Countywide : AIDS Volunteers Get a Magic Gift
A grant of more than $46,000 from the Magic Johnson Foundation is helping the Orange County Chapter of the American Red Cross expand its Youth HIV/AIDS Volunteer Educators (Y-HAVE) program.
Under the program, which began in late 1992, high school students are trained in making presentations to their peers on HIV and AIDS awareness. The goal for the 1994-95 academic year is to train two student volunteers at each of 38 Orange County high schools.
Red Cross Youth Director Penny Hughes said the program emphasizes preventing transmission of the disease and compassion for people who are infected with HIV or have AIDS.
“More and more persons in our circle of friends are going go be HIV-positive,” Hughes said, “and it’s really important that we have compassion for these people and not discriminate.”
A kickoff rally for the expanded Y-HAVE program is scheduled for today at the American Red Cross Emergency Operations Center in Santa Ana.
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