Good morning!

We hope you enjoyed hearing the news from Verity in India! We also hope that you now understand how important the work of Dance4Life is.

Remember you can have a lot of fun helping out! You can play the Dance4Life Game for example. Don’t forget to tell all your friends and see who can get the top score!

Seeing as it is the weekend, we expect that you are all going out and hitting the dance floors with style. A great way to help Dance4Life is to simply wear your Dance4Life T-shirt, to help spread our message. The more people who know about us, the more successful we can be.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Dance to beat HIV and AIDs.

Good morning everyone!

We hope you are all well. Did you read about yesterdays exciting news from Dance4Life’s very on Verity all the way from Tamil Nadu in India?
We hope you enjoyed it! If like Teisto, Judge Jules, Paul Van Dyk and Tim Westwood you feel it is a worthy cause and want to support dance4life there are loads of ways.
We believe that young people are the solution and have a strong voice that need to be heard!
Support them by supporting Dance4Life. Give young people the opportunity to have control over HIV, and not the other way round!
Find out more now!

Hello there everybody!

Dance4Life has just received news from Verity Danbold – a dance4life Development Trainer currently working in Tamil Nadu!

Tamil Nadu is in rural India and despite monsoon rains the enthusiastic dancers at the KKG school there participated in the worldwide December 1 Dance4Life HIV/AIDS awareness day! The school provides 43 students (aged six to eighteen) with a sound education.

It is a residential school and the KKG gives its students a healthy, safe and nurturing environment to grow up in.
However, Tamil Nadu is officially recognized as having a high HIV/AIDS infection rate, accurate information is difficult – ‐if not impossible – to find. This is due to deep rooted denial of extra‐ or pre‐marital sex, which makes condom use and STD testing seen socially to be ‘unnecessary.’ People frequently die undiagnosed ‐ their deaths attributed only to the secondary infection caught as a result of HIV/AIDS. Many HIV/AIDS patients are sent to a TB treatment hospital, undeniably shortening their life span.

This again highlights just how important Dance4Life’s work can be;  sexual health education provided to the KKG students is vital. It’s easy to see why top DJ’s such as Tiesto, Judge Jules, Tim Westwood and Paul Van Dyk are all ambassadors!
The good news is following their weeks of health and sexual education the children were all well aware of HIV/AIDS. From the very youngest to the oldest, they all eagerly pledged to lead a safe and healthy life, suggesting everything from condom use to teeth brushing to a respectful and faithful marriage as ways to do this. After the announcement the winners proudly displayed their new Dance4Life pens ‐ a valuable commodity in India! In addition The following day the newspaper was filled with pictures of the children’s favorite stars also taking a stand against HIV/AIDS.

Dance4Life believes this is the most effective way to help beat HIV and AIDS. We hope you do too and will support Dance4Life for Life!

Please check out the KATTAI KUTTU KUDAM WEBSITE!

Hey there everyone!

Dance4Life mentioned yesterday about what we do with peoples very generous donations. We are so grateful for any money that people can give, but don’t worry if you aren’t able to do this, there are still loads of ways for you help out and get involved with some amazing charity work.

Ways To Support and Become Involved With Dance4Life:

fundraising:

We promise every pennt goes directly to creating one million Agents of Change. This way we can all actively contribute to pushing back HIV and AIDS. An Agent of Change is a young person who is actively involved in Dance4Life and makes a positive active contribution on an individual, national or international level to pushing back HIV and AIDS.

make Dance4Life more visible: Dance4Life is the platform of young people pushing back HIV and AIDS – give Dance4Life visibility and you give them visibility. Why not wear your Dance4Life t-shirt out and about, and help spread the message.

raising awareness about HIV and AIDS: know the correct facts about HIV and how it is transmitted. Take responsibility for yourself and tell your friends, family and community about HIV.

To support Dance4Life, then we want it to be as easy as possible. Just register with us, and you will get access to lots of materials to help you: logos, poster, flyers, Dance4Life HIV fact sheet, banners, Dance4Life leaflet, stickers, sponsorship form, press release, clips and more. We’ll even put details of what you’re doing on this website!

