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EMU students (l. to r.) Nathan Kauffman, Ingrid Vendrely, Sarah Kalichman and Grace Schrock-Hurst display the t-shirts that students wore as part of AIDS\/HIV Awareness Week on campus. Photo by Aubrey Bauman <\/div>\n<\/p>\n

EMU students devoted a week recently to raise campus awareness and to act on HIV\/AIDS issue. <\/p>\n

One of the coordinators, second-year culture, religion and mission major Grace Schrock-Hurst, responded to an e-mail invitation in August from World Vision International, a Christian relief and development organization, "inviting the college campus to take part in the national ‘Do You See Orange?’ campaign." <\/p>\n

Schrock-Hurst, in cooperation with the Student Mission Interest Group (SMIG) on campus, decided to adopt the week of Sept. 24-28 to focus on AIDS, as did 35 other colleges across the United States. <\/p>\n

The idea was an outgrowth of a recent Young People’s Christian Association (YPCA)<\/a> event on campus. YPCA is sponsored by EMU’s campus ministries<\/a> department.<\/p>\n

Sobering Statistics<\/h2>\n

The students ordered orange t-shirts through World Vision to represent the statistic that 1 in 20 children in Sub-Saharan Africa are orphaned as the result of AIDS. Fifty students wore the shirts all week. <\/p>\n

"We hoped the shirts would generate good questions, start conversations and raise awareness about the gravity of the AIDS situation in our world," Schrock-Hurst said.<\/p>\n

Other Activities<\/h2>\n

Events that continued through early October included displays in buildings around campus, a prayer vigil space in the Campus Center, a movie and discussion night in Common Grounds coffee house<\/a>, containers set up to collect spare change, Mennonite Central Committee AIDS care kit collection areas and a writing campaign to send letters and pray for AIDS orphans in New Life Children’s Home in Swaziland where the spare change is being sent. <\/p>\n

The effort raised nearly $882.89 in the spare change campaign, $775 in checks to date for MCC AIDS care kits, 17 grocery bags stuffed with items for the care kits and 81 letters written to children in Swaziland. <\/p>\n

"AIDS is killing 8,000 people a day and orphaning 6,000 children a day," Schrock-Hurst said. "We wanted to put a face to these statistics and get people thinking, talking, and dreaming about what we as a college campus and the broader church should be doing to address this issue and how we should respond as followers of Jesus."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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