Keep a Child Alive
For full information on our cause, please visit www.keepachildalive.org
The seed of Keep a Child Alive was sown in Kenya in 2002. Royalties from KCA President Leigh Blake's previous fundraiser, Red Hot & Blue, built the AIDS Research and Family Care Clinic in Mombasa. A woman named Anne walked in to the clinic, desperate to obtain the anti-retroviral drugs her three-year-old son Brine needed to survive. At the time the medication's high cost was an impossible dream for most Africans to afford, and Leigh was so moved by this woman and her courage that she decided to pay for them.
Word of the children's desperate need for medication spread among Leigh's friends and colleagues, and soon they were offering to do the same. KCA Director Peter Edge became its first donor, and soon Alicia Keys' passion for the issue drove her to become its first Global Ambassador.
What started as a very personal incident between two mothers has become a tremendous initiative for change. With around 3,000 children and family members on ARV treatment, over 45,000 people under our care, three orphanages receiving funding, and major clinic sites in expansion, Keep a Child Alive is making a direct impact in the lives of so many who need help. Our KCA College constituency allows our work to continue making even greater progress!
The seed of Keep a Child Alive was sown in Kenya in 2002. Royalties from KCA President Leigh Blake's previous fundraiser, Red Hot & Blue, built the AIDS Research and Family Care Clinic in Mombasa. A woman named Anne walked in to the clinic, desperate to obtain the anti-retroviral drugs her three-year-old son Brine needed to survive. At the time the medication's high cost was an impossible dream for most Africans to afford, and Leigh was so moved by this woman and her courage that she decided to pay for them.
Word of the children's desperate need for medication spread among Leigh's friends and colleagues, and soon they were offering to do the same. KCA Director Peter Edge became its first donor, and soon Alicia Keys' passion for the issue drove her to become its first Global Ambassador.
What started as a very personal incident between two mothers has become a tremendous initiative for change. With around 3,000 children and family members on ARV treatment, over 45,000 people under our care, three orphanages receiving funding, and major clinic sites in expansion, Keep a Child Alive is making a direct impact in the lives of so many who need help. Our KCA College constituency allows our work to continue making even greater progress!
Links
Noah in POZ!
Events
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Keep a Child Alive UK Collection Tin Initiative
April 10, 2009 at 6:45am to August 10, 2009 at 11:45pm – London, UK
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Who Gives a Buck? We Do!
March 31, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm – The Bronx
