A youth AIDS awareness initiative

Short Note:

It seems that things are getting really dusty. No choice, mugging is making mrchrispy very rusty.
There are so many things to update, but patience will make the posts worth the wait.

Last Saturday, a group of Nuffnangers were invited to a private movie screening by Open Your Heart.

Open Your Heart, as the name suggests, is an initiative thought up by a group of youth volunteers who see the need to raise the awareness of HIV/AIDS and its social implications through the creative use of a film and a photography exhibition.

The campaign hopes to reach out to youths to open their hearts to empathize with people living with HIV/AIDS and realise that the disease is more susceptible than we actually think it is.

The volunteers do not earn anything from the project and members have to source for funding or even fork out money from their own pockets.

It was only until Health Promotion Board came in and gave them a really nice sponsorship were they able to get the film and photo exhibition going.

The 30 minutes film, titled “August 29″, is about a girl who makes a surprise return to her ex-boyfriend James. What James did not know was she had contracted AIDS and was dying. James cried when he found out, but there wasn’t anything he could do except to walk her till the end of her life.

I only caught the final 10 minutes of the film because I WAS LATE (mrchrispy was acting diva-ish AGAIN).

You can, however, find out more about AIDS, watch the film and view the photo exhibition during Open Your Heart’s actual run of events this weekend at Orchard Cineleisure Foyer:

• 28 March 2008, 5pm.
• 30 March 2008, 2pm.
• 30 March 2008, 3pm.

The cast and producers from the movie will make a guest appearance and you can probably steal a couple of condoms from them probably say hi and take a couple of pictures with them.

AIDS is for life. Be safe and not sorry.