Dance4Life

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Member Since: 10/20/2006
Band Website: dance4life.com
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In 2006 SPW’s Dance4Life UK::

reached 25 schools with a Dance4Life School Tour:
The School Tour roamed the UK for three weeks, delivering a high energy, high impact, interactive multi-media performance session. Averaging two schools a day the team were able to reach out to 6,000 young people between 30th October and the 17th November. The Tour Team was made up of young people from developing countries, dance facilitators and young campaigners from the UK. On the tour the team worked to inform and educate young people about the facts of Aids and also to challenge percieved notions around the subject of Aids and stigma. . HIV has the potential to effect all young people and the students who participated in the tour were invited to view HIV not as something that effets only those who live in far flung Africa, rather that it is present much closer to home; here in the UK on an increasing scale. The young people on the tour were also encouraged to acknoweldge the differences that face those who contract the virus here in the UK and those who live with the virus in the poorer communities of this world. Whilst people, young and old, here in the UK have access to the knowledge and means to choose to protect themselves from infection, this is not the case throughout the world. There are many young people who, due to circumstantial reasons (eg. poverty) are unable to make those choices. Inspired to take action young people will be supported to fundraise and raise awareness of HIV and AIDS in their schools and communities

Engaging young people in fundraising: Each school taking part in the programme has been organising their own fundraising activities – directly raising money for youth led HIV prevention programmes in Africa and South Asia. Dance4Life encourages young people, statistically a demographic that is particularly at risk from HIV, to take an active part in the process of preventing the spread of the virus. To educate those around them about the virus and to raise money for that message to be passed on around the world.

If you were involved in any fundraising for the Dance4Life UK programme get in touch with us at the London office, we would love to know how your project went. Send us an email at [email protected] describing what you organised and how it all went. If you can include pictures that would be fantastic as we would love to put them up here to let everyone know about your amazing ideas!

Informed young people about the issues: From January 2007 each Dance4Life school will be linked to a Global Peer Educator who will deliver workshops and sessions in schools to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS, poverty and other global issues, offering the chance of the students involved to become informed global citizens.

Other partners include:Dance4Life International ( www.dance4life.com ).
SSL International (Durex): SSL International is a key strategic partner for Dance4Life UK ( www.durex.com ).
Red Zebra: Red Zebra engage young people in personal development through dance, drumming and creativity and will work in partnership with SPW in supporting the dance elements of the programme.
DFID:The UK Government’s Department for International Development is funding SPW’s global education programme over a 3 year period ( www.dfid.gov.uk )
Myriad: Myriad is a leading public relations firm and will be providing support in securing print and television coverage of Dance4Life UK 2006 ( www.myriadpr.com ).
Student Stop Aids Campaign (SSAC): SSAC is a national coalition of organisations including SPW (who is the coordinating agency), People & Planet, Christian Aid and National Union of Students. Through mobilising, educating and empowering young people the Student Stop AIDS Campaign is building a social movement of young people as the key agents for change amongst their own peers and in public policy on HIV/AIDS ( http://www.stopaidssocieties.org.uk ).