News

• International AIDS Candlelight Memorial
  May 21st, 2006 is International AIDS Candlelight Memorial
  Communities around the world will be united in "remembering the cause, renewing our commitment" through the event sponsored by the Global Health Council (GHC). For more information go to www.candlelightmemorial.org.
  
  
• Global Health Council
  The Annual Conference of the GHC will be held in Washington, DC May 30- June 2, 2006. For more information visit www.globalhealth.org.
  
  
• The International AIDS Conference
  The XVI International AIDS Conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, August 13-16, 2006. The focus will be on the continued urgency on the need for effective HIV prevention. Firelight is sponsoring some of our select grantee-partners to participate in the conference with the goal of focusing more attention towards the effects of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children.

• World AIDS Day
  World AIDS Day is observed on December 1. "Stop AIDS; Keep the Promise" was the slogan of the World AIDS Campaign in 2005 which focused on promoting public awareness and social involvement to ensure the lofty goals of eliminating AIDS are able to be accomplished.
  

History

• Firelight's President and Founder speaks at Global AIDS Convening
  Kerry Olson, President and Founder of the Firelight Foundation, presented the opening speech at the West coast premier screening of Rory Kennedy's documentary film, PANDEMIC: Facing AIDS. The event was sponsored by the Global Philanthropy Forum, and preceded a day-long gathering of foundation leaders, individual donors, NGOs, and significant HIV/AIDS scholars who met to discuss opportunities for international philanthropy geared to changing the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
  
  
• African AIDS, and Helping Orphans Remember
  To access an April 2, 2003, New York Times article about the Memory Book Project in Uganda, click on the above link.
  
  

• Children Affected by AIDS in Zambia
  For an in-depth report on the current situation in Zambia, please see the news segment from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Orphaned by AIDS, May 9, 2002, which features the work of Fountain of Hope, a Firelight grantee-partner.