Easy Ways to Support Life Foundation in September!
1. Give Through Aloha United Way 
Employees of companies who participate in Aloha United Way can designate a portion of their paycheck to Life Foundation! Many employers match what their employees give. Check with your human resources office to see if your company participates, and ask for a donor designation form to pick Life Foundation as your charity of choice.
2. Sign Up to Volunteer for the Stars Against AIDS Radiothon!
Please join Life Foundation to help answer phones and collect donations for the 2nd annual Stars Against AIDS Radiothon on Star 101.9 on Friday, October 8. Various 2-hours shifts available between 5am-7pm (5-7am, 7-9am, 9-11am, etc.). Fun, easy way to volunteer and meet new people. Eligible for community service hours. You can volunteer alone OR with your friends, club, school or organization. Free snacks and refreshments! All volunteer shifts take place at Life Foundation. To sign-up for a shift or for more information, contact Kandice at 521-2437, ext. 250 or email kjohns@lifefoundation.org.
3. Give Aloha at Foodland
Participate in Foodland’s Give Aloha program by making a donation to Life Foundation at any Foodland or Sack N Save checkout during the month of September. Foodland and the Western Union Foundation will match a portion of your gift! Be sure to give your cashier Life Foundation’s Give Aloha number: 77233
4. Military or Government Employee?
You can support Life Foundation through the U.S. Government Combined Federal Campaign payroll deduction program.
Contact Melanie Moore at 808-521-2436 x 252 or mmoore@lifefoundation.org for more information on any of these programs.
Your Support Is Needed
Aloha,
 The photo to the right is part of a recent campaign we have launched called “Get Real, Get Tested”. In this letter, I hope to explain why this campaign is necessary, and why your continued support of Life Foundation is needed now more than ever.
Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to Life Foundation today.
I feel like I’ve just walked out of a time machine into an ominous place from the past – or maybe the future. And the landscape both scares me and makes me angry. In the early days of the epidemic, many people learned that they had acquired AIDS when they were admitted to the hospital with a rare form of pneumonia. Within the first fifteen years, three things - the HIV test in 1984, massive amounts of HIV prevention education and the introduction of combination drug therapy in the mid nineties – nearly eliminated the “emergency room AIDS diagnosis.”
Something is now changing. In the past few months, we enrolled six new clients who did not know they were HIV positive until they were admitted into a local hospital for pneumonia and other related causes. None of them had had an HIV test. All of them had progressed to AIDS by the time they entered the hospital.
Of these, one was a mother of small children who died shortly after entering the hospital. Another is a middle age man who may not survive. The others include a man in his early twenties, a transgendered person in her thirties, a forty year old local man and a man who had worked in the healthcare field for many years. He also never made it out of the hospital. All of these people were denied the benefits of lifesaving AIDS medications because they were unaware of their HIV status for years after they were infected.
This is the way it used to be and we can’t allow it to start again. That is why we are launching the “Get Real, Get Tested” program to alert the people of Hawaii that AIDS is still a danger and to encourage everyone to know their status by getting tested.
You can help by making the most generous donation you can to support this effort to stop the next wave in its tracks. Click here to donate now. You can help yourself by getting an HIV test. It’s free. It’s anonymous. It gives you a result in just twenty minutes. It could save your life. To find out how you can be tested for HIV, call Life Foundation at 521-2437AIDS (521-2437). You can come to our office. We can come to you. Don’t assume anything.
Nobody should ever die of shame.
Paul S. Groesbeck
Executive Director
HIV/AIDS News
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