Dear Mountain Movement Team,

We are currently freezing in the Great White North after an adventurous month-long hiking/camping/backpacking tour of Caribbean!

After spending the winter out in Eastern Canada, the next step for us is a move to the Rockies, and a more permanent one, for both personal and professional reasons. The Mountain Movement has followed us wherever we go, and it will inevitably follow us back to the mountains as well.

At this point in our lives, we are expecting to have to commit to our professional lives to a greater extent. For this reason, we will continue to simplify The Mountain Movement campaign to make it a more manageable project. Our plan is to focus on a single event this summer, a Banff/Jasper Servers Against AIDS Day. We will call on the help of our partners at HIV West Yellowhead in Jasper and see if we can coordinate this event together. The event would offer funding to both the Stephen Lewis Foundation and regional AIDS services.

As usual, we would like the primary focus of the campaign to be on awareness. The website has been an asset in disseminating information with regards to news about issues with AIDS in Africa and around the world, events and rallies going on at the national level, the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign, and HIV/AIDS in Canada. We want ‘The Mountain Movement’ to be a state of mind above all – a way of thinking beyond our everyday existence, and in turn using our ‘everydayness’ to raise awareness and funds for a great cause.

This month, all we ask you to do is read this notice put out by the SLF with regards to extra funding in Kenya. Many of the 32 grassroots groups the SLF supports in that country have been affected by the violent outbreaks following the elections. http://www.stephenlewisfoundation.org/kenya_update.htm

Thank you for your ongoing support – we mean that in the most genuine way.

Meghan and Paul