NOTE: Article first appeared on The Citizen website on November 7, 2014.
The Treatment Action Campaign have embarked on an emergency fundraising drive to counter the R30 million deficit they are facing.
The HIV/Aids activist organisation is urgently in need of financial support via donations to keep them from closing their doors.
Lotti Rutter from TAC said: “We have a R30 million deficit… We are trying to crowd source the money we need” through a current month long fundraising drive.
“So far there has been a great level of support, We are hopeful that will raise enough money,” she added.
TAC has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV/Aids for close to ten years now.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu made a passionate plea for donations for TAC, saying they have been central to restoring hope to the millions of South Africans afflicted by HIV/Aids.
“Aids is not over, it is not over until the evils that drive HIV such as rape and violence against women and children are defeated,” he said.
Rutter said the public support has been overwhelming in the few days that they have embarked on the drive.
Last night a virtual townhall meeting was held by the campaign on social network Twitter under the #SaveTAC hashtag.
The conversation centred around their funding issue as well as the vital role of social activism:
If TAC is unable to get the funds it needs this month, they will be forced to close their doors on December 1, World Aids Day.
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