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Help Sinikithemba
Posted on September 13, 2004
From Keefe Murren, Co-Producer/Director, iThemba:
Hi Everyone,
The Sinikithemba Choir, who I've been making a documentary about for the past year is holding a fundraiser in NYC on October 7th.
The Sinikithemba HIV Clinic that sponsors the Choir provides treatment, counselling and care to hundreds of people suffering from HIV in the Townships around Durban, South Africa. The infection rate in this area is over 35% of adults, but treatment is scarce.
Recently under pressure from activists, the Government of South Africa committed itself to providing treatment in the form of Anti-Retroviral Medication to everyone in need. There are currently over 5 million infected individuals in South Africa. Not all of these people require medication immediately, but many of them do. The Government program will take months, if not years, to meet the demand for treatment around the country. In the interim people are dying without the necessary medication.
Sinikithemba is embarking on a massive fundraising drive in order to provide treatment to those individuals who need it immediately, who can't wait for the Government program to get up to speed.
Please see below for the fundraising event they will be holding in New York City. 100% of proceeds go towards the purchase of medication.
Our short film iThemba (hope) may play as part of the night's entertainment.
I hope some of you can attend and contribute to this worthy cause.
See below for details.
Kind regards,
Keefe
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PLEASE SAVE THE DATE!!!
Sinikithemba Fundraiser
Thursday October 7th
7:00 ? 9:30
St. John the Divine
Tickets for the benefit are $50. Price includes dinner, entertainment, auction and raffle.
The Friends of Sinikithemba are hosting this benefit where one hundred percent of all funds raised will be used for the purchase of HIV/AIDS medications for the Sinikithemba House HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Program. The Sinikithemba
House, based in Durban South Africa, provides a full array of HIV/AIDS services to some of the communities hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.
Tickets for the benefit are $50. Price includes dinner, entertainment, auction and raffle.
For more information and to reserve a ticket, please contact Eunice Casey at ec2065@columbia.edu or Sarah Latimer at Project Samaritan AIDS Services at
(718) 681-8700 x2107.