Gathering to H.E.A.L. Fall Breakfast
Helping End AIDS in our Lifetime
Our Wonderful 2024 Gathering to H.E.A.L. Breakfast!
At the Center’s annual Gathering to HEAL (Helping End AIDS in Our Lifetime) Breakfast September 28, we honored Ruth Ann Russell, heard Justin Levy speak, and celebrated the legacy of Ann Fort on what would have been her 100th Birthday. Friends and family posted a $15,050 challenge to replenish the Ann Fort Kenya Fund that is helping to educate almost 40 post-secondary AIDS orphans. The Center is within about $3,600 of achieving the goal!
So many thanks to:
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Silas Kaimneyi - Speaker
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Dr. Bonnie Messer - Master of Ceremonies
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Rev. Jeff Rainwater - Invocation
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Chin Keong Tan - Soloist
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Ruth Ann Russell - Paul & Paula Murphy Award Recipient
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Jodie Senter - Event Chair
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Justin Levy - New Executive Director
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Rev. Dr. Don Messer - Center Founder
Photos from our 2024 Gathering to H.E.A.L. Breakfast
Breakfast photos courtesy of Charles Ledbetter
The Center for Health and Hope will use funds raised at the annual Gathering To HEAL Breakfast to reach out to help Kenya’s impoverished children and adolescents. Many are unable to attend school, because they have lost their parents to HIV or are too poor to pay the fees.
“Children and youth are often overlooked during the global AIDS pandemic,” notes the Center’s Executive Director, Don Messer. “Many lack schooling and are exceedingly vulnerable to infection from HIV. Around the world an adolescent girl acquires HIV every two minutes.”