Today is World AIDS Day and I read an article on MSNBC regarding the status of AIDS around the world. Here are some excerpts.
AIDS is still a global concern and a crisis in Africa.
World health officials say there’s some encouraging data on the HIV front — the number of people infected with the virus [...]

There was a recent psa contest with Keep A Child Alive and the two winning submissions would earn a trip of a life to time to Africa to see first hand the struggles and the truimphs first hand. I really wanted to participate but couldn’t muster up a worthy submission in time. Hopefully, they do [...]

This is the night that Keep a Child Alive will be featured on American Idol. Check your local listings for time and please consider texting “alive” to 90999 and donate $5. If you do, you will get a confirmation text where you will need to reply with a “yes” to process the donation. You will [...]

There is some exciting news regarding KCA that I wanted to share with you. Read on…
ATTENTION KCA Community!
We are thrilled to announce the official launch of our nationwide KCA Texting Challenge!  As you know, if you text the word “ALIVE” to 90999, you automatically donate $5.00 to lifesaving AIDS treatment for KCA children and families.
TODAY, [...]

We created a profile on the KCA College website that I wanted to share with you. There are lots of significant changes in the works for fybut, so I encourage you to join us there, especially if you are interested in our KCA endeavors. More to come in the coming days, weeks, and months.

Today is World AIDS Day and as stated earlier, we have made our inaugaral donation to Keep A Chld Alive. We donated $250 with your support. We look forward to continuing to support their heroic efforts and appreciate your continued support of our company and dedication to philanthropy and combating AIDS. We hope to make [...]

We have, to date, helped to raise nearly $500 to support the mission of KCA in the fight against AIDS in Africa that includes the $230 that was raised with the KCA College chapter at Hilltop High School and the over $200 that we have raised on behalf of fybut, through our own sales. Fybut [...]

(From left to right: Jade, Jessica, Brittnie and Ms. RADford)
I just wanted to say how inspired I am by the KCA College chapter at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, California. The desire to make a difference and the willingness to take a stand is something that translates across all ages and geographies and should [...]

I had the priviledge of meeting some amazing students at Hilltop High School in Chula Vista, CA, today. I was contacted by KCA College regarding their desire to have a fybut tee shirt sale to raise funds for KCA. We had a short amount of time, as they were selling them during a half hour [...]

We haven’t posted since the end of the 2008 presidential elections, so I thought it might be a good idea to let everyone know what’s going on in the fybut world. I have been in contact with Keep a Child Alive and we are discussing our current involvement and the evolution of our involvement. We [...]

we wanted to share a little shout out that we got from kca college and take this time to let you know that we will be making our first donation to kca on december 1st, which is world AIDS day. we hope that if you plan to purchase a red1 tee that you make it [...]

continuing with our AIDS awareness month, there was a recent article by reuters posted on msnbc.com about a conference to be held in south africa this week regarding the development of an AIDS vaccine. it is a momentus event because it is being held in africa where AIDS is a pandemic and because of the [...]

keep a child alive has revamped their website, so i thought it would be a good time to tell you about some of their upcoming events. the following information was taken from their website at www.keepachildalive.org
november 14-15 in nyc: keep a child alive student AIDS summit
What is the Keep a Child Alive Student AIDS [...]

american express is running a contest, where they will award a total of 2.5 million dollars to philanthropic project(s). keep a child alive is one of the projects in the running. you don’t have to be an american express card holder to participate. the following is a message that i have received from kca.
Dear friends [...]

i recently met jennifer salazar who is a regional representative for the kca college program. this program provides the tools for high school and college students to create an action organization on their campus that supports the mission of keep a child alive.  please visit their website at www.kcacollege.com, where you can view the existing [...]

so why has fybut decided to champion the mission of keep a child alive?

because AIDS is a deadly epidemic that is not going away. the sheer numbers of millions that have died from this disease, needlessly, and the millions that will die from this disease, needlessly, without action, are staggering and the magnitude of [...]

this post contains the trailer for the documentary, alicia in africa: journey to the motherland. you can watch the video in its entirety at www.aliciainafrica.com or on the kca myspace page.
here is an excerpt from the official press release of the documentary.
“Alicia in Africa, directed by South African filmmaker Earle Sebastian, shows us an Africa [...]

over the next few days, we will be sharing a series of posts about the organization keep a child alive. you can read our original post that talks about the red1 design, keep a child alive’s mission and how we came across them, here.
this first post in the series contains excerpts from an article [...]

i developed a desire early on for helping others. i was in 5th grade when i started to tutor kindergarten kids and i remember my first pupil; his name was sunni and he was quiet and shy but when he smiled, you knew that he would live up to his name. from that [...]