Growing up an orphan in Kenya, there didn’t seem to be much of a future for Mully. Facing insurmountable odds, he contemplated suicide at the age of 16. Thanks in large part to faith, Mully transformed his life and became a multi-millionaire business owner.

However, money didn’t fill Mully’s soul. It wasn’t until he decided to give back and begin his new life as a humanitarian that he became truly wealthy. In 1989 he started

In 1989 he started Mully Children’s Family (MCF), a Kenyan-based charitable organization that, since it’s inception, has rescued 12,000 children from horrible situations.

The new documentary Mully tells the extraordinary story of the man known as “Daddy Mully” who has touched countless lives throughout the 27-year existence of MCF.

An exceptionally talented team helped bring Mully to life including writer/director Scott Haze, producer Lukas Behnken, Golden Globe-nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch (Hidden Figures), and Oscar-winning documentarian James Moll (The Last Days) who serves as one of the executive producers on the film.

Also filling an EP role is Paul Blavin. Under his production banner, FOR GOOD., Blavin has executive produced documentaries such as the heartwarming Harry & Snowman and the Oscar-nominated The Hunting Ground, which delved into rape on college campuses.

Blavin recently spoke with Good Celebrity about how Mully came to be.

What is Mully Children’s Family?

“It’s not your typical charitable organization that spends their time publicizing [and] fundraising – which is necessary – but that’s not what Mully Children’s Family has done. They’ve focused on rescuing children,” Blavin said.

“It’s pretty rare that you find films made about organization’s like this.”

Indeed, MCF is in a class all it’s own. Rescuing abandoned African children, two-thirds of which are women (some of whom are pregnant and have been through prostitution and sex trafficking rings), Mully and his wife, Esther, bring them into their home and literally welcome them as family.

“It’s not an orphanage. You cannot adopt these children,” Blavin said.  

“They stay at Mully Children’s Family. They’re part of a family. They’re provided with food, shelter, education. Their school, in national examinations, ranked number one out of 935 secondary schools in their county.”

Currently, 2,700 children are under the care of MCF. Thousands of previous family members have gone on to attend universities.

“It’s a life transformation opportunity for kids that were abandoned,” he said

Funding

Improving the lives of thousands upon thousands of children carries a heavy price tag, but the Mully family, in their own unique way, fund the organization.

MCF is a team project (six of Charles’ eight children are involved) and over time the members transformed the family compound. By planting over 1.5 million trees on the MCF property, they created an especially wet microclimate.

“They have captured that water and used it for agriculture to grow crops that they consume but also export [to Europe],” Blavin said.

In addition to growing certified organic vegetables, MCF also has fish farming, a dairy operation, and poultry.

“They’ve done a tremendous amount to make themselves sustainable without donations,” said Blavin who added that MCF is 30-50% self-sustainable through its agricultural operations, a percentage that he believes will increase upon the release of the documentary.

“With the film that’s coming out and the videos and the music that we’re putting together that will all be part of a campaign to shine a bright light on the incredible work that he’s doing, we believe that we’ll be able to raise the necessary money to invest in the infrastructure at Mully Children’s Family so that they can become 100% self-sustainable,” he said.

“We’re going to expand the greenhouse operations, we’re going to expand the dairy and poultry operations so that this family will never have to take a donation again.”

FOR GOOD. A Good Fit

It was natural that a production company like FOR GOOD. would get involved in this project.

“We are focused 100% on impact and our name makes that clear,” Blavin said of FOR GOOD. “It’s not for money, it’s not for fame, it’s not for ego. It’s to make an impact.”

Going beyond the work of a traditional executive producer and company, Blavin wants FOR GOOD. to accomplish several objectives with this film, including growing the MCF family and funding, and helping the children become self-sustainable members of society.

“We’ll be providing the opportunity to sponsor these children so that a person, a family in the developed world can become part of the world’s largest family by sponsoring one of their children,” he said.

“We want to expand the world’s largest family to all the continents and to as many people as possible,” he added.

Mully: More Than Just a Film

Before any production could begin, the filmmakers sought out Dr. Charles Mully for approval in creating the film (which was inspired by Mully’s book, Father to the Fatherless).

