Make a list of your options. It still is early in the game to come up with some kind of strategy and to hit your BEST friends and family members for money. Ask them to donate money to AIDS Walk rather than spend money on gifts for you over the holiday season. In high school a group of friends collected about $10 bucks from everyone and we gave it to a less fortunate person on the street. What they do with it is their decision, but we felt good about helping them. I am a “teach them to fist” philosopher but giving them the fish is also a good deed.
Regardless, of whom you give it to, a donation of $10 could help a local organization with stipends for participants, clients and/or youth. This can also go towards a Metro Card for individuals that otherwise would not be able to travel to the agency to access the services. Remember a lot of people aren’t motivated enough by being proactive and taking responsibility in their health, and it is not their fault for thinking this way it is a systemic way of things. I sometimes don’t visit the doctor until I am sick myself. Since we have a ways to go until AIDS Walk, perhaps you can set up a coin jar for laundry and AIDS Walk. Put all those coins you get from $n.50 drinks into them and you’ll be surprised at what you’ll end up with in May.
