In 2003, Alicia Keys co-founded a charity to help children affected by HIV; two decades later, it has raised $86.6 million and supports 9.3 million children, young people and families in 28 countries

• Alicia Keys, 45, is now a mother of five (two biological children and three stepchildren).
• Motherhood came to her as an adult, but the instinct to look after children was there well before that.
• Long before she had children of her own, she was already caring about children on the brink of neglect.