Gere joins AIDS campaign
Hollywood actor Richard Gere today attended a three-hour AIDS awareness workshop in the Indian capital, New Delhi, stroking his Buddhist prayer beads as he listened to speeches and watched street plays and a puppet show.
“Make Art/Stop AIDS”, an awareness-through-art workshop mainly funded by the UN AIDS agency and the Gere Foundation India Trust, has been travelling around India for the last six months.
The workshop will head to Bangkok next for the July 11 to 16 World AIDS Conference, said Gere’s brother Dr David Gere, director of the project.
The actor plans to launch a “Heroes Project” in Bombay tomorrow – a campaign to fight the spread of HIV-AIDS in India.
