FIRST NATIONAL CONTEST "ETICHETTA D'AUTORE"
First placed, painter Elio Poloni
Ponte della Priula (TV)
Rai di San Polo di Piave - May 25th 2008
We asked to the 50 artists that attended this edition to create for the wine Raboso an image able to express through painting the tradition of our territory.
WINE FOR LIFE is an initiative of Sant’Egidio Community which permanently links, for the first time, good quality wine to the salvation of a great continent such Africa, where more than 25 million people already have contracted the AIDS virus and 14 million children are orphans due to AIDS.
WINE FOR LIFE allows to realize DREAM, the program started in 2002 thanks to Sant’Egidio community to truly cure – using three-therapy and an overall and innovative approach - people who have AIDS in Mozambico, Malawi, Tanzania, Guinea Conakry, Kenia, Guinea Bissau, Nigeria, Angola, Congo Republic, Camerun and soon in other African countries.
With DREAM and WINE FOR LIFE Sant’Egidio community realizes today in all the sub saharian zone the most effective treatment against AIDS : more than 98% of the children in fact is born from ill or HIV- positive mothers without having the virus; thanks to the three-therapy, 9 adults out of 10 recover and can live a normal life.
The results have been so stunning that the World Health Organisation made a case study of it awarding the Community of Sant’Egidio the Balzan price for Peace in 2004.
At the summit of the African Union Heads of State hold in Nigeria in May 2006, DREAM has been one of the two success stories in AIDS treatment in Africa, the other being the program promoted by Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in Botswana.
WINE FOR LIFE is a sticker on the bottles that wine producers have bought: 100 stickers allow a baby to be born healthy from an ill or HIV-positive mother, 1000 stickers permit to an ill adult to live for a year and give support to his family, breaking in this way the tragic spiral that creates new orphans even amongst children born healthy.
People who buy - in a wine shop or in a restaurant - a quality bottle holding the WINE FOR LIFE sticker know that 0,50 eurocent has already been given to fight AIDS in Africa
DREAMS COME TRUE IN THIS WAY, TOO!
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