The latest news from our team, partners, and supporters.
TeachAids was invited to participate at the 2010 Taste of Silicon Valley, an event choreographed by the Silicon Valley AIDS Leadership Center. The festival featured a vast array of culinary samplers from dozens of the finest eateries in the area along with a live band and other performers. Local beer makers, coffee brewers, and the…
With his shoelaces laced with red ribbons in honor of HIV/AIDS, Blake Haworth ran the Colorado Marathon in Fort Collins to raise funds for the TeachAids development efforts. As a Boston qualifier, the Colorado Marathon is known as the fastest and most scenic marathon in Colorado. The half marathon followed the beautiful Poudre River and…
TeachAids has partnered with EcoArts Tours to help promote HIV and AIDS awareness to local communities, tourists, and sustainable tourism providers. The United Nations has challenged the tourism industry to become more involved with environmental and health-related efforts, like HIV and AIDS awareness. Through their global tours, EcoArts Tours specializes in using tourism as a…
The Burns Family Foundation has graciously gifted TeachAids a generous grant to support the development and dispersal of HIV and AIDS animations in Africa. The Foundation is primarily involved with improving the lives of children through education and youth services. Incorporated in 1957, it provides funding to nonprofit groups, universities, and national charities that contribute…
Over the past year, Lindikaya Ntshinga, co-Founder and Executive Director of the Zazi Health Foundation, has worked with his team to train 40 educators using the TeachAids materials. These “champion” educators will in turn deliver the TeachAids animated tutorials and Educator Handbooks to populations in rural communities. The TeachAids trainings and outreach sessions were completed…
The Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) invited TeachAids to present at their 2010 international conference. The conference was broadcast in multiple centers around the world, including at University of Hawaii (United States), Yonsei University Medical Center (Seoul, Korea), Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan), Shanghai Jiaotong University (Shanghai, China), North Shore Private Hospital (Sydney, Australia), University of California…
Aakankhya Patro, a freshman at Clark High School in Plano, Texas, organized a fundraiser for TeachAids at the Parr Library. She and other student leaders from Clark High School presented information about TeachAids, its mission, and its animated tutorials, to fifty youth and adults. Their passion inspired community members to join the movement and spread…
TeachAids was invited to present at the Cooliris New Year Party, held at the Palo Alto Art Center. Other presenters were authors Randy Komisar of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Dr. Tina Seelig of Stanford University. The event included live musical and dance performances, and had a turnout of several hundred people. TeachAids presented stories…
The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) operates under the division of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India, to manage the AIDS epidemic in India. In January 2010, NACO formally approved the TeachAids animated materials for use in India. NACO has taken the initiative to replicate the TeachAids animated materials locally and…
Dr. Terrence Blaschke and Jeannette Blaschke have presented TeachAids with a gift through the Schwab Charitable Fund. We greatly appreciate their generosity and support. Dr. Blaschke has been a part of the TeachAids Medical Advisory Team since 2006. His dedication towards improving human health has led him to receive numerous prestigious awards, including the Henry J. Kaiser…
The TeachAids animation productions were showcased at a San Francisco event bringing together an array of artists across the Bay Area. The event was hosted by Chillin’ Productions and displayed the work of over 250 high-end fashion designers, painters, photographers, and other artists. The open house trade show included live painting displays by talented painters. Along…
TeachAids is proud to announce its formal partnership with the North America Network of Indian Professionals (NetIP). In the coming year, NetIP will be supporting TeachAids’ efforts to raise awareness among South Asians globally about the fight against the spread of HIV infection in India, to reduce stigma and break the silence on this global epidemic. With…
