Azafady and Ailie Judd in the Vodafone World of Difference Final – Votes needed!
Posted on 21 July 2010
At what’s such a difficult time for Madagascar, Azafady is in with a good chance of drawing wide public attention to the situation there through Vodafone – but we need your help! Azafady’s HIV specialist Ailie Judd has been selected from some 2500 applicants to go through to the final voting stage of the Vodafone World of Difference competition: if she’s successful, this will finance the implementation of her essential project working with Azafady on methods of preventing HIV in pregnant and married women in Fort Dauphin. In addition The Vodafone World of Difference campaign has a staggering amount of publicity and media clout behind it, which, if focused on Madagascar, will be of great benefit.
But whether this project goes ahead actually hangs in the balance, depending entirely on a public vote on facebook. So Azafady needs you to visit the facebook site and vote for Ailie Judd, and spread the word - invite all your friends, family, and mere acquaintances to vote! Every vote you can bring us counts.
All you need to do is go to: http://www.facebook.com/worldofdifference?v=app_10531514314&ref=ts , sign in to facebook, click on ‘vote now’, allow the polls application, and VOTE FOR AILIE JUDD! And please forward this email on and send a message to all your friends on facebook.
If Ailie, with your help, is successful in this public vote, there’ll be huge benefits to the communities Azafady works with in Fort Dauphin. With over 40% of women already having an STI, and with HIV on the increase at double the national average, this project, if funded, will help to prevent what could otherwise soon be an epidemic. Ailie’s project will specifically target the group Azafady have found hardest to reach with our HIV/AIDS awareness programme – pregnant and married women.
This is a target group which other bodies working in other areas have similarly identified as difficult to reach. Ailie will set up the first ever antenatal group and train women to become leaders in their community to provide information and support about sexual health care and services. Her project will also work towards establishing a taskforce of health care providers and other stakeholders in the town, to coordinate service delivery and enable lessons around best practice to be shared and disseminated. This building of institutional capacity at community level is especially important given the extremely limited capacity and activity of any coordinating body at government level.
Success in this public vote would make a huge difference to our ability to continue providing the range of interventions we currently do with communities in Anosy is huge – but as a relatively small NGO, we are urgently in need of all the support we can get. Previous recipient organisations have experienced wide-ranging benefits of an increased focus on its work through the attention the competition brings, and seen a generalised mobilisation of the public to other issues and initiatives within the host country – something Madagascar could so badly do with.
So please help Azafady to win this public vote and make a world of difference for south east Madagascar – vote for AILIE JUDD here: http://www.facebook.com/worldofdifference?v=app_10531514314&ref=ts and please pass it on; we are relying on you – friends of Azafady – to pass the word around and mobilise votes for Madagascar!
Be quick! We have less than 7 days - voting closes at midday on Wednesday 28th July.
What you can do:
- Vote yourself on facebook
- Publish the poll on your facebook with a message to vote for Ailie Judd
- Send an email to your contact list asking them to vote for us too
- Post the link on your facebook/twitter and encourage everyone to vote for AILIE JUDD!
1 Response to Azafady and Ailie Judd in the Vodafone World of Difference Final – Votes needed!
Go on Ailie!!!