Theatre Cares Vancouver
Raising funds for HIV/AIDS relief
since 1991

Theatre Cares Vancouver is a volunteer-based organization that unites the generous spirit of Vancouver’s performing arts community with its supporters to raise funds and awareness for HIV/AIDS relief and other worthy causes.

THEATRE CARES WEEK - FEBRUARY 17-23
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
EMAIL volunteer@theatrecares.com

The funds raised by Theatre Cares Vancouver each year are donated to registered charities that support HIV/AIDS patients, and also to other local charities. Recognizing that HIV/AIDS is not the only challenge faced in our community, each year the committee chooses a “guest charity” to support which is not necessarily an AIDS charity.

In 2008, Theatre Cares Vancouver is raising funds in support of AIDS Vancouver, BC Persons With AIDS, and the Actors’ Fund of Canada, and is helping to fight the AIDS pandemic in South Africa through a donation to the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

Revenue comes from t-shirt and other merchandise sales, admission to our annual FUNDRAISING GALA, sales at our highly-anticipated SILENT AUCTION, and the funds donated at theatres each night by generous audiences during Theatre Cares Week.

Because our committee works on a volunteer basis, we are able to donate 90% of the funds we raise to the charities we support.

There is no cure for HIV/AIDS.

In sub-Saharan Africa today, 22.5 million people are living with HIV/ AIDS, 61% of whom are women and girls, and more than 2 million of whom die each year. Eight hundred to 1000 people die from AIDS each day in South Africa alone.*

Approximately 58,000 Canadians are currently living with HIV/AIDS, and researchers estimate that an additional 17,000 are unaware they are infected.**

New infections are on the rise. It is estimated that over 4,000 Canadians are infected with HIV every year.**

These statistics reflect only what is known about the people who have chosen to be tested.

The Canadian AIDS Society has reported that a large number of youth believe there is not only a cure for HIV/AIDS, but also a vaccine available to prevent HIV infection. There isn’t.

* data from the Stephen Lewis Foundation
** AIDS Committee of Toronto