We are collecting 19,000,000 pennies to display on World AIDS Day, December 1.
That's one penny for each person estimated to have died of AIDS in Africa as of the end of 2007.
|Every Day approximately 1,800 children are infected with HIV and every day 8,219 people die of AIDS (UNAIDS) (World Vision)|
Over 6,100,000 pennies
as of August, 2008
We began in 2005 and we will continue to collect pennies through World AIDS Day 2008 from individuals, companies, organizations, churches, groups, and schools.
We will donate the money to existing charitable and religious organizations that are working for AIDS relief in Africa and will continue efforts to make the AIDS crisis real to Americans.
Got Cents? is a program of Change for a Penny, Inc., a non-profit corporation seeking to raise awareness of the pandemic of AIDS in Africa, while at the same time raising funds for existing charitable and religious organizations that are already addressing the issue.