Santulan Inauguration of Community Welfare Center

Our partner Santulan inaugurated their first Community Welfare Centre on Thursday 3rd November from 5:00-7:00pm at Gokhale Nagar.  The center aims to help addicts and their family members integrate in to the main stream of society. The center will be …

Finding Balance

Shruti Nambiar
Posted: Mon Oct 31 2011, 00:59 hrs

Santulan de-addiction centre has been running a successful dabba service operated by recovering addicts. It will soon open a free clinic to provide them counselling and medication

Javed Pathan was a …

Join the Fight (17th Nov – 11th Dec)

In the run up to World AIDS day on the 1st December, Wake Up Pune are organising 2 weeks of awareness activites across the city. We’ll be conducting bootcamps, street plays, fundraising events at malls and restaurants, a flash mob, …

HIV Bootcamp for new volunteers

An HIV bootcamp presentation for new volunteers was held last Sunday, November 6th on Tadiwala Road.  The audience was a mix of about 30 new local and international volunteers at Deep Griha and several international volunteers associated with other organizations …

Fundraising and Awareness Event at Malaka Spice

On Thursday 10th November, group of twelve volunteers met at Malaka Spice in Koregon Park for an awareness event.  We arrived at about 7 PM and set up a table at the front of the restaurant with information leaflets, awareness …

Bootcamp at Vishrantwadi Women’s Empowerment Project

On Friday 14th October, Wake Up Pune volunteers ran an HIV bootcamp with 18 young women at Vishrantwadi Women’s Empowerment Project. The bootcamp covered HIV biology, transmission, prevention, statistics and stigma.

The Women’s Empowerment Project works in 10 slum areas …

Documentary Film Competition: DEADLINES EXTENDED

Deep Griha’s DISHA and Wake up Pune projects had a HIV/AIDS documentary film competition. For the competition, small groups of people created a documentary film 10-20 minutes in length, which aims to raise awareness and reduce stigma and discrimination …

Interesting Article about the History of HIV/AIDS

Chimp to Man to History Books: The Path of AIDS

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: October 17, 2011

Our story begins sometime close to 1921, somewhere between the Sanaga River in Cameroon and the Congo River in the former …

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