This adventure sent Travie through South Africa, Philippines and India, to meet with young people who are running remarkable grass-roots HIV and AIDS awareness projects – all of which are supported by the Staying Alive Foundation – MTV’s AIDS charity.

For it’s involvement in projects such as The Unbeaten Track, and idealistic methods of reaching out to the younger audiences while utilizing popular sources such as media influence, the MTV STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION is this week’s Not-For-Profit of the week.

Our mission…

As a global grant-making organization, the Foundation’s mission is to encourage, energize, and empower young people who are involved in HIV/AIDS awareness, education and prevention campaigns.

The Foundation does this by presenting the Staying Alive Awards to young individuals and youth groups who are focused on stopping the spread of HIV and who have demonstrated the potential to become future leaders. The award comes with a financial grant to assist them in continuing and expanding their work, and provides public recognition to inspire others to get involved.

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The first installment is a introduction to the idea of Promos4awareness Monthly Campaigns, and a introduction to the first campaign to join it’s ranks. June marked the launch of the Promos4awareness campaigns, and it launched with a bang; Vegetarian For A Month. This little video explains what I will be doing, and how to go Vegetarian if you so decide to. If you would like to be in a video with me; just contact me and I will gladly make a video with you!

Also shoutouts to everyone who asked for them.

The public to this day have shown me a lot of support, and so has the great bands I have been working with. All endorsed bands have made me feel loved, and so many of the new people I have met through Promos4Awareness have been really amazing, and I can’t thank them enough. The extent of this website is only in the mere beta stages, and much much more is to come with time. I would like to personally thank everyone who is showing support, and has helped me make it this far.

Which is where the campaigns come into place, my way of giving back to the community.

After much consideration, and careful planning, I have decided that the month of June is the launch of the Promos4Awareness Campaigns. As a sign of respect to a few of my fellow readers, I have decided to follow their idea for the FIRST campaign, which will be a challenge for myself. I will be going VEGETARIAN for the whole month of June. We all know my weakness for Chicken Burgers, Pulled Pork, and Bacon, so this will surely be a challenge.

To keep up with this campaign, I will be posting a picture of EVERYTHING I will be eating during the month of June (All meals per day) directly to FACEBOOK via mobile upload. If you are interested, please add me to FACEBOOK if you have not already and follow my campaign. This is promised to be fun, a challenge, and exciting. If you would like to see me post 1 update per day, per three days, or per week of the progress PLEASE let me know and I will get everyone involved.

Please support this campaign and show your support through the month of June! And remember I will always keep you posted on Facebook, Twitter,and  MySpace. So make sure to add those accounts if you have not already done so! I also ask that if you support this campaign, or this website to please repost this, retweet, blog, spread it in any which way possible.
Thank you all SO much!

More Information about going vegetarian can be found here:

ChooseVeg.ca
GoVeg.com
Vegetarian.org

I, myself, work in a building where I use TWO computers all day, in order to do my job. It can easily be done on one simple computer, but we have been provided with TWO. Some people are less fortunate, and it’s time we being them to the front of these operations.

Promos4awareness is glad to introduce to you Power Up Gambia.

Our Vision

Imagine a hospital without electricity, nurses having to tend to patients, deliver babies and set IV lines by candlelight. Emergency surgeries would be impossible. Children in respiratory distress would have no supplemental oxygen from oxygen concentrators. Drugs and vaccines dependent on refrigeration would be ruined. But solar power can change this. That’s the vision of Power Up Gambia.

Kathryn’s Story

In The Gambia, June 2006

At 4 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon, I was startled when the lights came on; the lights never came on after 2 p.m. on the weekends. The adrenaline really kicked in when I was invited to observe an emergency cesarean section – a first for me. When the infant emerged I felt my heart racing from excitement and awe!

After meeting up with her we headed to Rouge Valley for a photo shoot in the forested area which yielded some nice results. It was a quick setup and some testing and learning experiences for us both, but it was all for a fun experience. Expect more photo shoots with Conz and many more models shortly. Promos4Awareness will be shooting with more and more models in the near future.

Expect some fun shoots!

