Coping with HIV and AIDS Midnight ‘Being speakersAlive’come to share stories with students

Genna

News Editor

A normal morning for an HIVpositive person begins with a hefty cocktail of numerous medications and enough water to last for a trip through the desert.

For Hillel Wasserman, a 57-yearold motion picture marketing specialist, this has been his reality for the past 26 years.

“I have more physicians than I have friends,” Wasserman said with a laugh.

Fighting a deadly illness makes it a daily challenge to stay positive, but Wasserman has found a way to continue to live each day to its fullest by being a speaker for an organization called Being Alive. His speeches assist others by helping them deal with their illness and provide insight and education to the public about an illness that seems to remain a step ahead at all times.

“The purpose of Being Alive is to draw HIV-positive men and women out of the isolation and hiding that tends to come with this kind of devastating diagnosis and bring them back into the real world again,” Wasserman said.

Being Alive was created 27 years ago and was the very first peer-led, non-profit HIV/AIDS organization in the country, with everyone connected to the association being HIV positive. The group has a dynamic mental health program and is the only HIV/AIDS organization in the entire country that offers free one on one counseling to all of their members.

These first hand accounts are more personal than a description from a doctor.

“Our mission is to try to tell a personal story,” Colin Hadlow said, chairman of the speakers bureau. “We’re not trying to educate people on AIDS 101.” accepted that proposal with new counsel, Paul C. Bauducco. Asylum was under a joint occupancy contract with the Foundation for Pierce as a fundraiser project when college administration took control of farm oversight, representatives from the Foundation said.

The Foundation for Pierce College has been a non-profit organization since 1970 and currently manages 32 scholarship funds and assists 84 departments with resource and financial support. generates revenue for scholarships and school support through grants, donations and fundraising endeavors like partnering with Asylum on the Farm Center.

“I hope an agreement can be reached and they will be allowed to continue,” Nancy Pearlman, an LACCD board member, said.

According to public tax records from the years 2008 through 2010, in the last three full years, the Farm Center contributed a total of $1,312.351 in revenue to the Foundation.

The amount the Farm Center was compensated by the Foundation and the cost to the Foundation to run the project is not clear as accountants and the tax reporting changed, said Kathy Zanghi, financial manager for the Foundation.

The revenue in 2011- after Pierce took on oversight for the Farm Center- dropped from the hundreds of thousands down to $58,268 for the fiscal year..

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