F2F empowers people to help themselves by building strong relationships and judiciously using small grants. This August, the Kang’oma community in Malawi coordinated 55 chiefs, youth groups, and many others to conduct its first census. One result — 60% of its residents have no education at all.

We believe education is a vehicle for learning, much like cars are vehicles for travel. Our goal is to develop a mindset that can flourish on being used. At our community center school for the poorest children in Battambang, Cambodia, volunteer Tao Li uses song to enliven the act of learning English. Singing helps with pronunciation, too!

In December, a group of athletes from Crossfit Zurich and their supporters will push themselves physically and mentally in the "24 workouts in 24 hours" event to raise funds for the Kang'oma Youth Group in Malawi.

In October Face-to-Face AIDS faced the devastating loss of Beatrice, one of our members in our Malawi Ticket to Success program. Just 16 years old, Beatrice died on Sunday October 9, 2011.

We raised close to $50,000 for our new community center for people suffering from HIV and poverty in Siem Reap, Cambodia at our first ever gala event in the Grand Room at the Open Center on 30th Street and Madison Avenue.