| Actor Richard Gere talks to Eunice Mangwane of Hamburg, South Africa in front of the Keiskamma Altarpiece in a Toronto church August 12, 2006. Mangwane and more than 100 women created the altarpiece in six months at the urging of a doctor who felt that the unique form of communal therapy would help them with their grief at losing loved ones to AIDS. The area around Hamburg is economically destitute and hit hard by AIDS according to the UCLA AIDS Institute. |
| Actor Richard Gere was on hand for the unveiling of a huge altarpiece at St. James' Cathedral which was made by South African women and men who have lost loved ones to AIDS. Eunice Mangwane also known as 'Mama Aids' who is pictured in the altarpiece was also on hand. |
| Actor Richard Gere speaks at the opening ceremonies concert at the AIDS2006 conference in Toronto, Sunday Aug. 13, 2006. |
| -As a person promoting peace and help at the global level, what is your hope about HIV/AIDS and what is your role, as a famous person with many connections, in promoting youth involvement in fighting HIV/AIDS? -I would hope that youth are wise enough to get themselves informed about HIV/AIDS so that they don’t get hurt; a very specific thing, there shouldn’t be a reason for young person to get infected with HIV, if they know how to protect themselves, they won’t get it, it is up to all of us to know that, to tell our friends and leaders. I think it is about education. Young people must have access to the correct information. |
| Courtesy www.redribbonaward.org |
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| Actor Richard Gere, speaking to young people in Toronto yesterday as part of the International AIDS Conference, told them they have the ultimate power to change the world.orld. |
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| Actor and AIDS campaigner Richard Gere; Frika Chia Iskandar, Advisor, Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (APN+) and Dr. Peter Piot Executive Director UNAIDS pose for a photograph at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on August 14, 2006. Courtesy of www.unaids.org |
| The Light in Gere |
| The Light in Gere |
| The Light in Gere |