 Sauber Join Forces with UN to Help Fight AIDS Thursday September 12th, 2002
Sauber will offer the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) space to mark their race cars with the slogan "Stop-AIDS" in the final three Grands Prix of the season in Italy, the United States and Japan. "The initial idea for this project came up after the international conference on AIDS in July in Barcelona, when employees of Sauber felt that we should try to help in some way," said team boss Peter Sauber. "I contacted Adolf Ogi, the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace, who was instrumental in bringing us together with the right people at UN." The initiative will support fund raising for two projects that provide housing and care to AIDS orphans in Botswana where close to 70,000 children under the age of 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS. The two AIDS orphan projects in Botswana are being managed by local communities and funded by UNDP. "This partnership is another example of constructive cooperation between the world of sports and the United Nations," added Ogi. "The high profile of Formula One racing is exactly the type of platform that the worldwide fight against AIDS requires."
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The Sauber Formula One team have joined forces with two United Nations institutions in a partnership aimed at bringing HIV/AIDS awareness messages to the international audience and to mobilise resources for AIDS-related projects in countries worst affected by the disease.
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