October, 16 2007 Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation presented a unique social collection Love Fashion AID devoted to the fight against AIDS. Each of 38 Ukrainian designers created two wedding dresses for this collection dedicated to HIV-positive people. “HIV/AIDS is not a verdict. Live is going on! And the happiness is real!” – The project participants claimed. The magic show produced by well-known Ukrainian designer Alexey Zalevskiy deeply touched guests in Ukrainian fashion Week’ pavillion and M1 Channel’ TV audience as the show was broadcasted live. HIV-positive people, Ukrainian celebrities took part in the show and Miss World 2006 Tat’ana Kucharova closed the show.

The charitable auction organized by Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation took place on November, 16 and represented social collection Love Fashion AID created by 38 Ukrainian designers. The result of the auction has broken a record of Ukraine – 535,000 USD (2, 7millions UAH) were raised. Attire from fashion-studio MUNA was the most expensive lot sold for 59 500 USD (starting price grew 405 times) to Garry Korogodsky. Nikolay Lagun, CEO of “Delta Bank”, scored the first in the number of items bought (three) and donated the largest sum of money – 104 000 USD. There was the first auction where telephone biddings were accepted.

Photo report from the show you can be downloaded at the ANTIAIDS Foundation site. Photo report from the auction is here.

On March 19, on the catwalk of Ukrainian Fashion Week (UFW) 30 leading Ukrainian designers demonstrated joint collection “FASHION AID”, dedicated to the fight against AIDS. Each participant of the project has created one red image. The collection is available here.

22 of March 2007, as a result of the biggest in Ukrainian history charitable auction, organized by Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation and Network of People living with HIV/AIDS, 203 260 USD were raised for the needs of HIV positive orphans and their foster families. The participants of the auction were fighting for each lot. As a result – starting prices grew in 128 times during the biddings!

Photo reports of the fashion show and Fashion AID auction you can see here.

On the last week of the year 2006, Santa knocked at the door of 1 444 HIV positive kids in 23 regions of Ukraine. For the fourth year in a row Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation and All-Ukrainian network of people living with HIV purchase, pack and send new year’s presents to the smallest HIV positive Ukrainians. Comparing to the last year the number of HIV positive children has doubled. The budget of the project in 2006 has come to almost 16 thousands USD.

13 of August 2005 in Chernovitskiy region therapeutic camp “The Road to Life” for HIV-positive people and their families completed its work. The camp was organized by “Changing the World” Regional charitable foundation and coalition of local HIV-service organization. “The Road to Life” is the second project of Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation on supporting summer therapeutic camps in regions. The foundation has been supporting therapeutic camp “Return of love” in Poltava region for two years.

July 29, 2005 – International children’s festival “Let’s change the world to the better!” came to its end in “Artek”. A number of trainings on HIV/AIDS, creative workshops on social posters, social video clips and a theatre workshop were conducted during the festival due to support of Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation. Prior to the closure of the festival, a “festival within the festival” was held in “Artek”, during which Artek campers and professional teams from Kyiv, Lviv and Donetsk were drawing on the beach graffiti on HIV/AIDS. Participants of the festival made an address to governments of their countries, asking to give more information on HIV/AIDS and to create decent living conditions for HIV-positive people and people living with AIDS.

The village of Mikhailovka, Dikan’ka rayon, Poltava oblast. The Dikan’ka reserved forest near Vorskla river hosts the 5th therapeutic summer camp “Return of Love”, which was opened on July, 15, 2005.  The camp is organized by a Charitable Association “Light of Hope”, which supports HIV-positive people, drug users, as well as specialists of HIV-service organizations and harm reduction programmes. The second year this project receives support of Elena Franchuk “ANTIAIDS” Foundation. Due to the positive experience of last year, the Foundation supports this summer two therapeutic camps, in Poltava region and in Bukovyna.

On May 14th, 2005 on the eve of the International Candlelight Memorial Day Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation together with All-Ukrainian Network of people living with HIV/AIDS conducted the press-tour for journalists dedicated to this date. The main purpose of the event was to provide journalists from different media with information about day-to-day life of HIV positive people in Ukraine. This day the unusual bus cruised along Kiev streets. There gathered the journalists, specialists on HIV/AIDS and people living with HIV. During this trip they discovered and discussed different life aspects of HIV-infected people and people who have AIDS. The topics to discuss varied from HIV testing to treatment and care of HIV-infected people.