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What they need is just a fair chance of living. We stop being human when we don't care. Summary This initiative of dance4life empowers young people to take action themselves to push back HIV and AIDS. dance4life Kenya needs support to ensure that they can inspire as many young people in schools as possible. Situation There are 1.3 million people living with HIV in Kenya, meaning that they are still contending with a serious AIDS epidemic. But there is good news: Kenya is one of the few countries that show a decline in the adult HIV infection rates. This is due to factors such as behavioural changes like an increase in the use of condoms, fewer sexual partners and the delay of first sexual intercourse. There is also a decline in HIV prevalence among pregnant women, by more than 25% with young pregnant women in both urban and rural areas. Goal The project of dance4life empowers young people with a schools project made up of four parts: inspire, educate, activate and celebrate. Here on Pifworld we are asking for your support for the first part of the schools project, which inspires the youth to participate in dance4life and become actively involved. The tour is a fun, interactive experience that educates young people and energizes them with enthusiasm to take responsibility in the response to HIV and AIDS. The young people who have participated then have the chance to go on and participate in the following three parts of the dance4life schools project. Main Activities We kick off with a tour. This is where each school is visited by the dance4life Tour Team – which is no ordinary team, we're talking dancers, musicians, peer educators and young people living with HIV. The tour is a fun, interactive experience that educates young people and energizes them with enthusiasm to take responsibility in the response to HIV and AIDS. Next they have the opportunity to learn in more detail how to take responsibility by participating in an in-depth program where they learn more about HIV. This includes prevention, sexuality, drug abuse, and their rights. They also pick up valuable skills about negotiation (No means No), communication and decision making, which they can apply in their daily lives. Risks A thorough review is done in each country before the project is chosen to ensure that the external conditions conform. Project risks can be the successful implementation of the project in schools: dance4life overcomes this by creating partnerships with other organisations, schools, teachers, DJs. Most importantly the dance4life schools project uses the language of young people and connects to them!