You Can't Save The World... The 2005 calendar read like the Book of Revelation. War, famine, hurricanes, floods. Worldwide disasters of Biblical proportion dominated the headlines. But close to home, they often went unnoticed.  You can't save the world but, together we can heal a small part of it in our own backyard. New Jersey • Suffers the nathion's 9th highest disparity between rich and poor.  Since 1980, earnings for the wealthiest five percent of families rose 132% ; for middle-income families 42%; for low-income families only 24%. • is No. 1 in the U.S. for women with HIV/AIDS; No. 5 for HIV-infected children. • 15% of its citizens are without health insurance; 625,000 go without food regularly; and 33% fuel increases force many seniors to choose  between food, heat or medicine.    Camden • N.J.’s poorest city and America’s 2nd poorest -- 35% of families live in poverty; 20% are jobless. • Half of high school students fail to graduate. • Seventeen of every 1,000 newborns die within 30 days. • One in every 100 people are HIV-positive • is in America’s top 1% for asthma and other pollution-generated health risks. You can’t save the world   After Hurricane Katrina, Americans gave more than $1 billion for relief. You’re in donation fatigue!  Still, if a hungry man knocks on your door, you’ll give him a sandwich. If your son’s HIV-positive friend’s parents throw him out, you’ll try to help him find shelter; and if your aged neighbor runs out of oil, you’ll give her a blanket and help get her tank filled. Of course you will, because they’re your neighbors. They’re in your back yard. We needn’t go to Pakistan for people who have nothing.  Our back yards are home to thousands of sick, hungry and destitute people. AHEC finds them every day. Yet, of $248.5 billion donated to U.S. charities last year, less than 10% went to groups directly helping the poor. Charitable gifts to the poor are actually declining! You can’t save the world   Neither can we.  But together, we can heal a broken little piece of it. Won’t you send AHEC your generous contribution to help fight hunger, ignorance, disease and despair in your back yard – and yours?  Your donation can help fund the important work of Camden AHEC. Here are some examples:  $5,000 provides home-health visits to 250 uninsured senior and disabled citizens.      $2,000 trains two medical students for treating uninsured clients in medically-underserved communities.  $1,000 covers supplies, counseling and HIV-preventive education for 100 high-risk school children.                   $500 brings medical testing, education, counseling and access to free care for 25 homeless clients.                                    $300 provides two weeks of after-school tutoring, mentoring and preventive health education.                             $200 pays for gas to keep AHEC’s Mobile Community Health Van on the road for one month.                                  $100 stems HIV/AIDS infections with education, counseling and condoms for high-risk clients.                            $50 supplies snacks and juice for hungry individuals who come to the AHEC van for care.  Choose an amount to be used for help where it’s needed most.    _$___________                                                     ____   Check   ____ Visa   ____   Master Card   *   Account #________________________   Exp. date _________ Signature _______________________________________   Name (print) ____________________________________ Address______________________________ City & State _________________________________  Zip __________________ Email Address _______________________________________   Telephone __________________  Please send your gift to Camden AHEC, 514 Cooper St., Camden, NJ 08102