Video program

Video program

target AIDS

Youth Film Festival on AIDS will be held at the Promise Land Baptist Church on Saturday, April 21 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The film festival is part of the Project M.O.R.E. AIDS education outreach to minority youth.

“The film festival is the first event planned by Rappahannock County volunteers,” reported Charlotte Freeman, a volunteer for Project M.O.R.E. “The program is to help youth be aware AIDS is out there and how they can avoid it.”

“AIDS is not prevalent in Rappahannock County but the AIDS epidemic is as close as Washington, D.C. In a few years many youth will be heading for college, or better job markets. The time to educate is before there’s a real danger,” explained Mrs. Freeman.

“Youth often do foolish things they ‘know’ are not right. Teenagers feel invincible, that nothing can happen to them. These videos help to bring home the real danger of AIDS,” added Mrs. Freeman.

“The primary message emphasized is to avoid AIDS — don’t Shoot drugs and postpone sex until you are in the committed relationship of marriage. The videos also are a plea for the compassionate understanding of and help to persons living with a devastating disease,” Mrs. Freeman said of the films.

The videos to be shown have been reviewed and approved the Virginia Department of Health. The Videos to be shown are ‘“Til Death Do Us Part” by the Everyday Theater Youth, “Teen AIDS in Focus” by the San Francisco Department of Health, “Don’t Forget Sherrie” by the American Red Cross, and “Black People Get AIDS, Too” by the Multicultural Resource Project Center.

Included in the program is singing by the Young Christian Men’s Chorus, prayer, a discussion and question period lead by Sarah Jane Lee, Health Educator for Rappahannock-Rapidan Health District, and refreshments.