Report of International AIDS cendlelight memorial

[Guest guest]

Dear All:

The candlelight memorial was a community affair indeed! And we were thrilled to

see so many on our E-list there.

Being the marriage season, it was great to have someof you take time out to

drop in on the way to your other evening engagements.

Aditya Bandhopadhyay spoke about the probems faced by positive people as well as

social workers working in the HIV/AIDS programme. We were encouraged by strong

support at short notice from groups like The Patliputra round table, who rang us

up on the morning of the 19th and offered to send over 200 packs of

refreshments. Thanks Khurshid and Rohit.

The South Indian Cultural Association, Mobile Theatre, and the All India Anglo

Indian Association put up cultural items, while the group Integration from

Calcutta presented a theme piece called from bondage to bonding.

Mr ph Galstaun, the nominated Anglo-Indian MLA from Jharkhand was present

along with Glen Galstaun and boys from St. Dominic Savio's.

We were thrilled to see, several members of this E-group: among whom were

Augustine. Anamika [from jamshedpur), Fr , Sr Jyosita, Avhinav (who has been

a pilar of strength and the one who gave willingly of her new car for

transportation)

The candle lighting ceremony and walk was impressive as usual, this time the

large number of street children from Bal Sakha/Childline made several Hindi

papers write " Children carried candles to commemorate the memory of AIDS

victims "

Thanks must go out to Rwituja, Aditya, Lok, Augustine, Rachna, Sanat,

Glen,, Birendra,Margaret for enabling us to meet the expenses of

the project.

Krishner

on behalf of AASRA, patna

E-mail:<aasra@...>

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