“They’re very methodical. Charles Mully’s very thoughtful. They thought through it and were very discerning but ultimately, thank God, they decided this was something they wanted to do,” Blavin said.

Director Scott Haze, in particular, was inspired by the work being done at MCF.

“It was definitely a passion project for Scott,” he said. “He just immersed himself for close to two years in this project.”

More than 300 hours of footage remains on the cutting room floor, but Blavin said it won’t be there for long. Utilizing the popularity of short-form video consumption on social media, the Mully crew is partnering with Facebook and using its “social good” tool to reach a wider audience.

“We’ll be putting out, through social media, lots of videos that help spread the word and tell the story in addition to the 81-minute film,” he said.

Not only that, but four-time Grammy winner Rodney Jerkins wrote an original song for the film (the singers of which Blavin can’t yet disclose) and many high profile celebrities, Blavin promises, will be joining in promoting the film and bringing awareness to Dr. Charles Mully and the Mully Children’s Family.

“It will inspire people to look at their lives and realize that, if a man whose abandoned at the age of six and has an eighth grade education can go into the world and save the lives of over 12,000 kids and do that so faithfully, that we all can do more,” Blavin said of the film.

“We know we’ll inspire thousands if not millions to take action of their own.” 

Mully opens in theaters in the Summer of 2017!

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On the Thursday, February 23 episode of The Ellen Show, the comedian surprised 41 kids from Summit Academy Charter School in Brooklyn, NY, with four-year college scholarships courtesy of Walmart.

“These students deserve a chance, and thanks to Walmart they’re all getting one. This is almost too unbelievable to be true,” read a caption on the show’s Instagram account. The scholarships, which total $1.6 million, are good for any state university in New York.

Ellen previously had the school’s founder, Natasha Campbell, and principal, Cheryl Lundy Swift, on her program and presented them with a check for $25,000.

Located in a neighborhood where only four percent of adults went to college, the first graduating class from Summit Academy boasted a 93 percent college enrollment rate.

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Little did the 15-year-old know that he’d end up on stage playing alongside “The Boss.”

When Springsteen spotted the teen’s sign (which read “Missed school… now can I play ‘Growin’ Up’ with you?”), the legendary rocker gave him the go-ahead to join him for a duet.

A tech supplied Testa with an acoustic guitar and the two rocked out with Testa leading the band.

After the song, the 67-year-old musician shared a story about his experience with a guitar when he was 15.

“When I was your age I got my first guitar. I brought it home and I realized it wasn’t about how well you played it, it’s how good you look doing it. So, I got in front of the mirror and I tried some different poses,” he said.

At the conclusion of the performance, Springsteen hailed the lad as the successor to his rock and roll throne.

“I have seen the future of rock and roll and his name is Nathan Testa!” he said.

This isn’t the first time the two have met. In 2014, Springsteen invited then 11-year-old Testa on stage in the same arena to sing ‘Waitin’ on a Sunny Day.’

By skipping class, Testa missed out on English, math, and history but he got a priceless lesson in the school of rock.

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The latest recipient of an Ellen good deed was high school English teacher Ekhlas Ahmed, a refugee from Darfur, Sudan. During a recent broadcast, Ellen read aloud from a letter Ekhlas wrote about how she learned English by watching the daytime talk show.

An emotional Ekhlas sat in the audience listening as Ellen read the brief note before joining her on stage.

“I wanted to write it because I wanted to let you know how I felt,” Ekhlas told Ellen while fighting back tears. “I was a senior in college and I was thinking, besides my parents, who was the person that helped me get here? Who was that person? And I couldn’t think of anybody except for you! So I decided to write you a letter.”

When she was 12 years old, Ekhlas and her family fled Sudan for the United States after the War in Darfur led to the genocide of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

In the decade since her arrival, Ekhlas attended school and became an AmeriCorps ESL teacher at Casco Bay High School in her adopted hometown of Portland, Maine.

“It is so important for me to be there for the students and for me to be a role model for them, because when I was their age, I didn’t have someone that was an immigrant from Africa, an immigrant who went through college and graduated, and didn’t speak English but now is in a classroom in front of them, so I wanted to give them that,” said Ekhlas, her is currently getting her Masters in Education.

