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Monthly E-Newsletter
for
June 2008
We are blessed that there is so
much being done in our commun-ity, and we are grateful
for your participation to stem the tide of ig-norance, fear,
and isolation, and re-placing that with awareness, accurate
information, and inclusion. Here are the latest announcements,
events, oppor-tunities, and more. Check them out!
1. Helping Kids Prepare
for School—Kicking
Off A Drive to Collect Back-to-School Supplies for the Fall
2. June, African
Americans, and HIV
3. Pastiche Supports
TIHAN with 5% of Your Purchase in June—Philanthropy With
Phlavor!
4. Teach for a Good Cause
5. It's an Old Fashioned
Ice Cream Social"
6. Volunteer
Spotlight: Amrit Uprety
7. Memorial Service
Scheduled for Bill McManus—June 28
8.
Test Your Knowledge of HIV—True of False? Is the United
States One of the 12 Countries in the World to Ban
HIV-Positive Visitors?
9.
Pos or Not?
10.
Learning to Have Beneficial Boundaries
11.
Make Leslie Dance!
12. Become a TIHAN Team
Member
13. Take the Test—Take
Control
14. It's Not About the
Money—It IS About What the Money Will Do to Help Those in
Need!
15.
Bonkers About Mark Moellenhoff
16.
TIHAN Night at The Sidewinders
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1. Helping Kids Prepare for School—Kicking
Off A Drive to Collect Back-to-School Supplies for the Fall
Many of our CarePartners have
school-age children or grandchildren living with them, but
have limited income to purchase back-to-school supplies. TIHAN
is encouraging our congregations and individuals to help us
stock up on new backbacks, notebooks, paper, pens and pencils,
calculators, staplers, markers, folders, and other supplies.
At the end of summer, we will distribute these to our families
with kids. Drop off your supplies at the TIHAN office.
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2. June, African Americans, and HIV
June is an important month. This is
the 27th anniversary of the CDC mentioning the disease that
eventually became known as AIDS. This June, The Balm in Gilead
has a campaign (The Black Church Lights the Way) to get
10,000 African Americans to get an HIV test during this month.
Additionally, June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. June
8 is Caribbean Americans HIV Awareness Day. June 19 is Juneteenth,
a milestone in American history, when the last of the enslaved
Americans were released from slavery, commemorated by a local
festival and other events (call 883-5511 for more
information). In recognition of all of these important events
and activities, TIHAN's Poz Cafe lunch program for people
living with HIV/AIDS for the month of June is being sponsored
by the Tucson
Urban League Guild and two black churches: Prince
Chapel AME Church and Grace Temple Missionary Baptist
Church.
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3.
Pastiche Supports TIHAN with 5% of Your Purchase in June—Philanthropy
With Phlavor!
Throughout the month of June,
Pastiche Modern Eatery (www.pasticheme.com)
will donate five percent of every purchase to one of forty
charities of choice, including TIHAN. Any time you dine at the
restaurant during the month of June—and again in October—please
designate TIHAN as the charity to receive Pastiche's donation
of 5% of your purchase. In addition to lunch and dinner
(including late night dining!), Pastiche now features the $20
Summer Dinner Special, Sunday brunch, Friday night wine
tastings, and the Extreme Wine Ganga! Pastiche Modern Eatery,
at 3025 N. Campbell, opened over 10 years ago, and has donated
over $80,000 to various charities. TIHAN is proud to support
Pastiche and other local independent restaurants (for a list
of locally-owned restaurants, check out the Tucson Originals
website www.tucsonoriginals.com).
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4. Teach for a Good Cause
Thirty-seven percent of Americans "still incorrectly
think HIV might be transmitted through various forms of casual
contact, such as kissing…" (Kaiser Family Foundation,
2006) Be the first person to share the facts of HIV with
people who are interested in HIV/AIDS service!
Give presentations to volunteers and faith community
members to increase compassion and decrease stigma for
HIV/AIDS. All you have to do is attend TIHAN Volunteer
Orientation and Speakers' Training, stay up-to-date on
HIV/AIDS information, and be friendly, outgoing, and reliable.
Our next Speakers' Training is Saturday, July 12 from
9am-5pm at TIHAN, 1011 N. Craycroft Road, #301. You will learn
to share the facts about the disease and share your own story
of being affected by HIV/AIDS.
The training is $17 and scholarships are available. Please
RSVP by calling 299-6647. You can contact Ari Kelly, ari@tihan.org
or 299-6647, with questions.
