Orphans Against AIDS Featured in News Publications:

Washington Post: For This Generation, Vocations of Service
Tuesday, October 14, 2008; B01

Social entrepreneurship, the movement in which people launch nonprofit or business ventures to address systemic problems in impoverished areas, emerged nearly three decades ago and is growing in appeal among young adults who want to help vulnerable people...

In recent years, young people have started Orphans Against AIDS, a group that provides educational funding in a half-dozen countries for those left orphaned by HIV/AIDS; the Genocide Intervention Network, which, among other lobbying activities, funds civilian protection initiatives in areas of ongoing atrocities; and AYUDA (American Youth Understanding Diabetes Abroad), which gives insulin to diabetes sufferers in Latin America.
 

Voice of America: Social Entrepreneurs Changing the World One Person at a Time
Monday, August 25, 2008

That experience inspired Klaber to found "Orphans against AIDS" in 2002. Since then, the non-profit organization has provided education and healthcare funding for children orphaned or otherwise affected by AIDS in developing countries.

Many young people across the U.S. - like Klaber and Staple - are taking on the challenge of becoming social entrepreneurs, by identifying pressing social problems and, using their entrepreneurial skills to develop innovative solutions to change society for the better. Read more...


Harvard Law Today: Student Spotlight--A young entrepreneur builds a start-up to aid the neediest
April 2008

Last January, Andrew Klaber ’09 was invited to Davos, Switzerland, to participate in the World Economic Forum with the world’s elite business, political and intellectual leaders. In a panel discussion about innovations in leadership, Klaber brought his message of social entrepreneurship to the world stage.

“Throughout history, the model has been to learn, earn and then return,” Klaber said. “People in our generation want to do these things simultaneously—they want to learn while they are earning and give back at the same time, because they want to feel that sense of mission.” Read more...


New York Times: The Age of Ambition
Sunday, January 27, 2008

With the American presidential campaign in full swing, the obvious way to change the world might seem to be through politics.

But growing numbers of young people are leaping into the fray and doing the job themselves. These are the social entrepreneurs, the 21st-century answer to the student protesters of the 1960s, and they are some of the most interesting people here at the World Economic Forum (not only because they’re half the age of everyone else).

Andrew Klaber, a 26-year-old playing hooky from Harvard Business School to come here (don’t tell his professors!), is an example of the social entrepreneur. He spent the summer after his sophomore year in college in Thailand and was aghast to see teenage girls being forced into prostitution after their parents had died of AIDS. Read more...

Other Relevant Articles:

HIV Shifting to Less Educated - PlusNews.org

JOHANNESBURG, 18 January 2008 (PlusNews) - AIDS has long been characterised as a disease of poverty that has spread most rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa, the world's poorest region. But a new assessment has found a shift over the last decade in the socio-economic profile of Africans most likely to be infected with HIV.

In 2001 a team led by Dr James Hargreaves of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) looked at studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, mostly before 1996, to determine whether there was an association between education levels and HIV infection. Read more...

'Patient’ Capital for an Africa That Can’t Wait, New York Times, by Thomas L. Friedman

20 April 2007 - Last week, I was touring northern Tanzania when our car passed the small town of Karatu and we suddenly came upon an open field splashed with colors so bright and varied it looked from afar as if someone had painted a 30-color rainbow on the landscape.

As we got closer, I discovered that it was Karatu’s huge clothing market. Merchants had laid out blankets piled with multicolored shirts, pants and dresses, much of it used clothing from Europe, and were hawking their goods. Read more...