Corporate Citizenship - AIDS/HIV

Dance4Life

On 25th November 2006, TRG International sponsored Vietnam’s first ever Dance4Life event, organised by the World Population Foundation in partnership with the US Embassy.

The event was part of the international Dance4Life programme organised in 11 countries with the worldwide participation of over 100,000 young people. Dance4Life, the youth branch of the World AIDS Campaign, provides a platform for youngsters to positively engage in the fight against HIV/AIDS through the power of dance, music and performance.

“We are proud to be the sponsor of Vietnam’s very first Dance4Life event”, said Lorien Hamilton, Operations Director of TRG International. “This is a very meaningful and innovative programme aimed at changing behaviour by involving young people. We stand alongside Dance4Life in the global fight against HIV/AIDS and hope we can help bring this clear statement of hope”.

Organised to mark World Aids Day, the Dance4Life Vietnam event represented the culmination of hours of hard work for the 500 students who had participated in the Dance4Life Vietnam Schools Project over the previous month. During this project, students attended five exhilarating and energetic workshops in which HIV/AIDS education was combined with music, dance and real life stories of people living with HIV. The reactions of the students were enthusiastic, heartwarming and moving.

As well as sponsoring Dance4Life, TRG also supplies the World Population Foundation worldwide with software and related services at preferential rates.

DKT International

DKT is a US-based NGO engaged in “social marketing”, i.e. the promotion and facilitation of family planning in developing countries in order to lower the incidence of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Social marketing makes use of established private sector networks to provide vulnerable sectors of the community with affordable access to family planning.

DKT’s Vietnam programme began in 1993 and its low-price OK brand condoms are now sold across all the country’s 64 provinces.

TRG International supports DKT’s operations all over the world by providing discounted software applications and IT support.