Aid for AIDS Nevada ignores concerns about linkage to Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” Bill

“So please understand that when your AIDSwalk includes CRCC, it is not their faith that is shocking. It is not that they are conservative.

Rather, it is that you have a participant in your event who stands virtually alone in refusing to condemn the incarceration and execution of people for being gay.

This is such an extreme position that the Southern Nevada Health District found it necessary to cease any outreach at the church. They found it not only offensive, but that their support for Ssempa served to endanger gay Ugandans and to harm and hinder the efforts to fight HIV in that country.

I understand that others have brought this situation to your attention, but have not been successful in determining your stance. As I am a writer for a website that has been successful in getting the information about the bill out to the public and which has a large readership and close connections to gay media, they’ve requested that we inquire about your intentions.

So please let me know whether you will continue to allow CRCC to participate in your organization and to display their organization’s name. “– Timothy Kinkaid

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/08/24/25691

I think they will try to cover-up as much as possible. Board of trustee President Patricia Saavedra was adamant that Jennifer has done nothing wrong but during her three year reign AFAN operating cost have gone up while client services have all but disappeared.. There also has been several internal scandals during her watch.

They now proudly declare that the neediest of clients still get services. I know AFAN raised $2.6 million two years age, that was the last time I checked, yet out of 2,500 clients only the neediest are provided with minimum services?

Several staff members are paid through government grants. The State pays them to administer Ryan White and ADAP certification. Jennifer is paid a relatively LARGE salary, actually I was quite shocked at how much she takes of money earmarked for clients.

Jim St. Maire, a former Ryan White Planning Council member tried to look at their financial’s and was denied. He said that “their finances are very cloistered.” “No one is allowed to see what they do with the money or to get any financial accountability from them”.

Jennifer has turned AFAN into her own “Golden Goose”. There isn’t anyone with HIV or AIDS working there anymore because she fired Lane Olsen. To Jennifer it all about taking as much as she can, providing jobs for her friends and spending frivolously on infrastructure. She moved into that new and expensive office.They have all of the latest equipment like new computers for everyone.

The only services she is providing to clients is outreaches for the home-bound and once in awhile bus tokens and food vouchers to the extremely poor. Clients who receive around $1000 or more S.S.D. check shave been eliminated from receiving anything. They won’t help you pay your electric bill but Jared collects a decent paycheck and steals money to pay his electric bill.

Awhile back I heard a rumor that Jennifer was building a home using AFAN money. I didn’t think much of it but now I’m wondering. It seems $2.6 million should go a lot farther among clients then it did. Then with Patricia staunchly supporting Jennifer I’m wondering if some of the trustees are taking a piece.

I’m going to try and get the financial myself and look them over. Where is all that money going?

I think they will try to cover-up as much as possible. Board of trustee President Patricia Saavedra was adamant that Jennifer has done nothing wrong but during her three year reign AFAN operating cost have gone up while client services have all but disappeared.. There also has been several internal scandals during her watch.

They now proudly declare that the neediest of clients still get services. I know AFAN raised $2.6 million two years age, that was the last time I checked, yet out of 2,500 clients only the neediest are provided with minimum services?

Several staff members are paid through government grants. The State pays them to administer Ryan White and ADAP certification. Jennifer is paid a relatively LARGE salary, actually I was quite shocked at how much she takes of money earmarked for clients.

Jim St. Maire, a former Ryan White Planning Council member tried to look at their financial’s and was denied. He said that “their finances are very cloistered.” “No one is allowed to see what they do with the money or to get any financial accountability from them”.

Jennifer has turned AFAN into her own “Golden Goose”. There isn’t anyone with HIV or AIDS working there anymore because she fired Lane Olsen. To Jennifer it all about taking as much as she can, providing jobs for her friends and spending frivolously on infrastructure. She moved into that new and expensive office.They have all of the latest equipment like new computers for everyone.

The only services she is providing to clients is outreaches for the home-bound and once in awhile bus tokens and food vouchers to the extremely poor. Clients who receive around $1000 or more S.S.D. check shave been eliminated from receiving anything. They won’t help you pay your electric bill but Jared collects a decent paycheck and steals money to pay his electric bill.

Awhile back I heard a rumor that Jennifer was building a home using AFAN money. I didn’t think much of it but now I’m wondering. It seems $2.6 million should go a lot farther among clients then it did. Then with Patricia staunchly supporting Jennifer I’m wondering if some of the trustees are taking a piece.

I’m going to try and get the financial myself and look them over. Where is all that money going?