Raising Awareness of our Intervention
1. My group members and I will set up a meeting with the board members at both of the Ethiopian Orthodox Churches in Los Angeles and tell them about the significant impact they can have if they do workshops, raise awareness, and talk about prevention of HIV/AIDS in their churches. We will inform them about this low budget conference that we are planning and hope they will be willing to participate. [My dad is a board member of the church and thinks this is a great idea]
2. My friends and I will pass out fliers with my website address (http://orthodoxchurchandhiv.weebly.com/) to inform them about this conference and motivate them that we MUST TAKE ACTION NOW.
3. Go to restaurants in Little Ethiopia and see which places will donate food, drinks, and dessert. [Because we will be working with these churches, a non-profit, we will give these restaurants the church's tax ID so that they will receive tax breaks from their donations]
4. The first Sunday in July, my friends and I will pass out a questionnaire after church (ensuring everyone that these surveys will be anonymous and that this will be used to help plan our conference; the questions will cover HIV prevalence, transmission modes, prevention activities, etc.
5. We will address the concerns and elements from the questionnaire at the conference.