This past semester in my Economic Development class, students formed groups to raise awareness and encourage action against many issues of injustice, oppression, and poverty around the world. One of the groups invested with the task of sharing about the unequal access to health care, education, or supplies around the world, built a mountain of condoms outside of the Point Loma Nazarene Chapel. While a little, edgy for a conservative Christian University, it was effective in not only gaining attention towards their cause (the condoms were representative of the AIDS epidemic and lack of access to HIV prevention/education), but to raising controversy over freedom-of-thought, speech, and ideas on a campus often immersed in conservative thought and controls. 
(This condom mountain had 160,000 High-Quality Pante condoms)
Well done guys. But I couldn’t help but laugh at their “condom mountain” that contained 50 or 60 condoms when I saw this.
(This condom mountain had 160,000 High-Quality Pante condoms)We share our office with a Dominican Non-Profit called CEPROSH, a group dedicated to HIV awareness, prevention, and treatment of people infected with HIV/AIDS (I say treatment meaning counseling, medical attention, and administering Anti-Retroviral medication). Funded mainly off of USAID, Clinton Foundation, and other U.S based aid, it has been a pretty cool experience to see firsthand the impact and effects of such funding. Thousands are given free medical access, the ARV’s which allow them to continue living a normal life for many more years (rather than quickly spiraling to AIDS and an immanent death), and a hope for raising their children who would otherwise be left orphaned if this disease were left un-combated to take it’s toll. Esperanza has a close to tie to CEPROSH here in Puerto Plata and we often share clients through our Esperanza y Vida program, which is dedicated to providing HIV medical attention along with a loan and business training, that enables them to continue living their life and providing an income for their family..... to be added to.
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