This week I had no research to do what so ever. This not-for-profit is close and dear to me. I have been following this organization for a few years and am always amazed by the amazing work that comes out of Skate4cancer.

Skate4cancer is a Cancer Prevention Awareness organization and campaign which educates the masses. Through knowledge and education youth can be made aware of the ongoing battle with cancer this world has been struggling to fight for years. The benefit of being introduced to skate4cancer is that, if you are a youth or have a child of your own, this organization is IDEAL for them. Skate4cancer educates the youth through concerts (THE CURE IS KNOWLEDGE tour), and a campaign where founder Rob Dyer skateboards across the world to raise awareness in a original method.

What Is S4C?
Skate4Cancer is an organization and is based out of Toronto Ontario Canada, aimed at spreading education about cancer prevention. Over the last 7 years, Skate4Cancer’s founder, Rob Dyer, has travelled across North America sharing his passion for cancer awareness with everyone he encounters. He has had an especially strong connection with the youth demographic through his affiliation with the skateboarding and music communities across the continent. We aim to make Skate4Cancer events free and open to all ages wherever possible.

What is the cure is knowledge tour?
The Cure Is Knowledge Tour is a grassroots initiative that takes Rob on tour with one or two of his favourite musical artists in order to connect with the Skate4Cancer communities across the globe. All of the shows are free and all ages. To date, TCIK tours have taken place only in Canada, but we are looking forward to taking these tours international very soon. If you’re interested in helping to book a TCIK tour date in your community, e-mail inquiries@skate4cancer.com.
 

This week I am going back to the roots and finding a really original and interesting website to feature. I crossed paths with a really interesting website and will be checking out ALL of it’s content when I have a few minutes to sit around and look through it thoroughly.

This week’s featured website is called The Global Oneness Project which is a collective library of people across the world through the power of video.  The team of Global Oneness Project have  been traveling the globe gathering stories from creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world.

You can check out more information head over to the website or read below:

The Global Oneness Project is exploring how the radically simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in our increasingly complex world.

Since 2006, we’ve been traveling the globe gathering stories from creative and courageous people who base their lives and work on the understanding that we bear great responsibility for each other and our shared world.

Our living library of films is available for free from our website, through select broadcast outlets, and on DVD. Through events and educational materials we offer opportunities for people to deepen their experience with the different facets of oneness we are exploring.

We hope that by showing the diverse ways oneness is expressed—in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice—others will be inspired to create solutions to personal and community challenges from their own lived understanding of oneness.

Available in stores now, it’s the first and only biography on the Tennessee five-piece, who are arguably one of music’s biggest new rock acts. This unofficial and unauthorised book is the first to tell their story and details the early years, their explosive debut record, the strident, platinum-selling follow-up ‘Riot!’ and their new-found status as the next major rock act in the world.

For more information about the book head on over to the Independent Music Press website and take a gander! Or enter for your chance to win a copy at RockSound.tv

Human Traffickin. There are more than 27 million slaves in the world today.  Human trafficking is the practice of people being tricked, lured, coerced or otherwise removed from their home or country, and then compelled to work with no or low payment or on terms which are highly exploitative.

This week’s not for profit of the week is the NOT FOR SALE campaign. This campaign focuses on fighting the global slave trade and human trafficking.

Not For Sale is a Campaign of students, artists, entrepreneurs, people of faith, athletes, law enforcement officers, politicians, social workers, skilled professionals, and all justice seekers united to fight the global slave trade and end human trafficking.

The Campaign aims to recruit, educate, and mobilize an international grassroots social movement that effectively combats human trafficking and slavery through “Smart Activism”. It deploys innovative solutions for every individual to re-abolish slavery — in their own backyards and across the globe.

Not For Sale believes that everyone has a skill to contribute than can free an individual living in bondage, and together we can stop human trafficking and end slavery in our lifetime.

Sex trafficking simultaneously exploits both the best and the worst aspects of globalization. The champions of globalization tout the growing ease of conducting business across national borders. Sophisticated communication tools and relaxed banking laws make it possible to exchange assets internationally with ease. Virtual enterprises can operate everywhere and nowhere, making themselves known only when and where they choose.

The shots from tonight’s photo shoot can be previewed below.