NextAid World Aids Day Event (Event Over)

Humanitarian organization NextAid announces its second annual World AIDS Day 2009 Events (WAD09), a multi-date fundraising campaign in cities across the U.S. starting on November 25, 2009 in San Francisco and continuing throughout the entire month of December. Tied into World AIDS Day (WAD), a globally recognized day, which takes place every year on December 1st, NextAid activates the international dance music community to raise funds and awareness to benefit AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children in Africa. The first WAD in 1988, established by the World Health Organization, was about raising money, increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education, and the goals are as relevant as ever in 2009. A portion of the proceeds from each of NextAid’s
WAD09 events will go towards two of its current projects on the ground: the Kawangware Street Children & Youth Project (KSCYP) in Nairobi, Kenya, and the loveLife goGogetters program which helps South African children go to school. For more information on NextAid and all the WAD09 events please visit http://www.nextaid.org/wad2009.

The funds raised from the World AIDS Day 2009 campaign of events will go towards two of NextAid’s current projects:
- The Kawangware Street Children & Youth Project (KSCYP) in Nairobi, Kenya
- The goGogetters Program and NextAid’s “Send A Child to School” Campaign, South Africa
Locally created and managed, KSCYP strives to get youth off the streets of Kawangware, a slum bordering Nairobi, by providing opportunities for economic and performance activities. The profits generated for KSCYP help support the youth workers’ basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care and education, while also taking care of the community’s orphaned and vulnerable children. NextAid has joined forces with KSCYP by committing to raise funds for the construction of an eco-friendly, multipurpose facility for the project’s micro-business.
The “Send A Child to School” program is in partnership with the well-respected South African organization, loveLife, the country’s national HIV prevention program for youth. The goGogetter’s program supports the many grandmothers (gogos) who have been dedicating their old-age years to the wellbeing of orphans and at-risk children. NextAid is raising funds for the schooling needs of some of the most vulnerable children who participate in the goGogetters program. It only takes $75 to cover the cost
of one child’s education for an entire year, ensuring that a child has tuition and is equipped with a school uniform, shoes and school supplies.
More World AIDS Day Events - from Coast to Coast -
NextAid has partnered with influential organizations such as Fusicology, The MML, Green Galactic, Rhythmism, URB Magazine, and Wantickets to help with the massive promotional efforts for the growing WAD09 campaign of events. Events are happening in San Francisco, Boston, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Omaha, NYC, Philadelphia, and Syracuse totaling over a dozen events confirmed so far throughout the months of November and December. Participants include Giant Step, DEEP, Insomniac,
ONE, Club Technique, Uniting Souls, Playloop, OM Records, Free Thinking, supperclub SF, Charlotte House Society, DT Productions, loom, and Uhuru Afrika. More information about these events is available here: www.nextaid.org/wad2009