Community / Living Positive
In an effort to give back to their community, VM6 created a platform, "Living Positive"
using their "music with a message" to inspire the youth to make good choices as a
preventative tool in the fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Namibia. In 2007 they
joined forces with a young woman who is living with the virus and travelled throughout 11
of the 13 regions in Namibia. As she told her story, they sang and spoke to over 85,000
youth in schools, prisons and mines, sponsored by PEPFAR, the US President's
Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, in partnership with the Namibian American Cultural
Centre. (Living Positive video).

 

 

Living Positive - Impatient Optimist
In the Bill and Melinda Gates "Impatient Optimist" presentation in Washington DC,
November 2009, the group was recognized for their anti-stigma and prevention work
against HIV/AIDS in Namibia, the project won an award. VM6 was featured singing one of
their A cappella arrangements in the language of Rukwangali, from the Okavango Region
in Rundu. The song "Onane" is "words of wisdom passed on from parent to child... what
you sow in life is exactly what you will harvest... make good choices in life and make our
world a better place." Their picture-story is featured as part of "The Living Proof that U.S.
investments in global health are working!".