First Baptist Church of Dalton is hosting the “World Vision Experience: AIDS” exhibit which is slated to visit 40 cities during its national tour in 2009. The exhibit has already visited 75 cities during 2007/2008.
Virtual Africa exhibit brings the horrors of AIDS home through a free, interactive exhibit open to the public that takes its visitors on a journey into AIDS-affected communities in Africa, as seen through the eyes of four children.
The public is invited to go through the free, multimedia, interactive exhibit and become one of the over 150,000 people who have been through the exhibit. Well over 150,000 more people are expected to visit the exhibit during the 2009 tour.
The “World Vision Experience: AIDS” exhibit is a unique, multi-media, interactive exhibit that allows Americans to step into the lives of actual children affected by HIV and AIDS in the hardest-hit region of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa, where about 25 million people are infected with HIV (2/3 of the world’s total).
Visitors walk through a replica of an African village and experience the effects of the pandemic in a real way as they listen to a personal audio track relating the story of one of four children – Kombo, Babirye, Emmanuel, and Mathabo.
The free exhibit will be open to the public from Sunday, July 12 – Sunday, July 19. Hours of operation are as follows: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. daily except Tuesday, which will be open 9 a.m. – 7 p.m.
First Baptist Church of Dalton is located at 311 North Thornton Avenue, Dalton, Ga. 30720.
Contact Walt Windley at 706 278-2911 or wwindley@firstbaptistdalton.com for more information.