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Our Mission, Our Vision, Our History
The Wall - Las Memorias Project is dedicated to promoting wellness and preventing illness among Latino populations affected by HIV/AIDS by using the inspiration of The AIDS Monument as a catalyst for social change."
Mission
The Wall Las Memorias Project was founded on World AIDS day, December 1, 1993. The dream of Richard Zaldivar was to build an AIDS monument to people who died of AIDS to engage the community to foster a conversation about cultural silence, shame and stigma.
The project organized the community to support its goal. It organized the community, seniors, high school students, clergy, elected officials, business and organized labor. On December 1, 2004, the dream became a reality with the dedication of the nation’s only publicly funded AIDS monument in front of 1500 people.
Over the past seventeen years, The Wall Las Memorias has created innovating educational and prevention programs. It has created several large awareness events. The agency provides a wide arrange of support services and community involvement opportunities for families, churches and individuals at high risk for HIV.
The Wall Las Memorias Project will continue to be in the forefront of the battle to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. It will also utilize it’s creative outreach effort to bring attention to the problems of substance abuse and mental heath.
The Wall Las Memorias Project is to challenge the human spirit to change our community to eradicate ignorance, stigma and HIV/AIDS. The Wall Las Memorias is constantly fulfilling its mission...
Vision Statement
In our vision:
• All who need them are offered access to specialized services designed to prevent HIV/AIDS and to promote societal wellness.
• Individual voices of the community are heard and all are in agreement on the essential need for social change.
• The AIDS Monument is a widely acknowledged catalyst for change and action, and forms the center of a united and vital community where stigma has been erased.
• Because of the important contribution of Faith to culture, mutually respectful linkages with faith communities as full partners promote wellness and have eliminated stigma among all people.
Our History
Founded in 1993, The Wall Las Memorias Project is dedicated to promoting wellness and preventing illness among Latino populations affected by HIV/AIDS by using the inspiration of the AIDS Monument as a catalyst for social change. Over the past fourteen years, The Wall Las Memorias has built strong community support for its innovating educational programs and awareness events. The agency provides a wide arrange of support services and community involvement opportunities for families, churches and individuals at high risk for HIV.
With strong community support for the project, local elected officials helped secure state and local public funding for the AIDS monument, making it the first publicly funded AIDS monument in the nation.
The Wall Las Memorias Project will continue to be in the forefront of the battle to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. The AIDS monument will bring awareness and remind us that the need for education remains vital to our community.
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