If you want to find out more about great charity’s that do similar work to us, then you may want to read about World Aids Day and this may help you to understand just how important the work we do it.  Another great charity that helps out in areas of the world where HIV and AIDS is highly prevalent is The Red Cross. They also do a blog just like us, so why not check out what they are up to. Remember, an informed Agent of Change is exactly what we need to help beat AIDs and HIV.

Hello there everybody!

Dance4life hopes you had a great weekend and boogied away like nutters (we all did!)

On a more serious note, some of our fans have been asking lately if they donate any money to Dance4Life, where does it go, who will it help, how will it help, and so on.

So we thought we’d explain a little bit more about it…

All the money raised by Dance4Life UK goes to HIV/AIDS projects run by Students Partnership Worldwide (SPW). SPW is Dance4Life’s National Concept Owner in the UK.  They will spend it on projects aimed at young people, care, awareness, training and prevention in those areas of the world most affected by HIV/AIDS.

Some examples of where the money goes:
SPW volunteers’ activities are facilitated in the classroom, in the extracurricular school timetable and in the wider community. The volunteers deliver a phenomenal quantity and quality of HIV/AIDS/SRH (Sexual and Reproductive Health) Awareness Raising and Life Skills activities for young people across all the placement schools and communities. The volunteers are positive role models for their peers both in and out of school and stand as examples of people making healthy and informed lifestyle choices.

We all know how tight things can be in January, so don’t worry if you can’t afford to help out with a financial donation at the moment; by signing up as and Agent of Change (which is free) you can still do your bit to help fight HIV and AIDS.

So what are you waiting for!

Hello everyone!

Here at Dance4Life we would like to wish you a great weekend!

Get out and hit those dance floors with all your best moves! We would love to see people out and about in their Dance4Life t-shirts to help spread the message! Remember by acting as an Agent of Change you can help us beat HIV and AIDS. Now that’s a good way to spend a weekend!

Remember you can sign up as an Agent on the website, and it is totally free. While you are there why not check out the great Dance4Life Game! Great stuff!

Have a good one everybody!

We are very excited here at Dance4life today as we have just heard that one of our top ambassadors DJ Tiesto was named Mixmag’s #1 DJ in 2008!

Mixmag is a top UK dance magazine that announced Tiësto  was the Number One DJ of the year 2008.  According to the article, the voting was unanimous: ‘No other DJ came close to matching the Tiësto juggernaut’! This is in addition to Tiësto won The DJ Award 2008 for Best International DJ at Ibiza’s DJ Awards. He really is a supertar DJ!

We are very proud of Tiesto and all his success! We were honored when Dance4Life organized the big event fundraiser with Tiësto as the main act.
Just a reminder to everyone,  Tiesto has done some exclusive tracks for the Dance4Life album available on the Dance4Life website! Definitely worth checking out.

Here at Dance4Life we are very pleased that America has a new president! We hope Obama’s role will mean change for the world!

To celebrated why not stick on the Dance4Life album and go crazy! With great tracks from the world best DJ Tiesto – What better way to celebrate a new era?!

Failing that, why don’t you watch the highlights of the Dance4Life event? People celebrating all over the world the great work of Dance4Life, you can dance along with your friends or on your own; both are great! Lets dance our way to a brighter future.

Hello everyone!

We hope you have been enjoying all that Dance4Life has to offer! The great game, videos and photos aswell as the amazing Dance4Life album! We’ve got it all for you. But did you know you can also tune in to our very own Dance4Life album radio?

Oh yes! That’s right. Just go to the homepage and click on the left-hand column in the box labelled “radio”.

Click here!

You can then listen for free to some of the exclusive songs made for us from world class DJ’s such as Tiesto!! What are you waiting for?!

Hello Everyone!

Dance4life hopes you had a great weekend! We certainly did, dancing like mad!

Don’t forget to take the time to check out (and join!) our Facebook Fanpage.

Not only does this show your support for all of our good work, but it is a great way to keep up-to-date with all the exciting Dance4life news. We also put on great pictures and videos of the fun stuff like our events aswell as global news regarding HIV, AIDS and the work and progress of our charities.

We have already got 960 amazing fans, but we hope to make that number much bigger in 2009. Just think what we could do with thousands of people in the group! A voice so great it could no longer be ignored!

Check it out now everyone!! Thank you.