Our Purpose Driven by a deep purpose to provide caring. We aim to start non-profit organizations, initiatives, and divisions with the sole purpose of shutting them down. When the need for them is over and we have done our job, we celebrate with a #Shutdown Our History On 28 May 2019, the founder, Desmond Kurz had an epiphany of how he could put his purpose of caring at the heart of what he does and start to make a real difference in the world. Our First Mission: Shutdown AIDS The first #Shutdown is Shutdown AIDS. A scourge across the world with many people affected by the tragedy and misery associated with the disease. We aim to bring awareness, education and support to the many with a simple objective - eradicate the disease from our beautiful planet.