What Does SOLID Do?

UBC Pharmacy presents:

The second annual

SALA Hantle SALA Hantle Walk & Fun runWalk & Fun runfundraiser for HIV/AIDS care in Africa

online registration & fundraisingwww.staywellafrica.com

SUNDAY MARCH 15, 20095 km Walk/Run & 10 km RunRace Day Registration: 8:00 AMWalk & Run Start: 9:00 AM

CROSS INSTALLATION Sunday March 8, 2009 @ 12:30 PMMeet on Main Mall across from the Angus Building

Do you want to volunteer?Visit www.staywellafrica.com to find out how.

http://www.staywellafrica.com/

Sala Hantle (Stay Well) Africa Walk and Fun Run

2009

UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Salt Spring Organization for Life Improvement and Development

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Sala Hantle (Stay Well) Africa Walk and Fun Run

✦In 2008 UBC Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences contacted SOLID to collaborate on a fundraising event

✦This highly successful event raised over $11,500 for SOLID’s Health Projects

SOLID’s History

✦SOLID was founded in 2000 on Salt Spring Island

✦SOLID exists to support HIV/AIDS affected communities in Sub-Saharan Africa

✦Focus on Health, Education and Food Security

SOLID’s Goals

✦ To facilitate the success of community led projects in

Sub-Saharan Africa✦ Create long term, sustainable

relationships between western Canadians and communities in the south

✦ Address the urgency of global wealth inequality by facilitating the exchange of goods, ideas, and much needed resources

SOLID’s Projects

Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Centre, Malawi

✦ Provides palliative care to people suffering the complications of HIV/AIDS

✦ Objective is to alleviate pain and bring peace through a holistic approach to patients and their families



Khamboke School Swaziland

✦Sipho Mamba has created a school for over 90 orphans and vulnerable children on his family homestead

✦The Centre also helps local people re-establish traditional crops and learn permaculture techniques





Phelisanong Special Needs Centre

Lesotho✦Resource centre, primary

school, pre-school, HIV/AIDS support groups, community clinic, outreach program and handicraft centre supporting adults and children with special needs and abilities



Pamoja TwawezaKenya

✦ HIV/AIDS Outreach project in the slums of Mathare and the Export Processing Zone of Ruaraka

✦ SOLID supports the training of workers as peer educators in HIV/AIDS, workers rights, and prevention of family violence, with a focus on workers, women and girls





Tasaru Girl’s Rescue Centre

Kenya✦Amongst Kenya’s Maasai

people, SOLID supports a campaign educating girls and ending female genital mutilation

✦Involves Tasaru Rescue Centre and community outreach programs

Masango Cultural CentreZimbabwe

✦ Focus on keeping the vital traditions of the Zezuru tribe alive by creating forums for the arts and daily life to be shared and practiced

✦ Supports practices such as organic farming, natural building, collective leadership and ceremony

Apple Trees for Orphans

✦Provides fruit trees for orphans in Africa

✦Provide a source of nutritious food and income generation

✦Project provides seedlings and training to help orphans gain a more secure future

SOLID’s Canadian Initiatives

✦ A Day of AIDS - a public art event of thousands of crosses signifying the number of people that still die every day of AIDS

✦ World AIDS Day Events✦ Community to Community

Conferences✦ SOLID Exchange - promoting

grassroots production and distribution of artesian goods from our Southern Partners

SOLID’s Contact Details

✦ SOLID can be reached at125 McPhillips AvenueSalt Spring Island, BC(250) [email protected]

Thank-you for your support

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.solidsaltspring.ca/