World AIDS Day in Kenya: Generation Aware! (project) and A Grandmother's Tribe (film)

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

Here is some exciting news for World AIDS Day! ActALIVE (www.actalive.org)-- the arts coalition I founded in 2002, with a number of Kenyan members-- has recently become involved in two projects which we hope will help save lives and be valuable educational and activist tools.

1) "Generation Aware!" is an HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking project created by FAIR Fund (www.fairfund.org), with support from organizations like KAIPPG (www.kaippg.org) , SIDAREC (www.sidarec.or.ke) , Kwacha Africa (http://kwachafrika.interconnection.org/index.htm), the Emancipation Network (http://www.emancipationnetwork.org), and ARYI (www.africaninitiative.org/af). We have just finished (this am!) a grant proposal which we hope will ramp up the work in Kenya. This will have a special focus on handcrafts as a means of livelihood development, and other artforms such as theater for prevention and education purposes.

2) "A Grandmother's Tribe": Filming Starts Today! Asunta Wagura of KENWA (www.kenwa.org) will be among those hopefully interviewed!

http://www.borderlessproductions.com/a_grandmothers_tribe/film.html

http://www.borderlessproductions.com/a_grandmothers_tribe/supporters.html

http://www.borderlessproductions.com/a_grandmothers_tribe/campaign.html There is still time to be a supporter/sponsor!!

"A Grandmother's Tribe" is a documentary film that captures the lives and voices of a select group of ordinary yet incredible grandmothers in Kenya.

The film's goal is to create a global movement to connect grandmothers around the world by giving a voice to the grandmothers of Africa who struggle everyday to care for the tribes of orphans left behind by parents who are victims to HIV / AIDS.

The grandmothers of Africa are the unsung heroes in a society crippled by poverty and disease. The normal cycle of African life is being turned on its head as parents in their twenties and thirties are being killed by HIV/AIDS and hunger leaving behind as many as 30 children in the care of the surviving grandmother. At risk of being left to die alone in their homes, these children have one last stop – their grandmothers' homes and hearts.

"A Grandmother's Tribe" will be released worldwide through film festivals, television and online broadcast mediums. Stay updated to find out how we're progressing in our journey and when you will be able to view the stories of these magnificent women.

With artistic affections and blessings to all, Janet (Feldman, KAIPPG International and ActALIVE, kaippg@...)

[Guest guest]

Dear Friends,

Here is some exciting news for World AIDS Day! ActALIVE (www.actalive.org)-- the arts coalition I founded in 2002, with a number of Kenyan members-- has recently become involved in two projects which we hope will help save lives and be valuable educational and activist tools.

1) "Generation Aware!" is an HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking project created by FAIR Fund (www.fairfund.org), with support from organizations like KAIPPG (www.kaippg.org) , SIDAREC (www.sidarec.or.ke) , Kwacha Africa (http://kwachafrika.interconnection.org/index.htm), the Emancipation Network (http://www.emancipationnetwork.org), and ARYI (www.africaninitiative.org/af). We have just finished (this am!) a grant proposal which we hope will ramp up the work in Kenya. This will have a special focus on handcrafts as a means of livelihood development, and other artforms such as theater for prevention and education purposes.

2) "A Grandmother's Tribe": Filming Starts Today! Asunta Wagura of KENWA (www.kenwa.org) will be among those hopefully interviewed!

http://www.borderlessproductions.com/a_grandmothers_tribe/film.html

http://www.borderlessproductions.com/a_grandmothers_tribe/supporters.html

http://www.borderlessproductions.com/a_grandmothers_tribe/campaign.html There is still time to be a supporter/sponsor!!

"A Grandmother's Tribe" is a documentary film that captures the lives and voices of a select group of ordinary yet incredible grandmothers in Kenya.

The film's goal is to create a global movement to connect grandmothers around the world by giving a voice to the grandmothers of Africa who struggle everyday to care for the tribes of orphans left behind by parents who are victims to HIV / AIDS.

The grandmothers of Africa are the unsung heroes in a society crippled by poverty and disease. The normal cycle of African life is being turned on its head as parents in their twenties and thirties are being killed by HIV/AIDS and hunger leaving behind as many as 30 children in the care of the surviving grandmother. At risk of being left to die alone in their homes, these children have one last stop – their grandmothers' homes and hearts.

"A Grandmother's Tribe" will be released worldwide through film festivals, television and online broadcast mediums. Stay updated to find out how we're progressing in our journey and when you will be able to view the stories of these magnificent women.

With artistic affections and blessings to all, Janet (Feldman, KAIPPG International and ActALIVE, kaippg@...)