In addition to teaching, Ekhlas is also an activist and has spoken at the United Nations about the genocide happening in her home country. Finding a creative way to help the people of Sudan, Ekhlas created a calendar, which features her students and facts about their respective homelands. Proceeds from every purchase go towards building a school in Sudan.

Ellen revealed that the calendar would be made available for purchase in her online shop. Then she dropped a real bombshell.

In a joint effort with Shutterfly, Ellen surprised Ekhlas with a check to cover her grad school debt, a gift totaling $22,000.

Ellen spends many afternoons chatting with the most famous faces in the world, but it’s her generous spirit that makes her a good celebrity.

Photo credit: Ellen Tube

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On Wednesday, February 15, Kutcher joined Elisa Massimino, president and chief executive of the the nonprofit organization Human Rights First, and gave a 15-minute speech in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urging Congress to take action against modern day slavery and human trafficking.

“I’m here today to defend the right to pursue happiness. It’s a simple notion: ‘the right to pursue happiness,’ ” Kutcher said.

“It’s bestowed upon all of us by our constitution. Every citizen of this country has the right to pursue it. And I believe that it is incumbent on us as citizens of this nation, as Americans, to bestow that right upon others, upon each other, and upon the rest of the world. But the right to pursue happiness for so many is stripped away — it’s raped, it’s abused, it’s taken by force, fraud, or coercion. It is sold for the momentary happiness of another.”

Outside of from his Hollywood career, Kutcher is co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children, a nonprofit organization that “leverages technology to combat the sexual exploitation of children.”

The Two and a Half Men star also touched on the criticism he’s received online from people telling him to “stick to his day job.” He responded to his critics by telling stories of child rape which he has witnessed on the web.

“I’ve seen video content of a child that’s the same age as mine being raped by an American man who was a sex tourist in Cambodia, and this child was so conditioned by her environment that she thought she was engaging in play,” he said.

“I’ve been on the other end of a phone call from my team, asking for my help because we had received a call from the Department of Homeland Security, telling us that a 7-year-old girl was being sexually abused and that content was being spread around the dark web and she had been being abused and they’d watched her for three years, and they could not find the perpetrator, asking us for help.”

“We were the last line of defense—an actor and his foundation were the potential last line of defense. That’s my day job, and I’m sticking to it.”

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Case in point, the story of Alaska Airlines flight attendant, Shelia Fedrick.

On a flight from Seattle to San Francisco in 2011, Fedrick, 49, spotted an odd pairing of an older man and a teenage girl, who, as Fedrick recently told NBC News, “looked like she had been through pure hell.”

At that time, Fedrick had been a flight attendant for a decade and knew something was amiss. She approached their aisle 10 seats and tried engaging in a conversation with the girl.

“The bruises that I saw on her, her demeanor, her appearance, the way she would not answer me, the way should would always look at him, I knew something was just not right,” Fedrick said.

When the male passenger became defensive, Fedrick whispered to the teen to use the restroom.

“I left a note in one of the bathrooms,” Fedrick said. “She wrote back on the note and said ‘I need help.'”

Fedrick informed the pilots of the situation and when the flight landed in San Francisco, police were waiting at the terminal to arrest the man.

The situation was a case of human trafficking, one that is all too common in United States airports. According to NBC News, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 2,000 human traffickers and identified 400 victims in 2016.

Because of the growing frequency of the crime (which generates an estimated $150 billion for criminals each year), airline attendants are trained to look for human trafficking on flights.

In this particular case, Fedrick did everything right and her advice for others witnessing similar situations is simple: “If you see something, say something,” she told 10 News WTSP.

On the bathroom note, Fedrick added her phone number, which the teen remembered. She stays in touch with her hero of the skies and, according to Fedrick, the young lady is currently attending college.

To learn more about how airline attendants are helping children and promoting human trafficking awareness worldwide, visit the nonprofit Airline Ambassadors International.

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We contacted the folks at SoCal Honda and asked if we could choose an event to attend and see the magic unfold behind-the-scenes.

They literally supplied us with more than 15 different events and places throughout SoCal where they were providing those in need with free gas, treats, and holiday cheer.

