Children and Youth

 As the mobile donation channel expands across the US marketplace, many nonprofits are looking for innovative ways to leverage celebrity endorsements and mobile donations.  One great example  of how well this new fundraising channel is working is Keep a Child Alive, supported by their main spokesperson, singer Alicia Keys. Ms. Keys now includes a specific appeal for mobile donations during a majority of her current 33 city tour.

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About Keep a Child Alive 

 KEEP A CHILD ALIVE is an urgent response to the AIDS pandemic ravaging Africa. With 28 million already dead, the disease continues, wiping out whole societies, threatening economic infrastructure and creating tragic devastation in the family structure.

Keep a Child Alive provides medical services needed to make treatment possible. Doctors, nutrition, testing, transportation, and treatment for opportunistic infections are all necessary for anti-retroviral treatment to be successful. When necessary, KCA also provides nutrition for its patients.

About mGive

mGive is a service of Mobile Accord, a Mobile Application Service Provider/Cause-Marketing Agency based in Denver, Colorado. We offer the strategic and tactical marketing expertise necessary to successfully implement scalable mobile donation and communication solutions on local and national levels.

SET (Sex-Ed Text) is the fast, easy, anonymous way to get answers to everything you wanted to know about sex, but never asked.

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SET is sposored by Child Family Services Philippines with human resources help from Peace Corps Philippines.

From the MobileActive blog:

Learning About Living is a project by One World UK, Nigerian NGOs, the MTN Foundation, and the Nigerian Department of Education using computers and mobile phones to teach Nigerian teenagers about sexuality and HIV/AIDS prevention.

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From LearningAboutLiving.com

Learning about Living, the electronic version of FLHE, is based on the Nigerian Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) curriculum. The program is managed by One World UK and is developed by Butterfly Works, in close collaboration with Action Health Incorporated, NERDC, Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Health, Education as a Vaccine Against Aids (EVA) and Girls’ Power Initiative (GPI); with input from young people, school teachers and youth workers in Nigeria.

FLHE Curriculum was developed by the NERDC as the National Agency for Curriculum development in the education sector in Nigeria in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education, Federal Ministry of Education and Action Health Incorporated.

Plan recently partnered with Nokia as part of its Youth Media Program. According to the press release, Nokia and international children’s organisation, Plan, have joined forces to use modern communications technologies in Africa to raise children’s awareness of their rights and opportunities. Nokia has provided an initial donation of one million Euros for 2006. The first stage of this new joint effort will see Nokia focus on supporting Plan’s existing media and communications technology projects for Africa’s children and youth. Access to and use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) such as radio, the internet, mobile devices and television is a vital element in helping to tackle poverty and improve the respect, fulfilment and protection of children’s rights.

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Founded over 70 years ago, Plan is one of the oldest and largest international development agencies in the world. We work in 49 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas.

Plan directly supports more than 1,500,000 children and their families, and indirectly supports an estimated further 9,000,000 people who live in communities that are working with Plan.

Plan is independent, with no religious, political or governmental affiliations.

Our vision

Plan’s vision is of a world in which all children realise their full potential in societies that respect people's rights and dignity.

Our mission

Plan works to achieve lasting improvements for children living in poverty in developing countries, through a process that unites people across cultures and adds meaning and value to their lives. Read our mission statement.