El Paso’s Border AIDS Partnership (BAP) presents its 4th Annual AIDS Walk fundraising event and Fun Fair. This year’s event includes a 5K run and an optional 1-mile walk. Registration starts at 7 am with the run/walk starting at 8 am. You may also sign-up the day of the event starting at 7 am, in the event you could not pre-register in time. The health fair with vendors begins at 8:30 am.

• The run is a 5k route around the lovely and historic neighborhoods surrounding Memorial Park.
• Registration is $25 and includes a commemorative shirt.
• Pre-registration is available at: https://runsignup.com/Race/Register

We are very excited about our 4th AIDS Walk. The walk had been postponed for two years due to the pandemic but returned in 2022. We hope that by joining us on this very special day you also will remember our loved ones who we have lost to AIDS, and will help support those currently living with the virus.

This is a family and pet-friendly event so please bring your kids. Pets are welcome. There will be a dog costume contest so dress them to impress!

In 1994, the El Paso Community Foundation and the US/Mexico Border Health Association created a local HIV/AIDS partnership to provide assistance to nonprofit organizations in the region working on this critical health problem. With support from AIDS United, the collaboration became the Border AIDS Partnership, a bi-national and tri-state funding collaborative that provides funding for HIV/AIDS education and prevention activities in El Paso, Southern New Mexico, and Ciudad Juárez. BAP now operates as an independent 501c3 nonprofit.

Since 1996, the Border AIDS Partnership has distributed more than $2.3 million to support innovative HIV prevention and education programs. Previous grantees include Centro Caritativo Para Atención de Enfermos de SIDA, University Medical Center of El Paso’s Teen Advisory Board, Programa Compañeros, support group HIVida, Actúa y Toma El Control, Opportunity Center for the Homeless, and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, Families & Youth, Inc.

• What: Border AIDS Partnership’s 4th Annual AIDS Walk Fundraiser
• When: Sunday, May 21, 2023, 8am-12pm
• Where: Memorial Park, 1701 N. Copia St.
• Registration: 7am
• Start of Race: 8am
• Fun Fair: 8:30am-12pm

Contact: Wayne Hilton - whilton.bap@gmail.com

Rudy Vasquez – Marketing Director, El Paso Community Foundation, (915) 534-8427 rvasquez@epcf.org

For more information or for help signing up, call (915) 533-4020. You can also find us on Instagram at @BorderAIDS_EP and Facebook at www.facebook.com/borderaidspartnership.