World AIDS Day Celebrates God's Love We Deliver Charity (VIDEO)
The charity organization “God’s Love We Deliver” has long provided crucial assistance to people suffering from HIV/AIDS, and it is being celebrated today for World AIDS Day.
The institution was assembled a quarter century ago based on the inspiring story of Ganga Stone, who began cooking for a man dying of AIDS in a hospice, according to The Huffington Post. Ever since, God's Love We Deliver has grown into an organization that today serves close to 4,000 meals every day to people suffering from HIV, AIDS, cancer, and other illnesses. The service is entirely free, and is maintained by the volunteers who give their time and efforts each day to keep it going.
God's Love We Deliver receives some government support, but it continues to thrive mostly because of the donor money it receives. Among the big contributions that keep the nonprofit alive was Joan Rivers’ $250,000 donation in 2009 after her appearance on “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
One story chronicled by The Huffington Post told of an HIV patient who has been out of work for more than a year and has been struggling with his health. Aaron Rochman’s $200 food stamps he receives from the government is not enough to feed him, and he relies on God’s Love We Deliver to get him by each week – receiving food deliveries every Wednesday.
Before signing up for the program, he was losing weight because of his illness and reached 112 pounds. He felt his life slipping away, and although at first he was hesitant to ask for charity assistance, he made the decision to let the volunteers take care of him.
He expressed his deep gratitude towards the organization and said: "When your body is depressed because of sickness and medication issues, anything that is helpful and integral to making that feel better is going to make your mind feel better. Once you get out of that depressive state, you're going to start feeling more hopeful."
In the God's Love We Deliver video, volunteers share reasons why they help and why the organization means so much to so many people.
