Dear Summer
This May, I will be joining 20,000 caring people in Central Park for AIDS Walk New York. I have set an ambitious fundraising goal and need your help to achieve it! We have come a long way since the beginning, but we still see more than 30,000 new infections every year nati

Although we have made great strides in fighting HIV/AIDS, we do not yet have a cure, new infection rates are still too high at 30,000 each year nationwide, and too many people living with HIV don’t have access to basic resources they need to survive and stay healthy.

That’s where we come in. Will you please sponsor me for AIDS Walk New York?

The funds we raise benefit GMHC, Hyacinth AIDS Foundation and dozens of other tri-state area AIDS service organizations. These groups serve as a lifeline to thousands of people living with the disease in need of medical care, food, counseling, housing assistance, and much more. AIDS Walk New York funding also powers prevention programs as well as critical efforts to demand a cure.

Here are more statistics that show HIV/AIDS is still a threat here in the U.S.:

• One in eight of those infected with HIV is unaware of their infection.
• Nationally, about one in four new HIV infections are among youth, ages 13-24.
• According to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if current HIV diagnosis rates persist, about half of all gay black men and a quarter of gay Latino men in the U.S. will be infected with HIV in their lifetime.

It will take all of us working together to end the epidemic. That is why I am calling on you and many others to help.

To securely donate online, click on the link to my personal donation page here: https://ny.aidswalk.net/LesterGovia. Checks for any amount can be made out to “AWNY” with my name in the memo and sent to: AIDS Walk New York, P.O. Box 7607, New York, NY 10116. Thank you for supporting me in this critically important effort.

Sincerely,

Lester

Please visit my personal fundraising page: https://ny.aidswalk.net/LesterGovia