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[Dominique Sindayiganza <dominique@baobabconnections.org>]

Baobabconnections - Online competition on youth and HIV/AIDS
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Online Competition ­ Win a trip abroad 

Young and positHIV:
Take part in our third online competition and win a trip to Amster-
dam, the Netherlands!

Baobabconnections project description 

Baobabconnections is a youth project about globalisation for African 
and Dutch youth. Baobabconnections is creating an online platform 
where conscious youth can share information about globalisation. 

Baobabconnections wants to grow into a platform for internet journal-
ism. We are working hard to make the website a place where people can 
find information on globalisation from different perspectives. From 
Amsterdam to Cape Town... We have coordinators in 7 African countries; 
we produce our own content and publish it directly online. It is good 
to see that our online community keeps on growing. We now have 420 
subscribed members from 42 countries. And still we feel that this is 
only the beginning...

Online Competition on youth and HIV/AIDS 

We are encouraging young people from Holland and Africa to get to-
gether on this website and exchange ideas about globalisation. To 
stimulate the interaction on the website, and to raise awareness 
about issues of globalisation, Baobabconnections organises an online 
competition on various themes of globalisation. Our third competition 
will focus on youth and HIV/AIDS. 

In association with the Royal Tropical Institute and Africaserver, 
Baobabconnections is organising an online competition on for perform-
ers on the theme of youth and HIV/ AIDS. The winning team will be in-
vited as performers at a theatre festival at the Royal Tropical In-
stitute in Amsterdam, Holland on December 1st 2002 (World Aids Day). 

The purpose of the festival in Amsterdam is to raise awareness about 
the situation of youth and HIV/ AIDS. 

Baobabconnections wants you! 

This competition is for people who want to perform together on stage. 
So try to find your kindred spirit on this website and let your crea-
tive juices collaboratively flow. Write a song, create a hip-hop rap, 
perform a theatre monologue, beat box, rhyme, flow, spit, step on 
stage and do your thing. We welcome all submissions that can be per-
formed on a stage. You have maximum 10 minutes to do your perform-
ance. 

The performance is aimed to inspire understanding and pro-active com-
passion about HIV/AIDS among young people... As a team in our compe-
tition you have convince the jury about your power of your words, and 
your skills to deliver your message. Be creative! Try to provoke 
questions, raise awareness, and if possible give it all a personal 
approach. 

Baobabconnections invites all young hip-hop artists, rappers, sing-
ers, musicians, spoken-word performers and singer songwriters to take 
part in our third online competition. If you are motivated to help 
alleviate the suffering of people with HIV/AIDS by stepping on stage 
and performing, then we want to hear from you! 

How can you enter the competition? 

This is an online competition. Submissions should be e-mailed to us. 

But first you have to become a member of Baobabconnections. When you 
are logged in, you can enter the competition page and you will see a 
list with all guidelines for the competition. Also you see a list of 
other members looking for a team mate. You can add yourself to that 
list and invite other members to start working together. 

Guidelines for participants 

This competition is open for Baobabconnections members from The Neth-
erlands and all African countries. 

We actually have two competitions for two languages. One for Dutch 
submissions, one for English submissions. 

The English competition is open to Afro-Dutch teams. Teams exist of 
one Dutch member and one African member. 

The Dutch competition is only open to Dutch residents. Teams exist 
out of two Dutch team members. So do not hesitate and start looking 
for a partner online: 
http://www.baobabconnections.org/competition.php 

Deadline 
The deadline for the competition is October 15th 2002. 

Background 

Young people are at the centre of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Every day 
6,000 young people, between the ages 15 and 24 as well as 2,000 chil-
dren under 15 are infected with HIV. Although 1,600 children die from 
AIDS every day at the same time 11,7 million young people are LIVING 
with HIV. HIV is not only a physical condition but it is produces the 
disease that is stigma and discrimination. 

To raise awareness and to dispel ignorant myths around this issue a 
theatre programme will be held at the Royal Tropical Institute in Am-
sterdam between November 29th and December 3rd 2002. 

Please forward this message to relevant organisations and individu-
als. 

For general information, please visit our website: 
http://www.baobabconnections.org 

For specific information about the competition, follow this direct 
link: 
http://www.baobabconnections.org/competition.php 

If you want to subscribe to the Baobabconnection monthly newsletter, 
send a blank email to <subscribe@baobabconnections.org>

Regards, 

Dominique Sindayiganza 
Project Coordinator Baobabconnections 
Keizersgracht 132-I 
NL-1015 CW Amsterdam
The Netherlands 
Tel: +31-20-627-3339
mailto:dominique@baobabconnections.org 
http://www.baobabconnections.org 

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