AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod

AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod: Serving Cape Cod & the Islands. The AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod covers over 500 square miles and serves over 100,000 people a year through prevention & education, counseling & testing, needle exchange and direct service to individuals and families infected and affected by AIDS. In 1984—three years into the U.S. HIV epidemic—elected officials on Capitol Hill were inactive and silent as the epidemic’s impact grew from affecting gay men in New York and San Francisco to affecting every population and community in the United States. In response to the federal government’s seeming indifference, groups of volunteers organized at the local level to educate their communities on HIV prevention, to care for those living with the virus, and to grieve for those lost to AIDS-defining conditions. The ASGCC has a number of volunteer opportunities available right here in our own backyard and only as far away as Bradford Street! Our day to day needs are lunch delivery drivers, rides to medical appointments, office workers and help with our community dinners. We also have large fundraising events that happen only once a year that we need all different sorts of talents for. For example the Swim for Life, our Annual Action and the Harbor to the Bay bike ride. If you would like to become more involved in our community and make a big difference in your neighbors’ lives please contact me today. Katie Ledoux, Volunteer Coordinator for the ASGCC.

AIDS Support Group of Cape Cod, Civic Organizations, Provincetown