AIMF is a French network of city associations working towards the development of local communities. It ensures better municipality management, favours experience exchanges, and finances concrete projects that mobilize the AIMF network. AIMF supports FXB’s work and raises awareness among its members on the AIDS orphans crisis on May 7th.
www.aimf.asso.fr
ELCS is a French network of elected officials that mobilize and lobby for a global action against AIDS and discrimination.
www.elcs.com
French Senate: For the fourth consecutive year, World Aids Orphan Day (WAOD) is placed under the “haut patronnage” of Mr Christian Poncelet, President of the French Senate. To launch the 7th annual WAOD, a press conference was held in the Boffrand’s salons.
www.senat.fr
Global Action for Children: Global Action for Children is a nonpartisan, results-oriented coalition dedicated to advocating for orphans and other vulnerable children in the developing world. Global Action for Children’s mission is to increase the level of funding by the governments of the wealthy countries for orphans and other vulnerable children in some of the poorest countries of the world. www.globalactionforchildren.or
Global AIDS Alliance (GAA): The mission of the Global AIDS Alliance (GAA) is to halt the global AIDS crisis and mitigate its impact on poor countries hardest hit by the pandemic. Founded in 2001, GAA combines media outreach and public education with targeted coalition-building and grassroots mobilization. We raise awareness and inspire activism, and we seek to address the epidemic's fundamental links to social justice issues such as poverty and gender inequity. www.globalaidsalliance.org
The Global Health Council: The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. The Council’s diverse membership is comprised of health-care professionals and organizations that include NGOs, foundations, corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that work to ensure global health for all. www.globalhealth.org
Hoops of Hope: Hoops of Hope is a national three-throw shoot a thon to raise funds to provide care for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. www.hoopsofhope.org/
The International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE) is a foundation under Swiss private law with an international scope. Its objectives are to disseminate information on children's rights, train those responsible for enforcing these rights and assure the establishment of a culture and dedication for the "Rights of the Child". IDE collaborates with FXB by organizing seminars dealing with children orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS in developing this issue with its students and in disseminating information via its website www.childsrights.org.
Kiehls: Kiehls, the New-York based Skin and Hair Care Company, supports the NGO François-Xavier Bagnoud and World AIDS Orphans Day for the fourth consecutive year. This year on May 7, Kiehls stores in France will sponsor “Shop for a Cause” for AIDS orphans. www.kiehls.com
Lifelong AIDS Alliance: Lifelong AIDS Alliance is the largest AIDS service organization in the Northwest. Our mission is to prevent the spread of HIV and to provide practical support services and advocating for those whose lives are affected by HIV and AIDS. Our work within the community is guided by four basic tenets: caring for people, preventing new infections, advocating for change, and creating community. www.lifelongaidsalliance.org
Publicis Conseil work now since two years with FXB. The communication and advertising agency try to give his contribution to the fight against all forms of exclusion. That is why Publicis Conseil decided to support FXB and to create a visual illustrating the extreme poverty and vulnerability of AIDS orphans.
The World Organization of the Scout Movement contributes to the education of young people, through a value system based on the Scout Promise and Law to help build a better world where people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in society. For the second year, the World Organization of the Scout Movement has supported the World AIDS Orphan's Day initiative and shared the information with its members and sensitised them on the distress of vulnerable children and on the consequences of their social and economic exclusion. www.scout.org
Sidaction is a French NGO which provides financial and technical support to more than 100 projects run by AIDS service organisations in developing countries. Most of Sidaction’s partner community-based organisations are involved at grassroots level in care and support to children orphaned or made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS. In Burundi, for instance, Sidaction and The City of Paris provides material, social, psychological and medical support to more than 1000 AIDS orphans through 3 local organisations (ANSS, SWAA, APECOS). www.sidaction.org
Student Global AIDS Campaign: The Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC) is a national student and youth movement with chapters at high schools, colleges, and universities across the United States committed to bringing an end to HIV and AIDS in the U.S. and around the world through education, informed advocacy, media work, and direct action. www.fightglobalaids.org
Trousellier Paris: Trousellier Paris is the first high quality toy fabricant-designer who brings tenderness, imagination, poetry, and softness to the children’s universe. Trousellier has produced a new toy, the “Purple Rabbit,” specifically for WAOD. www.trousellier.fr
