Africamix Receives CDs Featuring Songs Celebrating
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Volunteerism From UN International Year of Volunteers (IYV 200)
Sacramento, California—April 9, 2002—Africamix, a
California based nonprofit organization of volunteers serving to
introduce and incorporate volunteer arts and music celebrations into
community-based child abuse intervention and prevention activities,
today announced that it has received the CDs featuring songs about
volunteering from the UN International Year of Volunteers.
"To further promote volunteerism, the songs celebrating volunteerism
with CD-ROMs containing essential information about IYV 2001 will be
distributed free of charge as gift to volunteers for the Africamix
Collective Volunteer Pledge for Needy children festival" said Makuba
Sekombo, Africamix project Coordinator.
Produced for the celebration of the International Year of Volunteers,
Mr. Sekombo said that the album is a good example on how the world
urgently needs effective volunteer programs that foster and encourage
utilizing arts and music celebrations to help make the world a better
place.
Mr. Sekombo also added that he believes the sense of community that
the musicians from 18 countries created with United Nations
International Year of Volunteers 2001 will be duplicated by other
musicians around the world. "We're confident that IYV CDs will be an
important feature that will attract a new group of volunteers to the
Africamix Collective Volunteer Pledge For Needy Children festival,"
said Mr. Sekombo. "We believe the ability to offer free CDs featuring
songs about volunteering will help in a more useful way the
volunteer-organized and oriented festival designed to help combat
child abuse and neglect."
The Africamix collective volunteer pledge festival, which UNICEF
Africa has been named primary beneficiary, will commence its global
tour in California in June. Hosts for the 20-country tour include
Canada in July; England and France in August; Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya
and Ethiopia in September; Zambia, Mozambique, Madagascar and South
Africa in October; Botswana, Angola, Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo and
Senegal in November and Mali, Sierra-Leone and Nigeria in December.
For more information on the IYV album or Africamix Collective
Volunteer Pledge for Needy Children, visit their Web site at
http://www.afrikamix.com.
About Africamix
Africamix is committed to promoting volunteer multicultural arts and
music festivals that provide forums for volunteer guest speakers to
raise public awareness of the ongoing impact of child abuse and
neglect. Africamix remains dedicated to the conviction that keeping
children safe is a community responsibility, and prevention must be a
community task. Every segment of society must be involved, including
artists and musicians
Company Website: http://www.afrikamix.com
About the IYV 2001 Songs Celebrating Volunteerism
In celebration of the Intentional Year of Volunteers, musicians around
the world donated and wrote songs about volunteerism. Many of these
songs are available for you to listen below in Real Audio and several
of them are available in MP3 format so that you can download them and
listen in CD quality. To listen to songs in Real Audio format, you
will need Real Player which you can download for free. The MP3 files
are zipped up in WinZip format and you can download the popular WinAmp
to listen to the songs.
Company Website: http://www.iyv2001.org/iyv_eng/world/creativity/songs/index.htm
Press Release Press Contact:
Makuba Sekombo
Project Coordinator
E-mail: mak...@africamix.com
Voice: 916-362-3124