Oxfam Novib

Oxfam Novib is part of Oxfam International, a confederation of thirteen organisations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries. They work to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. As a global partner of dance4life, they fund dance4life international and use their contacts to assist with the setting-up of new dance4life countries.

Here Sylvia Borren, the Executive Director of Oxfam Novib, talks about the partnership between Oxfam Novib and dance4life, and what it means to them: 

"Oxfam Novib does much HIV and AIDS work on a national level, and supports our global partner (International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS). However our Global Programme felt that much more investment was still needed in the serious question of how to get large numbers of people actively involved in pushing back HIV and AIDS, and especially in speaking to and engaging young people. 

dance4life is a concept that complements these already existing networks and established institutions around HIV and AIDS. We can therefore reach groups of people who we haven't been able to reach previously. dance4life works successively together with companies, media, celebrities and has a huge magnetism. And the combination of education, life skills training, fundraising, music and dance, works brilliantly. 

The principal way in which dance4life helps achieves Oxfam's goals are by the broadening of support to young people in different countries in pushing back HIV and AIDS. dance4life is a truly positive way to get thousands of youth actively involved. Oxfam strives to build an international movement of concerned global citizens, and dance4life fits perfectly in this goal."