Keep a Child Alive

Life-saving AIDS medicine often costs less than a dollar a day, yet few families in Africa can afford a dollar a day.

Keep a Child Alive provides medical services needed to make treatment possible. Doctors, nutrition, testing, transportation, and treatment for opportunistic infections are all necessary for anti-retroviral treatment to be successful.

Photo Source: Wikipedia. Wikimedia. Dollar Bill. Government Work in Public Domain.

Keep A Child Alive is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Their mission to provide children and parents with lifesaving ARV medication is supported by groups and individuals who sponsor fundraising projects or special events.

School groups, churches, businesses, clubs, groups and individuals contact us daily with wonderful and creative ways to raise money and awareness of our cause.

Make sure that before you embark on planning your fundraiser, that you check out their community fundraiser guidelines.

Here are some ideas of things that you can do to help Keep a Child Alive:

* Auctions
* Bake Sales
* Car Wash
* Garage/Tag Sale
* Concert
* House Party/Dance or Social
* Donating a percentage of sales from your business
* Ebay Auction (Mission Fish)
* Walk-a-thon, Bike-a-thon or Marathon
* Workplace Campaign (collect one-time gifts or sign up monthly donors)
* Table in college campus student union or commons (with appropriate approval) See to KCA College for more info.
* Instead of gifts for birthday/holiday/retirement parties ask for a donation to KCA

I don't think we realize how much power that we have.

These tiny pennies from our Starbucks, our iTunes, our Con-ed bill, add up to a lot money to help keep people alive.

It's so easy.

Alicia Keys

Alicia in Africa: Journey to the Motherland is the breathtaking story of a generation that refuses to give up.

Spreading the message is so important to Alicia that she is making the documentary available for FREE online.

The first preview of the film will aired live on American Idol's Idol Gives Back April 9th (7:30-10pm ET/PT) on FOX.

Don't give up
'cos you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good

Peter Gabriel

Keep a Child Alive has launched of an innovative new program called 'The Good Cents Initiative.' They are partnering with businesses to help raise millions of dollars for the Keep a Child Alive mission.

For 'The Good Sense Initiative' they are asking companies to add one cent for Keep a Child Alive. That one cent maybe on the receipt for a cup of coffee, or a penny added to the price of a cd. It's about really small amounts that quickly add up to make a huge difference.

'The Good Cents Initiative' is designed to have very little cost to companies and a tiny cost to their customers. But it will generate enough money to provide millions of children in Africa and India with lifesaving AIDS medication, support services, and orphan care.

Remember less than a dollar a day keeps a child alive.

The "I am African", was spearheaded by the legendary Iman the global ambassador for Keep a Child Alive. Iman has origins in Somalia. The premise is that we are all descendants of Africans.

Iman appealed to various celebrities to show their African roots and are photographed in a modern take of African tribal make up and hair style.

Alicia Keys, David Bowie, Elija Woods, Sara Jessican Parker, Gwyneth Paltrow, Liv Tyler, Elizabeth Hurley, Righard Gere, Lucy Liu, Heidi Klum and Seal, Lenny Kravitz and Alan Cumming have all been photographed acknowledging African heritage.

View the "I am African" Campaign from the Keep a Child Alive Media Pages.

In addition to a contribution made my this lensmaster to Keep a Child Alive (in honor of her daughters), this lens benefits Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

This organization seeks to prevent pediatric HIV infection and to eradicate pediatric AIDS through research, advocacy, and prevention and treatment programs.