March 3, 2016
by Teresa Sullivan, Senior Member of PWN-USA Philadelphia, Board Member of PWN-USA
In June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS related illnesses, and to thereby help people understand the devastating impact of the disease.
This meeting of devoted friends and lovers served as the foundation of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Today there are NAMES Project chapters across the United States and independent Quilt affiliates around the world. Since 1987, over 14 million people have visited the Quilt at thousands of displays worldwide. Through such displays, the NAMES Project Foundation has raised over $3 million for AIDS service organizations throughout North America.
AIDS Fund has partnered with the Names Project Foundation to present panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. On March 5, 2016, PWN-USA Philly Regional Chapter and the AIDS Fund will display one of the panels in honor of those who are gone but not forgotten at our Annual National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day event at The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., Philadelphia PA 19104. Below is the panel display:
As women activists, we must always remember our Herstory in order to change the future for women living with HIV or AIDS!
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