kenya Inter-Religious Aids Consortium ( KIRAC) was proposed and formed in 2001 with a wide mandate to co- ordinate HIV and AIDS Prevention, Care and Education, FBO’s country top leadership meet and draw resolutions on Faith Based Communities engagement in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Kenya.

    Top leadership of the faith community in Kenya met on 20th November 2003 at Karen. Nairobi under the umbrella of the Kenya Inter Religious AIDS consortium and came up with a number of resolutions as a show or commitment to jointly fight HIV/AIDS, KIRAC worked with FBOs on a campaign with the message “Be pure. Safe sex is never wrong.” And be faithful in your Marriage is a philanthropic NGO that hopes the campaign will change the perception of purity – that to remain pure, all it takes is protection. Several artists volunteered their talent for the project, creating art for T-shirts, print media, and animation.”

    I’m very glad to be part of this selected group!!!
    For more visit, http://www.kirac.or.ke

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