APICHA: The First 10 Years

APICHA's Education Department delivered hundreds of workshops/rap sessions and made thousands of face-to-face contacts with Asians and Pacific Islanders in the past year. This extraordinary effort was powered by more than 60 bilingual peer educators who were themselves thoroughly trained and supported by professional staff.

A pool of 125 generous volunteers helps in a myriad of tasks at APICHA, and more volunteers are always welcome. Without them, our work could not go forward. From wrapping condoms to transcribing reports, from data entry work to setting up food at receptions, volunteers really support APICHA down to the last detail. In-kind donations of useful items have made a tremendous difference. Please call us to see what our current needs are.

APICHA's technical assistance and staff training services have been provided free to all the smaller community-based organizations in the Asian and Pacific Islander communities of New York. APICHA has provided workshops in harm reduction, health and sexuality issues, fund raising, presentation and facilitation skills, workshop development, immigration issues, media outreach and leadership development. In APICHA's women's project, domestic violence issues, self-defense and safer sex negotiation have been the leading subjects of workshops. We have reached out as well to Queer organizers and HIV and AIDS organizers in Burma, Korea, India and Thailand.

We Are Community... Forging Ahead

As the AIDS pandemic threatens immigrants in the United States, Asian countries and Pacific Island nations, APICHA and our supporters and distinguished honorees are working across lines of race, class, sexuality, gender, age, HIV status, ethnicity, religion, nation and language to achieve our goals - a united community that can defeat AIDS.