WHAT IS THE STEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION AND WHY ARE WE SUPPORTING IT?
• Stephen Lewis has been appointed as the United Nations special envoy to Africa on HIV/AIDS. • Stephen Lewis was for many years the head of the New Democratic Party in Ontario and is a long-time friend of the Steelworkers • He is carrying out an active education and advocacy programme on the AIDS pandemic in Africa all over the world. • He has been so distressed with the slowness of government reactions to the pandemic in Africa that he has decided to set up his own Foundation to raise money for AIDS projects. • He has been carrying out speaking engagements all through Canada as a way of raising money for the Stephen Lewis Foundation including speaking to many groups of trade unionists. • When he spoke to District 6 of the Steelworkers in October 2003, there was an immediate response to his speech and $47,000 was pledged to the Foundation. • The Stephen Lewis Foundation has decided to concentrate its work on funding for AIDS orphans and on palliative care for women facing death from A
