The Social Justice Project:

The organization I chose for this project was (PRODUCT) RED. I learned a lot about the organization throughout the course of this project. PRODUCT(RED) was founded in 2006 by Bono ,from U2, and Bobby Shriver. Their main goal is to raise awareness and funds to help rid Africa of the AIDS epidemic. (PRODUCT)RED is a brand name that partners with top brands including American Express UK, Apple, Bugaboo, Converse, Dell, Gap, Nike, Penfolds, and Starbucks. The company also has special editions from Beats by Dr. Dre, Girl Skateboards, Shazam, Solange Azagury-Partridge, and TimBuk2. Each company designs items with the (RED) logo on it, and a portion of the profit for each item goes directly to the Global Fund, the world's leading funder for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in Africa. It invests one hundred percent of the money it receives from (PRODUCT)RED in programs benefiting women and children. With the help of (RED), the Global Fund has made over $180 million and have helped over 7.5 people in Africa.(PRODUCT)RED's current goal is to have an AIDS-free generation in the year 2015.


Social Justice, to me, is the equal treatment of everyone and anyone, no matter what their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. is. Social justice had not existed to me before we had started this project. I had introduced to the concept of it from the Young Revolutionaries project we did last year, but I had not known what it was.

Before this project, I knew nothing about the Invisible Children. It was really eye-opening for me. I had no idea this had been happening all this time. It made me want to make a change, and I would definitely look into helping an organization like that when I'm older. The whole story with Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) really interested me, and I enjoyed learning about the organization.

I chose (PRODUCT) RED for this project because HIV and AIDS interests me a lot. HIV is an extreme prevalent disease and I've heard about it on the internet and on the TV all time, but I never really took it upon myself to research it. My knowledge about it was limited to the fact it was transmitted sexually or through bodily fluids and it could kill you. I took this project as an opportunity to learn more about the topic.

I feel like a had a lot of success with this project. More success, than challenge, at least. Writing a paper on HIV and AIDS wasn't necessarily challenging when it came to finding information, but it was really hard to condense all the information and pull out things relevant to HIV and AIDS in Africa. My main problem was the fact I wasn't focusing on the continent, but the world as a whole. I also found it difficult to find statistics that weren't just relevant to a specific area. I think I had okay time management with this project. Since it was spread out in a 3 month span, it was easier to think "I have plenty of time to do this." If I were to do this project again, I would spend more time on planning my art component. I feel like it could have come out so much cleaner if had put some effort into actually planning the process. Otherwise, I feel like I did good job.