World Vision Experience: AIDS - Step into Africa

The "World Vision Experience: AIDS" exhibit comes to Alta Loma, CA, May 15 - 22. The exhibit visited 75 cities nationwide in 2007/2008, and is scheduled to visit 40 more in 2009. To date, hundreds of thousands of people have visited the exhibit, with more than 150,000 more expected to visit in 2009.

WHO: The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, features a 3,600 square foot replica of an African village. Visitors tour the village, listening on headsets to a personal audio track telling the true stories of four children - Kombo, Babirye, Emmanuel, and Mathabo - whose lives have been affected by AIDS, offering visitors the opportunity to see, hear and experience the devastating effects of AIDS in a very personal way.

WHEN: The free exhibit will be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. every day starting Friday, May 15, 2009, through Friday, May 22, 2009, except Sunday, May 17, 2009, the hours are 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Hillside Community Church
5354 Haven Ave.
Alta Loma, CA 91737

Exhibit information can be found at www.worldvisionexperience.org/hillsidechurch

Background:
A prototype exhibit was launched in fall 2005, and hundreds of thousands of visitors have gone through the exhibit in cities all across the United States. The prototype Experience was featured at the 2006 Global AIDS Conference in Toronto and displayed in New York's Grand Central terminal in the summer of 2006.

The overwhelming response to the prototype exhibit led World Vision to commission the new exhibits and launch the upcoming national tour.

World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty.

World Vision serves the world's poor regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender. For more information, visit www.worldvision.org.