"Malawi's Song" Now Online

Last May, Ben Mulroney and Farley Flex visited to Malawi with UNICEF. Now, coinciding with World AIDS Day, a documentary of their experience is available online.

"Malawi's Song" is a 30-minute made-for-digital special that details Ben and Farley's time in the poverty-stricken country. With the entire adult generation wiped out from HIV/AIDS, the population is now made up of children (51 per cent of the population is under the age of 18). Starvation, disease and death are all part of their daily lives.

The documentary introduces us to Naomi, who has been raising her five brothers and sisters since she was 15-years-old when her mother died and her father abandoned them.

Along the way, Ben and Farley, who are also National Ambassadors for UNICEF Canada, visit schools and learn the difference between the traditional muddy "classrooms" and the new facilities UNICEF is helping to build. They attend an "Edzi Toto" (Anti-AIDS) club that is teaching children as young as six or seven about AIDS awareness and prevention.

They also visit hospitals but discover these are not places people go to get better, but where they go to die.

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Visit the documentary's official site to watch and learn more about Ben and Farley's eye-opening adventure.

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