standing in solidarity with
african grandmothers
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Thank you for supporting our Annual Shakers and Makers Market!
Thank you to all our supporters who attended and shopped at our Shakers and Makers Market on Saturday, October 18. Because of your commitment and generosity, we raised over $23,000 to send to Grandmothers in sub-Saharan Africa who are raising their grandchildren due to the AIDS epidemic. Your belief in our work and willingness to spend your hard earned money at our sale means SO much to local grandmothers and grandothers as well as our sisters in Africa. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
WHAT WE DO
Build awareness
The GANG is committed to raise awareness and financially support African grandmothers, their orphaned grandchildren and their communities as they evolve as a result of HIV & AIDS.
Raise funds
The money we raise goes directly to grassroots organizations providing simple necessities: school fees, food, clothing, grief counselling. Since 2006 the GANG has raised close to one million dollars, funds that support grandmothers and communities in sub-Saharan Africa. From the bottom of our hearts, we thank you very much for your support!
Advocate
- to honour the wisdom and experience of the grandmothers of Africa and Canada.
- for the dignity of others in our efforts to work towards social justice.
Stand in solidarity
The struggle in Africa against AIDS has wiped out a generation of parents, leaving grandmothers in Africa to raise their grandchildren-and often the grandchildren of others-on their own. We stand in solidarity with them, and we will not rest until they can rest.
WHO WE ARE
Building awareness, raising funds
The Grandmothers of Alberta for a New Generation (a.k.a. “The GANG”) began in 2006. We are one of the more than 200 groups of grandmothers and grand-others Canada-wide supporting the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign.
The GANG is committed to raise awareness and financially support African grandmothers, their orphaned grandchildren and their communities as they evolve as a result of HIV and AIDS.
Our goals are:
- to raise awareness about African grandmothers, their strengths and their needs.
- to stand in solidarity with them.
- to mobilize support for them.
- to advocate on their behalf.
We are committed to:
- respecting the culture, values and life experiences of African people.
- thinking globally and acting locally.
- promoting social justice through solidarity and consultation.
- protecting human dignity for those we work with.
- respecting and promoting the campaign guidelines of the Stephen Lewis Foundation
- advocating so that we are honouring the wisdom and experience of the grandmothers of Africa and Canada.
- advocating for the dignity of others in our efforts to work towards social justice.
Meet our Partners and Supports!
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They make our Work Possible!
The Stephen Lewis Foundation
The Stephen Lewis Foundation launched the Grandmothers to Grandmothers
Campaign in March 2006, in response to the emerging crisis faced by African grandmothers as they struggled to care for millions of children orphaned by AIDS. What began with only a few groups of committed Canadian grandmothers has since evolved into a dynamic and responsive movement, made up of grandmothers and grandothers working to mobilize support in Canada, Australia, the UK, and the
US in solidarity with African grandmothers and the children within their care. A decade later, the Campaign supports African community-based organizations that have developed programmes—with and for grandmothers—to transform lives and restore hope to their communities. In thirteen years, more than $33 million has been raised in support of African grandmothers. African grandmothers are changing the course of the pandemic in their communities and beyond. And the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign will be with them every step of the way.