Jasper-2/8/09-AID for AIDs

AID for AIDS is a nonprofit organization that helps people in other countries who are coping with AIDS  and do not have access to medical help.  On Friday I visited AID for AIDS with Lenny, Adam, Alma, Olivia, and Katharine, and Sarah it was very interesting. We took the subway up to Wall Street and walked to the building. To get in we all got student ID’s for security purposes. When we got there we were given a tour of the facility, we saw a room filled with Medicine to help treat HIV and AIDS. We saw a mailroom where medicine is sent from around the world. When people are on prescription drugs often their prescriptions change and the medicine is thrown out, but at AID for AIDS they take that medicine that people do not need anymore and they send it to people in other countries who do not have access to proper medical care. They also have a room filled with wheel chairs, walkers, and crutches that were going to be sent to Haiti. There were many offices in the facility and each ones had its own unique purpose. After the tour, Olivia, Adam and I were put to work folding posters and putting them together with pamphlets to be sent to other charities that help them. We had a lot of fun helping AID for AIDS and I am really looking forward to our next visit there because it felt really good to help.