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"LIVE WITH A
PURPOSE
AND CHOOSE LIFE"
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CHOOSE LIFE CAMPAIGN
We believe that our communities would be greatly enhanced by the power of information: therefore, we are currently coordinating a HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaign - "CHOOSE LIFE". This campaign is necessary because statistics demonstrate that HIV/AIDS is on the rise and there is a wealth of resources and leadership to be utilized.
Our "CHOOSE LIFE CAMPAIGN" mission is to partner with the various HIV/AIDS programs in order to mobilize resources and to do outreach that will create a strong sense of self-worth and self-respect to help impressionable minds resist negative influences that may lead to engagement in risky behaviors.
Our goal is to have frank HIV/AIDS discussions openly in homes, churches and schools that will eradicate the stigma and secrecy that only information can bring. The taboo of homosexuality and promiscuity are enormous obstacles to educating the community. There is still a lot of shame that comes along with this disease. AIDS is still a taboo in the Caribbean largely due to secrecy, the disinformation and blaming the "victims" of HIV/AIDS for the disease - there still exists the tendency to assume that a person who has been infected must have done something wrong.
Funds raised will be used to provide resources, support within the AIDS community and to the under served communities, free condoms.
CHOOSE LIFE
Every moment, every movement, every second you make choices, whether consciously or unconsciously therefore, our goal is to help you through our outreach program to implement the tools necessary to make conscious choices that will impact a healthy life for you and your love ones.
Do you live in a basic state of unconsciousness while in the moment - completely unaware of the consequences of ideas and actions until after the moment. Do you simply function, exist rather than live - moving on "autopilot and not taking responsibility for your actions, reactions or behaviors. Despite this gray state of existence, you are surrounded by CHOICES at every moment, each an opportunity for change, each an opportunity to live consciously, to CHOOSE LIFE.
We ask you to choose to accept the realities that exist in the moment and even if you do nothing, it's important to realize that choosing to do nothing is in itself a choice. Once you understand that, you can move out of the state of unconsciousness in which you find yourself. Whatever your decision we ask that you CHOOSE LIFE.
We urge you to:
Love yourself
The degree to which you love yourself will determine the degree to which you are able to extend love to others. Do you love yourself?
Remember that love is not a feeling, it is a choice! Make the choice to love yourself. After all, who deserves it more? The more loving you are to yourself, the more loving you will be able to be to everyone around you. Family and friends will especially benefit from this. Make a choice to come from a place of love for yourself and for everyone who is important in your life.
Be responsible
We realize that your choice to be sexually active or not to be is a personal one. Our goal is to provide you with information that if your choice is to be sexually active you will CHOOSE to have a SAFER sex life. ALWAYS wear a condom. like all contraceptives, condoms are not 100% safe however, most condom failure is due to human factors such as the failure to use condoms consistently or correctly. Condoms stored at excessive heats for long periods of time and non-latex condoms, such as those made of sheepskin, are not adequate protect against AIDS because HIV can pass through the larger pores of these condoms. Many of these problems can be corrected through safer sex education which our CHOOSE LIFE CAMPAIGN will implement.
WHILE CONDOMS ARE NOT GUARANTEED TO PROTECT AGAINST HIV/AIDS THEY ARE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN PREVENTING IT.
Deuteronomy 30, verse19
"I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing therefore CHOOSE LIFE that both you and your descendants may live"
JAN'S HAVEN
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