The foundation is a joint South African and Australian support group that supports AIDS orphans in Soweto, South Africa, by knitting blankets for them.

Minister Glenn Rowbotham said the group involved people from around the world knitting squares that are then made into "beautiful blankets and distributed with love to the thousands of children who have been orphaned as a result of the HIV/AIDS virus taking their parents' lives".

Mr Rowbotham said the HIV/AIDS virus affected nearly 25 million people within sub-Saharan Africa and claimed more than two million African lives every year.

"The combined efforts of African poverty and lack of access to anti-viral drugs means that the people of Africa have much higher incidence rates for HIV/AIDS when compared to wealthier western countries," he said.

The awareness day will be held at Daylesford Christian Fellowship Church, 16A Camp St, on Sunday, May 24, at 10am.

It will include a presentation from Knit A Square on its work in South Africa and will have a "distinctly African flavour with African music, visual displays and African music", Mr Rowbotham said.

Everyone is welcome.

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