Together We Can Make the World Well

As a Virtuoso Sustainable Member, we are proud to partner with the following Amazing Female Founded Non-Profit Organizations that truly make a difference in the world. For every Wellness & Adventure Retreat planned, La Di Das Lifestyle has committed to donate a percentage to the non-profit of you choice and will give you the opportunity to visit the communities you are supporting during your travels. We invite you to visit the videos and links to learn more, and to also donate from home while we are under strict travel restrictions due to Covid-19.

Keep A Child Alive

Co-founded in 2003 by Alicia Keys, Keep a Child Alive (KCA) is a non-profit organization committed to empowering children and young people with the necessary resources, confidence and opportunities to reach their full potential and live healthier, happier lives. KCA has a mission to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable children, young people, adults and families around the world, with a focus on combating the physical, social and economic impacts of HIV/AIDS.

Working on the front lines with local partners in some of the countries hardest hit by the HIV epidemic - Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, and India, KCA provides comprehensive HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention alongside holistic healthcare services, life skill to success, opportunities and support for vulnerable children and women who have experienced sexual exploitation and abuse.

Over and Above Africa

Created after Founder and award winning Filmmaker, Kerry David, attended a Los Angeles fundraiser for elephants that outlined the total devastation poaching and human/animal conflict (population growth pushing animals into smaller and smaller areas) was having on Africa's vulnerable wildlife.  The presentation she witnessed had been filmed from a drone flying high over Africa's unique landscape (which is how the organization got its name) effectively protecting the animals below with its 360 degree view. The vision for Over and Above Africa is to protect and defend endangered wildlife, educate and support their surrounding communities and to elicit a global community's awareness and involvement.  

What makes Over and Above Africa unique is that the donations and contributions, which fund each project, are filmed and turned into mini-documentaries for members and donors to see and feel their contributions actually working at ground zero. The organizations and people funded by Over and Above Africa can then use the mini docs to bring awareness of their needs to a larger community.

As a filmmaker, Kerry applied her craft to better understand the poaching industry. She pursued a passion that took her around the globe, from the US to Africa and Asia creating the now multiple award-winning film, “Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War.” The film is also the subject of a TED X Talk: "The Last Five Minutes," and takes the viewer with her as she learns about the poaching crisis from the women living on the frontline of this all too silent war. Deciding not to focus on the pain these animals suffer at the hands of poachers, Breaking Their Silence instead reveals the emotional toll these courageous women endure dedicating their lives to these animals, while shining a bright and inspiring light on their intelligence, compassion, strength and tenacity.

It’s a hopeful film created to inspire and motivate audiences to identify their own unique skills that they might bring them to this global issue. You can now rent Breaking Their Silence exclusively on BreakingTheirSilence.com and OverAndAboveAfrica.com and join Over and Above Africa for as little as $5 a month!

FIOH - USA

Everything in life has a story--and the beginnings of Future In Our Hands-USA is no different. In 2000 when Michele Sprada visited Kenya, she had no idea how much the trip would transform her life and that of her aunt, Sister Linda. When Michele returned to the States with news of the need to sponsor a young orphaned boy named Nevil Ochieng, Sister Linda was compelled to help. After all, the head of the orphanage had described Nevil as a bright boy who could excel if only he could afford his school fees. After months of supporting Nevil from afar, Linda and Michele traveled to Kenya to meet Nevil again, only to learn that he had passed away from an infection he contracted from drinking contaminated water. The story doesn't end there...

Since their founding in 2005 FIOH-USA has funded hundreds of projects including: Building wells to provide safe water for the people of Kenya and Zambia:

  • Sponsoring students to attend high school, college and vocational training in Kenya and Zambia

  • Providing monthly transportation to clinics so that HIV positive Kenyans are able to get their anti-retroviral medications.

  • Funding micro-loans to empower Kenyan and Zambian women’s groups in income-generating activities.

  • Providing sanitary pads to female students at Kanyamedha Secondary School, Usoma Primary School and Angelic Ark Centre.

  • Funding life-sustaining agriculture projects in Shabila, Zambia; Kisii and Kisumu, Kenya.

  • Funding a project to improve the quality of education in four Orphan and Vulnerable Children-centered school in Zambia.

  • Funding Angelic Ark Centre in Kisii, Kenya providing for the needs of HIV+ children.

Through the generosity of donors, FIOH-USA is able to provide water, food , health, education and work to our FIOH African partners in Kenya, and Zambia. It is their mission to continue to serve those who need our help throughout East Africa and beyond.

Future In Our hands-USA (FIOH-USA) is a 501c3 organization created in response to the dire needs of the poor in Kenya and Zambia. They are a small local organization, powered entirely by volunteers, and they maintain close personal relationships with the people they assist, to ensure that they know them by name and can support their needs. They communicate near-daily with our FIOH partners in Kenya and Zambia, and travel there periodically (on their own dime, NEVER with funds collected) to observe the programs and the people they’re supporting. FIOH-USA is a part of the Future in Our Hands International Network (FIOH), a humanitarian and environmental action organization with partners in many countries throughout the world.