How You Can Help
1. Learn all you can about AIDS in Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, an estimated 6,000 people are dying every day due to AIDS, which is more than ten times the number of people dying from wars in Africa. As a result of HIV/AIDS, the number of orphans is increasing year-by-year in sub-Saharan Africa. While at the end of 2001 more than 16 million of sub-Saharan Africa’s children had lost their mother or both parents, this figure is expected to rise above 21 million by 2010. (soschildrensvillages.org).
2. Contact your politicians in whatever country you live in and ask them to act now to increase HIV/AIDS awareness programs, funding for effective HIV/AIDS medications in developing countries, and especially for support for AIDS orphans who need to continue their educations.
3. Donate to JUMP to help us continue training youth in developing countries to use media power to make their voices heard and create positive social change in their lives.
4. Join the ONE campaign to make poverty and AIDS history: www.one.org
5. Support AIDS orphans in Kenya.
6. Get involved in JUMP! Start your own JUMP club or identify a group of young people in a developing country who would like to become a JUMP station. Email us at info@jumptochangetheworld.org.
Whatever it is, just do something. Every small act and small donation add up to a movement that will stop the AIDS pandemic and the suffering that it brings to young people.