It is stands for the AIDS day. The entire world celebrates this day every year since the 1st of December 1988. The world AIDS Day is about raising money, increasing awareness and improving education.
Marching With Fakklers Every year the UNAIDS chooses new theme for the day. The theme for 2009 is . The theme has been chosen to address the critical need to protect human rights and attain'Universal Access and Human Rights' access for all to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support. It also acts as a call to countries to remove laws that discriminate against people living with HIV, women and marginalized groups.
Like the rest of the other organizations and associations who care about AIDS problem, we in Møre Og Romsdal District were so worry to establish Ålesund new Red Cross youth group before the 1st of December to celebrate the day together, as it is one of our challenges in Møre Og Romsdal District. Fortunately we succeeded to get five new members, four females and one male. But the total number of the whole group by the leaders is ten members.
Before Intering The Place Of The Program We started our program by marching and holding fakklers from the district Red Cross office till Moa Mole, the place of the program, after we put some posters in different telling people the place.
Norwegean Church Aids Members The program was collaborated with the Norwegian Church Aids by one lady called Bente. They had the same program. We had a big Christmas tree decorated with big red ribbon and other small ones in addition to candle like lights. We put it in some area between moles.
I started to give people membership cards, pamphlets and reflects and asked them to fix the small red ribbons on the Christmas tree to make them feel their solidarity with the day. Also we distributed free condoms carefully because some people feel shy when taking it.
Fixation Of Red Ribbon On Christmas Tree By People I was focusing to give health education about AIDS, STIs as, facts of AIDS and the risk of the disease, as well as I askeded them to advice others also because the recent statistics of AIDS is fearful and according to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children. During 2008 some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus and estimated 2 million people died from AIDS. And 299 case of the diseased was diagnosed in Norway during the year 2008, 182 are males and 117 are females. And the total number of HIV cases in Norway is 4086 people. But the infection of Chlamydia is the most common infection in Norway.
Red Cross & Norwegian Chruch Aids According to the new youth members I stayed for long time with them showing how to communicate with other. Meanwhile we tried to recruit some youth to join Red Cross Youth.
Ålesund New You Youth Group Although the celebration of AIDS day in Norway quietly different from that in Sudan, because we found it so difficult to communicate with Norwegians, maybe due to their customs and traditions or they are in a hurry all the time and they have no time to lose in such programs!.
Pizza And Nice Time At the end of the program we had pizza and we were happy because we celebrated the day with that new youth group of Ålesund and reminded people that HIV has not gone away, and that there are many things still to be done.
