October 24th - 26th 2008
4th Floor University Centre Atrium

Carleton Human Rights Society
CANHAVE Campaign:
Supporting children affected by AIDS in Uganda

About:
CANHAVE stands for Canadians Helping AIDS Victims through Education.

CANHAVE is a local Ottawa volunteer based NGO which is helping support children who’s lives have been drastically affected by the AIDS epidemic in Uganda.

The Human Rights Society is running a fundraising campaign to support CANHAVE’s efforts and to raise awareness about the affects of AIDS on the survivors, the children.

Why?
Children are the most valuable resource for a better future. Today in Africa, children are being orphaned by AIDS at an alarming rate. Over 90% of the 13 million children orphaned by AIDS live in Africa. Carol Bellamy, Executive Director for UNICEF, has said children who have lost parents to the disease "deal with the most trauma, face the most dangerous threats and have the least protection.” AIDS orphans have even less access to their fundamental human rights. Children around the world have a right to education and a better future.

October 3 2006

3380 Mackenzie

The Constant Gardner

About:
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, the region's most dedicated activist, the brilliant and passionate Tessa Quayle, has been found brutally murdered. Tessa's traveling companion, a local doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Sandy Woodrow, Sir Bernard Pellegrin, and the other members of the British High Commission assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to their discretion. They could not be more wrong. This career diplomat's equilibrium has been exploded by the loss of the woman he was deeply devoted to. They were opposites whose attraction sustained a marriage, the memories of which now spur Justin to take decisive action for the first time in his life and diplomatic career. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his wife's infidelities, Justin surprises himself by plunging headlong into a dangerous odyssey. Determined to clear his wife's name and "finish what she started," Justin embarks on a crash course to learn about the pharmaceutical industry, whose crimes Tessa was on the verge of uncovering, and journeys across two continents in search of the truth. His eyes are soon opened to a vast conspiracy at once deadly and commonplace, one that has claimed innocent lives--and is about to put his own at risk.