Hey y'all
The "Wear a Red Ribbon Today" is a new initiative from Ugandan Bloggers to start an awareness drive. This drive is intended to remind people to do everything to protect themselves from HIV/AIDS. Everybody is targeted with this message. Unlike all these other messages designed for this purpose, this one is a simple one.
It basically involves a small red ribbon and you! Wear your red ribbon everyday and it will get the message across. Your ribbon will serve as a reminder to u and to whoever sees it that they made a promise they aren't going to break. The promise here is to protect ourselves from HIV/AIDS. By Abstaining from sex. Maintaining a faithful relationship with your sexual partner and using Condoms.
With this, we sure gonna conquer this demon. But, we need to keep reminding people about it. Its simple. This is how.... The ribbon is not that huge, it'll only cover like a small area on yo dress/shirt/blouse/top/jacket-whatever, wherever. Its red, one color, so it wont spoil yo ensemble. As part of your apparel, its guaranteed to raise some eyebrows and questions. And this is where your sensitization comes in. U tell them about its meaning and how its gonna work.
This is how.
Its gonna have a positive impact on the person wearing it and the person that sees u wearing it. This obviously is gonna raise a question or two from the seer. From this question, the person that asks is gonna learn the basic info that u're gonna give....which is that this ribbon is supposed to b a symbol of your fight against HIV/AIDS. Simple as that. The seer will definately love the whole idea and ask for a ribbon. This is when u refer them to TASO and African village. They have some bracelets and bangles.
At this point, u're free to tell them more about what u think of the ribbon vis a vis your anti HIV/AIDS campaign. Anything to juice up the whole thing. Make it pretty with the truth.
I hope I've helped.
We'll have some ribbons for u guys soon,,,in about a weeks' time. So feel free to ask for one. We're still tryna devise ways and means to get them to u. One of us will have some at the BHH next week.
Be there.
And also, this blog is open to contributors(mainly anti- AIDS contributions). So anyone will be welcome to post up here. Once we're done with the blog layout and some other stuff.
So, hold your fire. By Tuesday next week, u could be a contributor.
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8 comments:
Mwe. What say y'all just make it "BLOGGERS AGAINST AIDS"?
Okay, was rushing before, I can now comment properly... I saw the lovely banner on Cheri's blog but why should it just be Ugandan bloggers against AIDS? I'm sure there are lovely contributors out there from countries just as adversely affected by AIDS as Uganda is (if not worse affected). Just in case someone had done it already, I Googled and Yahoo Searched after reading Cheri's post, and nothing came up for Bloggers Against AIDS. I don't know, perhaps you have a specific reason for making it just Ugandan, but then it kinda discourages someone who would want to join but is not Ugandan. They would feel left out. I am partially Ugandan but I would be uneasy just feeling free and doing things as a Ugandan blogger against AIDS, not just because it clearly says UGANDAN (and my birth cert says Kenyan, and my very good friend's who saw this says Thailand, which is another country affected by AIDS), but also because Kenya is badly affected by AIDS as well - feel me? I can't leave my child hungry in my house and go to feed the neighbour's child.
God bless! This is a lovely effort.
Eh! English is hard, if anyone sees this, please tell me I got my point across!
Well,that's a valid argument.I'm sure it will soon be sorted out.
Pea.....good point!
"BLOGGERS AGAINST AIDS"
Oh, and u made sense Pea. Got the point across!
To be certain of that, I did a quick google-around too... so new theme it is then everybody! Be up in a couple-a days with a new link!
@pea you sure did a brilliant job of putting your point across.
cherie ama join your battle field be right there at the frontline with my blogger gun yeap serg to the frontline but cherie i know you want me to be a private naye mbiganye.noble cause truly noble
Well written article.
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