REPORT OF WOLD AIDS DAY CELEBRATION HELD ON THE 1ST DECEMBER, 2010. { of Which Awaka Go Forward Int'l Was An Active Participant}

On the 1st of Dec, 2010 all NGO’S, CBO’S CSO’S in Imo state came together to celebrate the world AIDS day at FSP Mbari Road Owerri. The programme was organized by Imo SACA in conjunction with stakeholders and people from all works of life grace the Occasion. Personalities like her Excellency Barrister Lady Chioma Ohakim, commissioner of Health Dr Kwem, The Director general of Agency for control of AIDS Dr E.U Anyanwu and numerous schools in Imo state were there for instance, government college owerri, Holy Ghost college Owerri, Ikenegbu Girls secondary school, Akwakuma girl’s secondary school etc.

These schools also acted a drama on (HIV/AIDS) and the theme of their play- let is that discrimination among those living this HIV/AIDS should not be done, that the clients should have all the rights he/she should get in the society. In contribution to the world AIDS day, Awaka Go forward Int’l also produces over five hundred (#500) bead pin-up logo and two thousand IEC materials (#2,000) which was use to welcome guest for the occasion, and it was Recommended by Imo lights.

Notwithstanding, her Excellency Barrister Lady Chioma Ohakim gave a speech which focuses more on young youths where she lamented that their interest is more on white kola jobs than learning skills. She said, on the process of fighting to their white kola-jobs many now engaged themselves in all forms of immoral act, this can make them to contact this horrible diseases (HIV/AIDS).

Furthermore, she acknowledges the services these organizations rendered to humanity. Society for family and Health (SFH), National blood transfusion service (NBTS), she was also indebted to Hope walk organization for their benevolent attitude to the widows, orphans and the less privileges.

In the course of the programme a rally were conducted to ‘mark’ the 22nd World AIDS day in collaboration with Imo SACA and other NGO’S in Imo state, were the went to Owerri metropolis. This is to make the populace know that AIDS is real and also let the whole masses keep absslent from pre-marital sex more especially the youths and also for them to know their status.

At this juncture, we want to use this medium to thank the Director General of agency for control of AIDS for accommodating our bead pin-up logo and IEC materials.

It will interest us, if Imo state SACA, stakeholders, donor agencies and interested bodies to solicit with us; this will help us to yield a lager quantity of these materials so that numerous people will have access to it.

In conclusion, we enclose it with the samples of our materials.



Iwunna S.N
Programme Sectary