WRITERS AGAINST AIDS AND TOBACCO SMOKING

WRITERS AGAINST AIDS AND TOBACCO SMOKING

(WAAIDSTOS)

 Writers Against AIDS and Tobacco Smoking is an association of authors from both literary and educational sectors who merged  to educate and inform people on the prevalent causes, effects and havocs of HIV/AIDS and Tobacco Smoking in Nigeria.  A literary and educational organization affiliated with Education Writers Association, (U.S.A) and Society of Young Nigerian Writers, (Nigeria). It was established to sensitize, inform, entertain, encourage and educate the public on what AIDS and Tobacco Smoking means, their havocs, effects, Causes, Spreads, Quitting, Misperceptions, symptoms, detection and monitoring, treatments, support mechanisms, preventions, Testing, Social perspectives, Social Stigma and Discrimination and information resources.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE MOVEMENT INCLUDE:

• To educate and inform the public on the need to abstain from unprotected sex and illicit smoking.
• To encourage and support the victims of the two scourges in making their plights known to the government and donor agencies across the globe.
• To re-orientate upcoming writers to write to give hope to the hopeless and not to write for winning prizes and accumulating money.
• Organizing workshops, symposia, conferences, seminars and fora for members of the Forum.
• Sourcing funds for financial supports for the affected victims.
• Publication of Weekly, Monthly and Annual Journals, Newsletters and magazines on the latest development and innovations on HIV/AIDS and Tobacco Smoking which will be in printed and online formats.
• Establishment of YOUNG WRITERS AGAINST AIDS AND TOBACCO SMOKING CLUBS in Schools, Churches, Mosques and different Business Units.
• To equip, nourish and nurture the minds of the younger ones on the necessity of abstaining totally from the two deadly scourges.
• To create a tink-tank platform where students and Anti-AIDS and Tobacco Smoking Writers can brainstorm and discuss the latest development on the two deadly stigmas.
• Support members in getting their works – articles and essays on AIDS and Tobacco Smoking published either in printed or online format for the benefits of the public.
• To create a computerized membership database of Writers Against AIDS and Tobacco Smoking.
• To broaden the vision of combating against the deadly AIDS and the dangerous Tobacco Smoking.
• To create a link where writers against AIDS and Tobacco Smoking can link and communicate with each other.
• To give award and reward health and social activists who had contributed greatly towards the reduction of the two deadly scourge in Nigeria.
• To work together with local and foreign agencies, associations, boards and organizations sharing the same vision with the Forum.

WOLE ADEDOYIN

COORDINATOR