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5. It's an Old Fashioned Ice Cream
Social
Why: We want to thank our
wonderful TIHAN volunteers for helping to make our programs
and services available to people living with HIV
When: Thursday July 31
Time: 6:00–8:00pm
(Open House Format)
Where: St. Michael and All
Angels Episcopal Church, 602 N. Wilmot (located at the east
end of 5th Street at Wilmot)
What: Ice Cream! With
entertainment by "Having A Blast", a local Sweet
Adeline's group from 6:15-7:00pm
- Please allow the TIHAN staff to
say thank you to you in person and join us for this
"old fashioned" event!
- Please RSVP by Thursday, July
24—Call the TIHAN office 299-6647 or email kim@tihan.org
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6. Volunteer Spotlight: Amrit Uprety
"You get out of volunteering what you put into it,"
states Amrit Uprety, a Nepalese native who came to Tucson via
Texas. Nepal is an independent nation located in central Asia.
Landlocked and isolated by the Himalayas, Nepal is bordered on
the west, south, and east by India, and on the North by the
Tibet region of China. Katmandu is the capital.
Amrit, who has been a volunteer at TIHAN since 2005,
concentrates on speaker training and volunteer orientations.
Through friends who are HIV+ and brochures from SAAF, Amrit was
led to meet another side of Tucson at TIHAN, one where he could
give back to the community via his time, energy, and talent.
Working as a tech support representative for Intuit as a US
based agent for accountants, Amrit relaxes by exercising every
other day, and seeking times of solitude, where he can be alone
to relax. This recharging enables him to re-energize and prepare
himself to return to helping others. Another outlet for Amrit is
buying something special for himself, not necessarily something
that he wants, but more in keeping with something that he needs.
For example, on a recent trip to Phoenix, he bought a watch.
Traveling and visiting parks is something that Amrit likes to
do. One of his favorite parks is Zilker Park in Austin, Texas,
which includes a natural spring-fed pool with an average water
temperature of 70 degrees.
An eclectic reader, Amrit's taste runs the gamut from poetry,
to Carl Sagan, to exploring other religions of the world. As a
Hindu, Amrit is accepting of peoples' faiths and hopes that
others feel the same.
Animated movies, such as Ratatouille, and adventure movies,
including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series are some of
Amrit's favorites. Amrit also likes to cook. One of his favorite
dishes to make is Aloo Gobi, an Indian dish made with
cauliflower, potatoes, tomatoes, cilantro, ginger, garlic, onion
and various spices. It is definitely a dish worth trying!
Amrit is a prime example of what makes an exceptional TIHAN
volunteer: a well-rounded individual who gives back to the
community. Amrit, TIHAN is honored to have you as a friend and
volunteer.
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7. Memorial Service Scheduled for Bill
McManus—June 28
Bill McManus will always occupy a special place in the hearts
of those of us who loved him—TIHAN's Board of Directors, of
which Bill was a member, along with the TIHAN staff, Bill's
CareTeam and many friends at TIHAN and Poz Cafe, SAAF, El Rio
SIA, the Consortium, his motorcycle group, and many others. He
will also be remembered by the hundreds of people that Bill has
touched through his speaking as a person living with HIV,
especially the youth that Bill talked to about HIV prevention.
Bill was a role model to many people, and had received
TIHAN's Empowerment Award in 2004 for his courage and
inspiration. He was an AIDS educator, caregiver, peer counselor,
father, brother, uncle, and friend. Please keep Bill and his
family and friends in your thoughts and prayers…
A memorial service for Bill is scheduled for Saturday,
June 28 at 10am at St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist
Church (4625 East River Road, at the corner of Swan and
River).
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8.
Test Your Knowledge of HIV—True
of False? Is the United States One of the 12 Countries in the
World to Ban HIV-Positive Visitors?
Yes, it's true. The 12 countries that have bans on allowing
HIV-positive people into their country as visitors or immigrants
are: Armenia, Brunei, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Oman, Qatar, the
Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sudan and… the
United States!
From Poz Magazine (www.poz.com):
Andrew Sullivan Blasts HIV Travel Restrictions
In a Washington
Post (washingtonpost.com,
5/14) opinion piece, HIV-positive political commentator Andrew
Sullivan urges the removal of the United States travel ban on
HIV-positive immigrants entering the country.
According to Sullivan, HIV remains the only medical condition
designated by law in the Immigration and Nationality Act that is
used as justification for restricting someone from entering the
U.S. He calls the ban—which violates United Nations standards
for member states—discriminatory to HIV-positive immigrants.
"Making HIV the only medical condition that legally
prevents someone from immigrating or even visiting is a signal
to people with HIV that they have something to be ashamed
of," writes Sullivan. "That stigma is one of the
greatest obstacles to tackling HIV across the world. The United
States has done much to reduce this stigma; it makes no sense to
perpetuate it in its own immigration policy."
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