Honestly, we were surprised! It’s not like it’s cheap to pay for all those people to travel around and provide so many amazing gifts. We’re thrilled to see real, everyday people bringing happiness to our community.

We caught up with the Helpful Honda Guys as they hosted an awesome event in collaboration with the Boys & Girls Club Hollywood.

More than 150 kids showed up to take part in Holiday-themed activities, which involved decorating treat boxes and coffee cups, making darling little reindeer, and taking pictures with the Helpful Honda Guys’ mascots.

“The things that are cut first in the schools and the budget is art,” said Aide Aguirre, Program Director, Boys & Girls Club Hollywood.

“This is a really nice treat because they get to do something special and it’s for the holidays, and they can share it with their families.”

Belle Cordero, one of the Helpful Honda Guys (or ladies!), said that she loves the community events because she can actually see the benefits of giving back right in front of her.

“We get actually to interact with them, and it’s a lot of fun for us. My favorite part about is this is the kids,” Cordero said.

“How they respond and how they react. To see how excited they get when they see the mascot or even us just showing up, it’s really awesome.”

The SoCal Honda Dealers give back to the community throughout the entire year. Given the spirit of the holiday season, they really go all out to make sure families in need have a joyous time and a reason to celebrate.

During the season, SoCal Honda Dealers give back through the following programs:

Helpful Honda Holiday Treats Truck

The Helpful Honda Holiday Treats Truck brought treats to various events around the community. SoCal Honda Dealers invited their social media followers to submit a favorite holiday event like a family gathering, birthday party, or volunteer event and the Guys in Blue showed up to surprise different fans with tasty treats.

Free Gas from the Helpful Honda Guys

This one is super awesome! Honda drivers were surprised at gas pumps around SoCal with free gas from the Helpful Guys. Seriously – they filled up people’s tanks for free!

Building Gingerbread Homes

SoCal Honda Dealers built gingerbread houses with special needs kids and adults of the AYSO Special Needs Soccer League in Lancaster, and Pomona Valley Workshop; kids in from Operation Jump Start in Long Beach, Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA), the D.A.D. Project in Los Angeles, and Walk With Sally in El Segundo, as well as youth of the LGBT Community Center in Pacoima.

They also celebrated the Holidays with seniors at the Santa Ana Senior Home, Glendale Adult Recreation Center and Our Peoples Care in Victorville.

Free Christmas Trees

For families in need, purchasing a Christmas tree may be a struggle. A tree adds so much joy to the home during the Holidays, which is why the Helpful Honda Guys provided families with free Christmas trees.

Providing Meals to Those In Need

Finally, the SoCal Honda Dealers continued their nine-year tradition of celebrating Happy Honda Days with local SoCal Organizations that help the less fortunate and families and kids in need. The Guys in Blue donates and served food to the Pasadena Union Station, Ocean Park Community Center (OPCC) in Santa Monica, and Anaheim Indepedencia.

In addition, the team built and gifted bikes for the kids of the Boys & Girls Club in San Bernardino, and brought arts & crafts, gifts, and goodies to the kids of the Boys & Girls Club of Hollywood, which is where we got to see the magic. It was such a great time!

Learn more about SoCal Honda’s Random Acts of Helpfulness and for helpful information regarding exact dates, times and holiday events by visiting the team’s Facebook page. To request a Random Act of Helpfulness visit from the Guys in Blue, visit http://www.socalhondadealers.com/help-me-honda.

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Over the holiday weekend, the country crooner-turned-pop star surprised 96-year-old Porter at a family gathering in New Madrid, Missouri.

Video of Taylor arriving to surprise 96 year old Cyrus earlier today after she found out he was a fan! (via Scott Swift’s facebook page) pic.twitter.com/6i13eOlf1A

— Taylor Swift Updates (@1989TUpdates) December 26, 2016

Taylor surprising super fan and WWII veteran Cyrus Porter and his family today in Missouri! (: @Landon_Poore) pic.twitter.com/tFDjowqeGV

— Taylor Swift News (@TSwiftNZ) December 26, 2016

Porter is a huge fan of Swift’s music and has seen her twice in concert (in Memphis and St. Louis) and his adoration of the singer has brought him closer to his many grandchildren.

