Leigh Blake
Founder and president of Keep a Child Alive
Mother of India, 8
"If you donate money to Keep a Child Alive [KCA], we guarantee that 100 percent of that money goes to our AIDS clinic sites to pay for antiretroviral drugs for children and their families, because what children need more than anything is their own parents to raise them. You know, we all spend our money on nonsense, when just a small amount can save lives. Think of the power of what your money can do. My inspiration [for KCA] was an African woman, Ann, who came into a clinic in Mombasa, Kenya, that I had funded with proceeds from my first project, Red Hot and Blue. She walked into that clinic, which was then only providing general medical care, and she said to us, 'I'm not leaving until I get the drugs you have for children with AIDS in America.' I knew that that's what I would do, too. In fact, who would I kill to keep my child alive? Ultimately we are the ones, as parents, who must act, because we cannot even fathom the idea that our children should die because there's no medicine available. That's the moment I knew that this is what I had to give my life to."
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