Love ‘N Haiti (The World Challenge)
Just this past weekend, I logged into my personal Facebook page and saw information posted about The World Challenge 09. I believe it was posted by the Yele Haiti Facebook page.
Here is a little background on The World Challenge 09:
Now in its fifth year, World Challenge 09 is a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level. World Challenge 09 is brought to you by BBC World News and Newsweek, in association with Shell, and is about championing and rewarding projects and business which really make a difference. READ MORE
They wish to reward and uphold regional projects/business that make a difference to its respective community. Many different locations around the world have been nominated for winning The World Challenge 09 and Haiti (South-South Cooperation’s Project) is among the finalists.
There is a video posted on The World Challenge 09 website with a brief overview.
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South-South Cooperation’s Project:
“We have moved from cutting down trees to transformation of waste into fuel briquettes“ Jean-Yves Jason, Mayor, Port-au-PrinceHaiti is an unfolding tragedy. The first independent country in the Caribbean is now the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Many decades of mismanagement and bad governance have left over seven million Haitians with little hope that things will improve. But from the most unlikely place — the crime- ridden and poverty stricken area of Carrefour Feuilles in the capital, Port-au-Prince – is an initiative that is cleaning up the streets and giving hope to the embattled citizens. A local action force is turning the waste littering the countryside into cheap fuel, at a stroke it’s bringing a kind of normality to the slum as well as meeting local energy needs.
October 06, 2009 in Charlotte, NC while in concert Maxwell said, “…Katrina, Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, we need to show the world that we know they are hurting,” after his Help Somebody performance. A great way to show that we DO know that there are people in these locations that are hurting, is to HELP SOMEBODY and vote for Haiti at this link – http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/2009-finalists-project08.php
When you visit the link, I beg of you, VOTE because it is within your heart to do so.
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DivaMom October 11th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Thank you for sharing! I voted