“Look what she does… she puts on a show no one else puts on. I just enjoyed going to see ’em and her. I would as soon go see her right now as anybody!” Porter told KFVS12.

Now the World War II veteran can add a third live performance to his list. After getting wind of his fandom, Swift visited Porter and his family and performed her hit, Shake it Off, in front of her elderly super fan prompting him to rise to his feet and dance to the tune.

Amazing experience pic.twitter.com/maXUPZSguD

— robert frye (@bert_frye) December 26, 2016

Swift took selfies with Porter and other family members during their Christmas celebration and he showed off some of his WWII memorabilia.

It’s a Christmas Miracle!!! Thank you @taylorswift13. My grandpa was so excited!! pic.twitter.com/1bGlUys38b

— robert frye (@bert_frye) December 26, 2016

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— robert frye (@bert_frye) December 26, 2016

Known for surprising her fans, Swift’s latest good gesture is one that will be remembered for a long time.

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Author Rich Garon knows all about the hardships many face during the winter months as he devotes his life helping to end hunger and homelessness.

Garon spent 25 years on Capitol Hill and switched gears to volunteer and help homeless individuals who live in the woods. He currently chairs the Serve (Outreach and Mission) Committee at the Immanuel Anglican Church in Woodbridge, VA and coordinates the Homeless Ministry.

He wrote the piece about his experience and also took the time to speak with Good Celebrity about his why the winter months are so difficult for those homeless people living in the woods.

Read the interview with Garon and his article, Christmas at a Homeless Camp in the Woods, below.

Rich Garon on Giving Back & Finding a Solution to Homelessness

GC: You mention that the homeless community needs a lot, more than just a few small things. What is the most effective way, in your opinion, to give back?  

RG: The first thing, I believe, is recognizing that a person has become homeless after suffering a series of setbacks. Job loss, divorce, physical and mental illness, are some of the things that can lead to homelessness.

While there are temporary means of providing assistance, such as food, counseling, and helping them find jobs and shelters, the homeless need someone or some group to commit to helping them for as long as it takes to get them back on their feet.

The small things, giving food, blankets, occasional money, must be supplemented by a willingness of individuals and organizations to recognize that a homeless person is a person; they want to feel someone cares and will treat them with dignity and respect. This type of commitment isn’t easy because while there are successes, there are also failures along the way.

Those offering assistance can become discouraged. It takes determination and the recognition that one person or organization is not going to solve the entire homeless problem. Identify where you can help and stick with it.  

GC: Homelessness in our country is a big problem. Do you see any foreseeable solution or programs that can effectively help reduce this problem?

RG: As with so many problems facing us today, public awareness needs to be raised around the problem of homelessness. From that, willingness to do more than what we’re doing has to be generated.

Those woods behind the neighborhood mall could house a homeless camp. People on grates, sleeping in cars, making do with temporary housing from week to week, that is the face of homelessness.

All too often it is possible to think that someone else—the government, churches—are taking care of the homeless.

Truth is, much more needs to be done. Each one of us needs to take the time to ask themselves, their political representatives, their places of worship, their civic groups: what are we doing to address the homelessness problem? And get the children involved; let them see how the problem can impact people and help their generation develop a more determined will to help the homeless.

GC: In your own words and from your own observations, why are the winter months so hard for the homeless community?

RG: While summer in the woods brings stifling heat, the sub-freezing winds in winter are almost unbearable. People can go to horribly overcrowded hypothermia shelters that open at night, or they can stay in their tents or makeshift dwellings, fearful that the few things they own will be taken if they’re not there.

Winter brings with it a constant search for propane for portable heaters. Winters are never without tents catching fire and someone getting badly burned. Winters are not without those with substance-abuse problems passing out and dying in the frozen woods.

Heavy snows can break tent poles, bringing tents down on those within. Those escaping often have to abandon the damp and unusable items that well-meaning individuals and groups have given them.

In addition, winter is often when fewer volunteers venture out. I doubt I’d ever make it through a winter in the woods.

