AIDS Memorial Quilt
Hospital & Health Care - Atlanta, Georgia, United States
AIDS Memorial Quilt Employees
AIDS Memorial Quilt Details
With more than 47,000 handmade panels created in memory of nearly 92,000 individuals lost to HIV/AIDS, The AIDS Memorial Quilt is the largest, ongoing, piece of community folk art project in the world and our most potent tool in the fight to educate against HIV/AIDS With teddy bears and Boy Scout badges, wedding rings and faded photographs, The Quilt is a vivid reminder that HIV/AIDS can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any age. It allows us to see not a disease or a set of statistics, but a mother, a child, a father or a brother. By revealing the humanity behind the statistics, The Quilt helps teach compassion, triumphs over taboo, stigma and phobia; and inspires individuals to take direct responsibility for their own well-being and that of their family, friends and community. Established in 1987, The NAMES Project Foundation is the non-profit organization that is the caretaker of The AIDS Memorial Quilt. The agency's mission is to preserve, care for and use the ever-growing AIDS Memorial Quilt to foster healing, advance social justice and inspire action.
