A colossal food drive is being organized Dec.1 by AIDS Project Los Angeles for this year's World AIDS Day. The project aims to ensure that no one goes hungry and also improve the health and quality of life of those infected with HIV. The food will be provided to people who visit APLA's North Necessities of Life Program (NOLP). This program is the country's largest web of food banks devoted to HIV/AIDS-infected people, reports frontiersLa.com.
"Since its creation in 1986, NOLP has been intended as a supplementary program. That is, we try to supplement what the client can buy on his or her own with an array of nutritious and critical products. But more recently, and sadly, we have often become the only source of food for so many we serve," explains Tonya Hendricks, program manager of NOLP. Frontiers Media and NBC4 are sponsors for the project.
ALPA provides four bags of groceries every week to people who earn less than $10,000 per year. NOLP offers dairy products, frozen meats, vegetables and many other basic requirements for poverty-ridden people. They have nine pantries spread countrywide and supply about 3,000 bags of groceries weekly.
This food drive is being done to invest in the lives of all HIV-infected people. This Dec.1, even you can do your bit; visit APLA website for more details.
World AIDS Day is observed every year on Dec.1 by all U.N. member states. The day is dedicated to raise awareness of the deadly disease. The first World Aids Day was observed in 1988. According to the AIDS website, the pandemic has killed more than 25 million people.
