Today was absolutely great. I don't think I have ever given out so many condoms or information in such a short period of time...

Today was the Health Fair and Walk Through in St. Ann'y Bay. It was so cool.... at first i was just at the clinic finishing up posters and stuff for the display, but by a little before midday we were on the streets; giving people info about AIDS and HIV, handing out booklets and flyers, and distributing condoms.

I worked with one other adult and 3 younger ones (early teens) between the 5 of us, we gave out 200 books about HIV/AIDS,100 books about condoms, and 100 flyers about getting HIV testing. between the 2 of us as ''adults". we gave out 8 Packages of condoms.. each package contains about 140 boxes of condoms, and each box contains 3 condoms.. you do the math :)

it was absolutely thrilling. it drove home a point that i keep getting reminded of everytime we go to give out information: people are hungry for information. thhey won't go the the clinic for it, or ask someone, but if you take it to them, they will gladly take it, and ask all their questions and stuff like that. thats the approach we have to take... we have to be proactive. we cant sit around waiting for people to come and ask us what they should do; we have to tell them, and we have to do it gladly. we have to show them that there is a way for stuff to be done, and things aren't always as they seem.

lets make it our personal decision to try to give out info to at least 1 person per day. when you do it, you can give them a booklet or something, but whatever you do, make it a pass it on. tell them that just as you told them, they should tell someone else, and they should tell the person they told to tell someone else etc etc. that way, we can start making an even bigger impact on the world and on how people view HIV/AIDS and PLWHA.