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Young people are often seen as the problem. dance4life sees that young people are part of the solution. By getting them involved and giving them responsibility, we instil confidence and start developing the skills they already have to change their society for a better place.
dance4life holds a big biannual international dance event, which links worldwide countries via satellite for a night-long televised dance event. There are guest DJs and performers, celebrities, urban music, competitions, and most importantly a huge dancefloor where everyone dances the drill in unison across the world.
By encouraging your students to get as many people involved as possible, they build bridges between young people of all different cultures across the world, and break down stigmas that are still attached to HIV and AIDS.
By 2014 we aim to unite one million people all over our planet, making a powerful statement of hope. This will attract the attention of the media, world leaders and the general public all over the world: and your students will have made it happen.
The next dance4life international event is on 27 November 2010, the Saturday before world AIDS day. To be kept up to date with the event, including ticket issuing, click here
We want young people to continue using their energy and talents to spread awareness, start fundraising, or run their own campaigns. Agents of change are encouraged to sign up as such on the dance4life website, enabling them to keep us updated with what they’ve been doing, and enabling us to encourage them and keep them up to date with dance4life events, news, games and competitions.
They receive tickets to the biannual dance4life event, and can use the specific agents of change web forum to keep in contact with our community of motivated, positive young agents.
Do you know of young people who are passionate about development? Are they over 19 and able to lead and inspire other young people? Tell them about our development training.
The development workshops are a non-formal system of education that teach about global development and citizenship topics. They put the power to act in young people’s hands by challenging stereotypes, encouraging independent thinking, and helping people develop the practical skills and confidence necessary to make positive changes locally and globally through advocacy, campaigning and HIV awareness raising.
A host of transferable skills which will help in further education, applications for further education, and job applications.
A chance to become a mentor for a group of young activists
References from SPW – a large, well respected organisation
Friendships with like-minded trainers, and the exchange of ideas and campaigns to effect a change
What are the first steps? email your cv to info@dance4life.co.uk
What will it cost? Nothing. The workshops are free, and SPW offers full training, resources and refunds for travel to schools.
What are the commitments? A minimum of three workshops in one academic year. All development trainers are required to submit a full CRB check.
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“This was one of the best days of my life, seeing all those people in all those countries and knowing that we were part of it was so cool. Now I really want to do something to help to make sure that AIDS is not a problem in the future.”
fatima (16) from UK
dance4life sees that young people are part of the solution. By getting them involved and giving them responsibility, we instil confidence and start developing the skills they already have to change their society for a better place.
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We run a yearly competition rewarding the group of young people who raise the most money with a group prize.
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