Pizza for HIV/AIDS Awareness
On Thursday the ONE Twin Cities group participated in Dining Out for Life and held a cereal drive for a local non-profit, Open Arm of Minnesota. Dining out for life is an annual event where restaurants all over the country agree to donate a portion of their proceeds that day to local AIDS organizations. In the Twin Cities, over 120 restaurants agreed to participate and donate to The Aliveness Project, a local nonprofit that provides meals, a food shelf and other services for individuals living with HIV/AIDS and their families.
Open Arms of Minnesota delivers meals to people living with illness around the community; they currently serve individuals living with HIV/AIDS, breast cancer and MS. We collected cereal to deliver to them as it fit the theme of helping those living with disease.
ONE Twin Cities hosted people at Pizza Luce, a local restaurant that agreed to donate 35% of their proceeds to the Aliveness Project. People came and donated cereal, with over half being new faces that were interested in learning more about ONE and excited about contributing to a good cause in more than one way. Overall people had a great time, eating really good pizza for a good cause.
-Reena Drake, Twin Cities ONE Member
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