WORLD AIDS DAY [01 Dec. 2007]


Dance4Life participation in world AIDS day :

- Dance4Life is taking part all over the world in World AIDS Day actions, especially as the World AIDS Campaign, who organise the day, are one of our Global Partners.


All around the world
Les Mills are getting their members to fundraise for Dance4Life around World AIDS Day.

Egypt
Release of a set of radio PSA’s (Public Service Announcemnets) in partnership with The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation around Tiesto’s performance in Shamil Shaik on World AIDS Day.

Estonia
'We support Dance4Life' fundraiser and HIV awareness raising event in Valga: “STOP AIDS – Protect Yourself!” in the Exotica nightclub, supporting Dance4Life.

Germany
Dance4Life Event as finale for the Schools project. with lots of hiphop, dance, and a modern dance choreographed by Royston Maldoom.

Kenya
Dance4life team to perform the Dance4Life drill at the National AIDS Council commemoration of World AIDS Day.

Luxembourg
'We support Dance4Life' fundraising and dance event supporting Dance4Life at the ‘Secret Factory’ and ‘Pahia’, along with sms action. Listen to Madfreax's specially written song on our radio!

Mexico
- November 24th : Dance4Life Mexico Pilot Event with 200 young people
- November 30th, December 1st and 2nd: participation of Dance4Life Mexico team in National AIDS Congress in Leon, Guanajuato, presenting our Dance4Life projects

Moldova
November 24, 17.00 - 20.00: Concert dedicated to World AIDS Day with 1300 young people. The concert took place in a very select club called "People". Programming will have a HIV theme. Performing are: a very popular local band Studio One, dancers - TeoDance Studio, 2 Romanian band, very popular among youths in Moldova - Activ and second one Acord, African drums.

Entry to the concert is through participation in HIV prevention activities, by correctly answering questions on the radio station web side www.kissfm.md or by participating in the Heart Connection Tours of Dance4life Moldova.

Netherlands
29 November: Dance4Life taking part in the 60th anniversary of the Wereldomroep (Dutch world service radio), including a special video statement from Desmond Tutu supporting Dance4Life
30 November: youth meeting to discuss Dance4Life and youth involvement in our projects.
1st December: the new Dance4Life Netherlands anthem, by Relax featuring no one less than Desmond Tutu, is being released!

Tanzania
Hosting of pilot Events in Dar Es Salaam and Chunya to celebrate the new partnership in Tanzania between SPW and Dance4Life.

UK (http://www.worldaidsday.org/)
Action week, the week before and leading up to World AIDS Day, high school students will participate in a week of action as finale of the Dance4Life schools project.
http://www.dance4life.com/main
http://www.worldaidscampaign.info/

Dance4Life, the youth of today and Tiësto: together raising awareness on HIV and AIDS

HIV and AIDS form a major problem all over the globe. Dance4Life tries to do something about this, together with thousands of students and ambassadors like Tiësto.

Currently, almost 40 million people in the world are infected with HIV and 90% of them live in developing countries. Dance4Life actively involves youth all around the world in pushing back HIV and AIDS and fighting the stigma and taboos surrounding them. Youth can participate in Dance4Life through Dance4Life School Projects and Act4Life, which isn’t about books, preaching or homework; it’s about dance, music, drumming, videos, and the youth of today.

Tiësto is the ambassador of Dance 4 Life and recently he visited a few projects that Dance4Life currently runs in South Africa. He considers the concept of Dance 4 Life to be very effective: “The way Dance4Life engages young people around the world to do something about the HIV/AIDS problem is very powerful. They offer young people an attractive way to do something themselves, and reward them with a spectacular event. The combination of serious content and entertainment assures that Dance4Life gets young people on the move.”

So far, Dance4Life has achieved some major goals:

24 countries are preparing for Dance 4 Life in 2008
More than 100.000 young people danced simultaneously in 2006
More than 3.000.000 euro through fundraising
Involvement of major artists and brands
Distribution of 2.000.000 Dance4Life condoms

As of today, Tiësto is especially dedicated to World Aids Day. Please visit Tiësto’s homepage and see the exclusive video of his visit to the Dance4Life projects in South Africa and don’t forget to check out the pictures in our gallery.

Let’s all help raise awareness, so “start dancing, stop AIDS!”
http://www.tiesto.com