Christmas at a Homeless Camp in the Woods by Rich Garon

There were about fifty people in the woods, behind a strip mall that sits right across from one of the largest outlet malls on the east coast. There were clusters of tents and a shack or two. Looking carefully, I could see the winding paths that led me to another way of life. My first visit was a novelty. My grandson and I had arranged with one of the homeless men at the camp in the woods to bring the group produce from a nearby food pantry. I’ll call him Sam. He was tall and led us to his site, which seemed to be very well organized. We didn’t speak long and he thanked us for the meals our church had brought earlier in the week. The air-conditioning in our car revived us from the stifling heat that hung in the woods that early July day.

A group of us continued bringing produce from the farmer’s market, chickens from Costco, and some gas for the one or two generators that powered some small fans fighting the oppressive heat. We continued this routine for a while and spent time getting to know the men and several women who called these woods home. “I’ll be glad when the fall comes,” a guy named Billy said.

We were all new to helping the homeless, but it soon dawned on us that produce, chickens and gas weren’t really the answer. As we became familiar with the people in the woods, we learned about them and realized their lives were complicated; that divorces, job losses, arrests, addictions, or chronic health issues had led them into the woods. In some cases, events unfolded abruptly. In others, it took a string of setbacks before they claimed the spot on which they set-up their tents. We gave them money at times. It seemed they always needed little things; that is, until we had to shell out $200 to get Randy’s car out of the impoundment lot so he could travel a considerable distance to his job.

As we tried to help, we realized we really didn’t have a plan, so we decided to give money to groups we were told were more expert in helping the homeless. We still visited the homeless; many who by now had become our friends. We took them out to dinner occasionally, tried to interpret undecipherable forms and letters they received from county and state aid agencies and recognized each individual required more help and guidance than we could provide.

Remember how Billy was looking forward to the fall? Well, fall was short-lived that year and winter rolled-in with chilling winds and heavy snows. We brought shoeboxes full of toiletries and other notions. Billy even erected a beat-up Christmas tree. He situated it near a memorial of Christmas decorations dedicated to his twenty-five-year-old friend, Mantu, who froze to death one night outside his tent. Our friend, Sam, who had become increasingly ill, almost died one sub-freezing night when someone stole his propane heater. Such was Christmas that year in the homeless camp.

We were able to get Sam into transitional housing, but his medical condition was beyond what the home could accommodate. He was asked to leave. The snow had been replaced by the brutal heat of July, and his overall health declined rapidly. We tried to get him into a facility, but were told there was a two-year waiting list at most places. We spoke to another agency and they said they’d be pleased to help, but he’d need a fixed address. There was also little help available from non-profits.

We did eventually find a small studio apartment for Sam, and then one for Billy. We schooled ourselves in learning to navigate the bureaucratic tangle of regulations that tried to discourage us from finding out the types of assistance to which they were entitled.

You see, most homeless people don’t have cars to get to assistance offices, and they don’t have computers to complete forms online. They don’t understand the importance of seeking medical help for a problem before it worsens. Many individuals, church groups, and non-profits—while well-meaning—often support competing programs, and local governments provide inadequate funds to address the problem.

Sam and Billy have become family to us, and we’re going to continue taking care of them as family. Who would have thought that could have developed from our initial trip into the woods? There are plenty of other Sam’s and Billy’s who desperately need help, especially this winter. If you would like to help, check out non-profits and houses of worship in your area who work with the homeless. Any amount of time you have, can help those so in need.    

For more information, visit www.richgaron.com, and connect with Garon through Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads. Rich’s book, Felling Big Trees, is available for preorder on Amazon and for immediate purchase on BookBaby.

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Their tours have shattered records across the globe, but for one lucky fan, the biggest U2 show of the year just might be the smallest. That’s right—you and a friend will get flown out for a private U2, dress rehearsal experience. It’s a front row, backstage, VIP experience all rolled into one. You will hear your favorite U2 songs during an intimate performance like no other. Flights and hotel are on us.

Who You’ll Help

Today and every day 400 babies are born with HIV. We can get that close to zero as soon as 2020 if we all act now.

The life-saving ARV pills that prevent HIV+ moms from passing the virus to their unborn babies cost just 30 cents a day in sub-Saharan Africa. When you donate to win a (RED) experience on Omaze, you’re helping to ensure more moms get access to that medication, and you’re helping get closer to the goal of an AIDS FREE GENERATION.

Let’s end AIDS now.

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