Volunteers Needed: Help Support People with HIV/AIDS

• by AIDS Council of Northeastern New York

ALBANY, NY (12/06/2007)(readMedia)-- Over 250 volunteers are needed this holiday season to donate a few hours helping to support people with HIV/AIDS. Help Fight AIDS Through Books and Music, an all-volunteer project for the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, is looking for individuals, family members, work, school and community groups and organizations to help wrap gifts and sell books at the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, Crossgates Mall and Colonie Center during the holiday season. Many shifts are available. The holiday project will run from December 1 through December 24.

For more information or to volunteer, call Steve Kozlowski at 518.482.5602, email steve@helpfightaids.com or visit www.helpfightaids.com. Monetary gifts, holiday items, toys, clothing and toiletry items will also be accepted for the Holiday Sponsor Program and go to a deserving person or family impacted by HIV/AIDS. Last year, 116 Capital Region families were adopted by the AIDS Council's Holiday Sponsor Program. Items can be dropped off at the Council's 927 Broadway office in Albany or call 518.434.4686 for pickup.

Help Fight AIDS Through Books and Music helps fight AIDS by raising money to help meet the special needs of people and families impacted by HIV/AIDS and by spreading knowledge about HIV/AIDS. The AIDS Council of Northeastern New York is a not-for-profit human service agency whose mission is to reduce the risk, fear, and incidence of HIV infection, encourage the independence of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS and promote understanding of their needs. In operation for over 23 years, the AIDS Council is the preeminent provider of AIDS services in a fifteen county region in Upstate New York with offices in Albany, Glens Falls, Hudson, Plattsburgh, Schenectady and Troy. For more information about the AIDS Council, please visit www.aidscouncil.org

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