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- World AIDS Day. We collaborated with our on-site partner
Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, and building neighbors,
Project Open Hand and Shanti, to provide a space for
meditation and remembrance, food and conversation, and
HIB testing and therapeutic massage. KTSF-26 featured
our agency’s efforts with a special on-camera highlight
on Binh Le, Vietnamese HIV Peer Advocate, and one of
our HIV Care Services peer leaders.
- Transgender program offers employment
workshops.
- Pride Scholarship were presented
to thirteen queer A&PI students. Endowed by philanthropist
and community leader Edward Cheng Ming Tang, the Pride
Scholarship alongside social and emotional support and
sexual health programming to queer A&PI youth. Since
2000, fifty-four individuals have received $96,000 in
scholarships.
- Fire & Ice, produced by
SkateOut, benefited A&PI Wellness Center with two
unique and spectacular performances for an audience of
1,200. Fifty figure skaters (including executive director
John Manzon-Santos) and five singers, starring US National
Champion and World Medalist Rudy Galindo, World and US
Medalist Caryn Kadavy, Nine-time French Champion and
World Silver Medalist Surya Bodaly, and Tony Nominee
Ellen Greene generously donated their time and talents.
- For the 6th year in row, we
coordinated a weekend of A&PI LGTB pride. We debuted
our mobile rapid HIV testing services; we produced an
entertainment stage featuring cultural performances by
local and national artists and celebrities; we organized
the A&PI pavilion of local community organizations;
and we marched in the Parade on our Banyan Tree float.
A&PI Wellness Center reaches 4,000 clients annually
and another 20,000 through targeted community outreach.
- A&PI Wellness Center coordinates
the First National A&PI HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on
May 19th with nine concurrent events held across the
U.S. Immediately following Family Trees on National A&PI
HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we commemorated Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month with MIX’05, our annual
event which raised $50,000 and where we presented community
awards to Greg Louganis, Comcast Cable, CBS5/UPN Bay
Area, Horizons Foundation, and Tom Waddell Health Center.
- On May 16th, we convened a
press conference at San Francisco City Hall to promote
the National A&PI HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and to unveil
our local, Chinese-language anti-stigma campaign-One
Mind Opened, One Heart Touched, One Life Changed.
- Miss Hawai’i 2004, Olena
Rubin , a powerful A&PI role model and charismatic
ambassador in the fight against HIV/AIDS, brought the
aloha spirit to A&PI Wellness Center to help promote
The Banyan Tree Project’s First National A&PI
HIV/AIDS Awareness Day to local ethnic and LGTB press.
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