For those of you participating in our Dare to Draw challenge, your kids have been dutifully creating drawings everyday for the last month while you sponsor them to do so. Now that the campaign’s wrapping up, it’s time to turn in those generous pledge dollars!
Want a little more info about the Stephen Lewis Foundation? Here’s what they do:
“The Stephen Lewis Foundation was created with the express purpose of putting money directly in the hands of community-based organizations working on the frontlines of the AIDS pandemic in Africa. We support women, children orphaned by AIDS and the indomitable grandmothers who have stepped in to care for them, and sustain associations of people living with HIV and AIDS, who are bravely declaring their status and working to address stigma, educate their communities and press for change.” Read more...
For visual learners (and comic fans), these printables are colourful, entertaining & informative
If your kid is taking part in Dare to Draw, they probably have some questions about their undertaking. It’s great that your kid cares, and luckily the Stephen Lewis Foundation has some helpful tips on how to talk to your kids about AIDS to equip you with the facts to answer those tough questions. For another kid-friendly resource, check out these bright and colourful printables made by the New York State Department of Health. Give ‘em a read for an informative post-drawing activity.
It’s a tough subject to tackle, but we feel caring kids want to know why it’s important to raise funds for this worthy cause.
What is HIV? What is AIDS?
HIV is a virus that lives in fluids, like blood, in your body. The virus stops the body from making T-cells, the cells which fight infections. When HIV has really hurt the body’s ability to make T-cells, a person develops a condition called AIDS and gets very sick. They could die, but they could also get better with proper medication from a doctor, as well as nutritious food and clean water. There is no cure yet, but people living with HIV can live long and healthy lives.
HIV is not easy to catch. You can’t catch it from touching, playing, coughing, sneezing or kissing.Read more...
Dare to Draw starts this Monday! Are your kids ready to wreak havoc on that crayon box?
This mural, called “Breaking the Silence” was painted by Xavier Cortada in collaboration with participants of the XIII International AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa in 2000.
Cortada led 2,000 conference participants in writing their messages about AIDS on small pieces of paper and then sticking them on the background of all the murals he made. (If you look closely, you can see them here.) This mural is 20 feet long and acts as a powerful tool for awareness as well as a record of what the global community had to say about AIDS in every different language.
Dare to Draw calls on kids to help raise money for the Stephen Lewis Foundation to support families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa. Like our Dare to Draw Facebook page and get those little fingers moving for a good cause!
Bunch, the Stephen Lewis Foundation and kids in Africa need your kids’ drawings!Happy 2012! We’re kicking off the new year not with a resolution but with a dare: Starting on Monday, January 16th, we dare your kids to draw a picture a day for 30 days. And we dare you to support their dare by pledging $1 per drawing to the Stephen Lewis Foundation to help turn the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa. This project is called Dare to Draw and it’s something we are doing in partnership with a whole bunch of amazing sites not just to raise money to support families affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa but to support your interest in raising a generation of kids who are empowered to care.Read more...
Can’t get your kids to eat brussels sprouts? Vered Guttman at Slate was convinced she could find a recipe to make her boys, who aside from sprouts eat everything, love the world’s most hated vegetable. The brussels sprout and split pea soup sounds pretty good.
Need something to tide you over before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2? Check out this great art inspired by Part 1 on Flavorwire.
And have you found that your parents’ parenting style made you run in the other direction? Felisa Rogers at Salon says her hippie mom turned her into a consumer. Whereas her mom was “obsessed with composting,” Rogers says, “As far as my parents are concerned, I might as well be Alex P. Keaton.” Totally reminds us of You Know You’re an Adult Child of Hippies When… Read more...
Except they didn’t. They tore themselves away from social media and otherwise went about their day-to-day lives. (What constitutes day-to-day for Lady Gaga, we haven’t the foggiest.)
So Alicia Keys called up some celebri-pals with substantial Twitter followings and asked them to stop Facebooking and tweeting on World AIDS Day. They’ll resume their microblogging ways once the Buy Life campaign hits $1,000,000, which then goes to Keys’ Keep a Child Alive charity.
We actually think Alicia Keys is pretty great. She’s ridiculously talented, not some flash-in-the-pan one-hit-wonder-type, and we sincerely believe she wants to do all she can to support families dealing with HIV and AIDS. She’s also smart; as New York Times columnist Amy Wallace wrote, “(Keys) knows that she’s not alone in thinking that America increasingly treats its celebrities like commodities.” Read more...
For those of you participating in our Dare to Draw challenge, your kids have been dutifully creating drawings everyday for the last month while you sponsor them to do so. Now that the campaign’s wrapping up, it’s time to turn in those generous pledge dollars!
