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Message from the new Wake Up Pune coordinators:

MOTIVATED!
Welcome to Wake Up Pune 2010. Wake Up Pune was born in 2006 with the stated purpose of spreading awareness about HIV and AIDS in Pune. This year we are focusing our efforts on expanding the original goals in a big way. Entirely volunteer-driven from its inception, Wake Up Pune has many committed, passionate, energetic  volunteers very eager to get more involved in doing whatever they can to spread the 'Be HIV Positive' message. In other words, our goal to 'build an army of volunteers to inspire civil society to challenge the misconceptions, ignorance, fear and stigma surrounding HIV' is shifting into high gear.  For WUP to grow and more effectively and efficiently utilize our volunteers’ talents and energy, WUP needs to..

EVOLVE!
At the most recent HIV Bootcamp (11 January 2010), it became apparent that most of the attendees were extremely motivated to get more involved in WUP immediately. During the HIV Bootcamp de-briefing sessions led by Ryan Turner, core WUP volunteers (coordinator Roshni Mehta, Kate Evans, Dan Wilson, Emeline Rougeaux,  and Azzi Momen) discussed ways to most effectively mobilize all of the newly motivated volunteers. It was proposed that volunteers run 'WUP Satellites'. Volunteers would set up their own committees in their schools, companies or colleges and coordinate and execute their own HIV Bootcamps, Street Plays, Awareness events, and fundraising events. The idea is that by empowering highly motivated volunteers to form their own 'WUP Satellites', WUP could grow exponentially and the accomplishment of WUP goals realized on much larger scale.

GOOD START TO THE YEAR
At the WUP Partners meeting on Wednesday 20 January 2010, we experienced new energy, support and commitment from our partners and supporters. Not only was the meeting well attended (special thanks to our host NMP+), commitments were made to contact and re-energize past partners and supporters and potential new ones as well. New and exciting collaborative events are in the works for 2010 - stay tuned for further details...

IN CONCLUSION
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to Roshni Mehta and Kate Evans for the incredible work they have done in the last 6 months to bring WUP to where it is today.  We are working hard and putting lots of effort into getting creative looking for ways to increase our efficiency and expand our capacity to make Puneites WAKE UP to the issues of HIV and AIDS facing us. We will not stop until there are zero new cases of HIV in Pune. And when that happens, we can start working on Wake Up Asia, Wake Up Africa, Wake Up Europe, and Wake Up North and South America.  Imagine our planet free of silence, ignorance, fear, stigma, and discrimination on the issues of HIV and AIDS!