Dance4life is an international initiative that mobilises and unite young people (13–19 years old) to push back the spread of HIV/AIDS. dance4life aims to have one million participating youths by 2014 as an urgent call to the world leaders to keep their promises around the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).
dance4life was founded in 2003 by two international marketers - Dennis Karpes and Ilco van der Linde - who were struck by the force of the HIV pandemic. They shared a passion to use their commercial expertise to turn this problem around. They envisioned a world united in pushing back HIV and AIDS, with one message: start dancing, stop AIDS.
dance4life has become an international youth movement. Its purpose is to create social change and empower young people to take action to push back HIV and AIDS. dance4life is about the belief that HIV and AIDS can and will be stopped the moment young people have the power to stand up and say no to unsafe sex.
You only take heat when you need to
You only take heat (E) when you need to
And you need to
Come let me brief you
And let you see where greed leads to
And you need to
Inspire the love inside your people
Our people, equal
[For teens oh] knows people, no [spyads]
No more hellfires and please no more gunfire
Dance 4 Life (4x)
Quench we [meable] in thirst
Put them first
And when the floodgates burst
Come inside and we'll keep you strong
We protect the children of this new dawn
We're properly skilled and we fear no storm
And what we're building will persevere long
After the wicked ‘em disappear
Justice, dues and rights gone clear
And the and the youth we have will start this year
And the youth we have will start this year