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World Vision Experience: AIDS — Step into Africa
Location: Lodi, California
Virtual Africa exhibit brings the horrors of AIDS home through a free, interactive exhibit open to the public that takes its visitors on a journey into AIDS-affected communities in Africa, as seen through the eyes of four children.
Who: First Baptist Church of Lodi is hosting the "World Vision Experience: AIDS" exhibit, which is slated to visit 80 cities during its national tour in 2007 and 2008. The public is invited to go through the free, multimedia, interactive exhibit and become one of the over 35,000 people who have been through the exhibit. Well over 300,000 people are expected to visit the exhibit during the 2007/2008 tour.
What: The "World Vision Experience: AIDS" exhibit is a unique, multi-media, interactive exhibit that allows Americans to step into the lives of actual children affected by HIV and AIDS in the hardest-hit region of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa, where about 25 million people are infected with HIV (2/3 of the world's total). Visitors walk through a replica of an African village and experience the effects of the pandemic in a real way as they listen to a personal audio track relating the story of one of four children — Kombo, Babirye, Emmanuel, and Mathabo.
Where: First Baptist Church of Lodi
267 N. Mills Avenue,
Lodi, CA 95242
When: The free exhibit will be open to the public from
Thursday, February 28, 2008 thru Monday, March 3, 2008.
Hours of operation are as follows:
Thursday 9:00 a.m. — 8:30 p.m.
Friday 9:00 a.m. — 8:00 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday 9:00 a.m. — 9:00 p.m.
Monday 8:00 a.m. — 7:00 p.m.
Background
The World Vision Experience was launched in fall 2005. In the first year, nearly 20,000 people in 10 North American cities visited the Experience. The prototype Experience was featured at the 2006 Global AIDS Conference in Toronto and displayed in New York's Grand Central terminal in the summer; both the Experience and the AIDS Exhibit were on display at Urbana, InterVarsity's student missions convention. World Vision has presented the exhibit in cities across North America (including Seattle, New York and Toronto) to inspire greater public commitment to inspire greater public commitment to assist in fighting the AIDS pandemic...
World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. World Vision serves the world's poor regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
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For Details Contact:
Tina Weinheimer, (708) 366-1084
Candice Hill Buchbinder, (708) 445-9839
Gardi Wilks, (708) 366-8389
Jennifer Settle, World Vision, (253) 815-2327
