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Gallery: PeaceFest 08
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From a blog post: "Dreams to Reality" August 21, 2008 |
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We began with this somewhat simple idea of creating a celebration for peace, featuring talent, artwork, performances and real life peace workers in an effort to build awareness and generate some donations for real-world organizations. Thank you all for helping us get there! There are so many people to thank. While we expected to close the PeaceFest down at 11:00pm SLT on Sunday August 19, you continued. You continued singing, performing, dancing, laughing and contributing to the cause. THANK YOU. Our total contribution reached way beyond our expectations - $869,718 Lindens. This was something around $3200 US dollars. And while this may not seem like much money to some audiences, for some of our recipients, this will be something useful indeed. Thank you all – from all of us at Peace Train – for making this such a fantastic experience. You will be hearing more from Peace Train… Action: Nine organizations received monetary contributions from Peace Train. The Peace Train Charitable Trust was established. This website will tell you the rest of the story : ) - - maybe you should hop on board the Peace Train...
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Many thanks to the managers of Broadway Live and the many performers... |
One of the organizations we supported - the Coalition for Work With Psychotrauma and Peace, located in Vukovar, Croatia |
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Mine fields in Croatia. |
A peace monument. |
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Terrible need for infrastructure and services. |
The CWWPP team. |
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We had t-shirts! Fabulous greeters on hand to help attendees konw where to go... |
Another organization we sponsored, this one primarily located in Accra, Ghana. |
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The ICCHRA team with some kids... |
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ICCHRA runs workshops on human rights. |
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 Workshops and education, especially for the youth. |
We had fun too : ) Fantastic scripted animations, lights, live music and spoken word. Wow. |
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Another organization we supported; located in Kampala, Uganda. |
MPRTO - focuses on messages, and journalistic freedom. |
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An MPRTO event. |
In Second Life, we had information panels on the organizations running around the clock. |
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This organization is located in Kigali, Rwanda. |
They work with children whose parents were killed in the genocide. |
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Beautiful. |
The future. |
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And let's not forget the talent! SO much live music from many nations...this was at a sim called Woodstock... |
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The Virtual Africa sim was the venue for a number of interviews with represntatives... |
Representatives from Uthango, based in Cape Town, South Africa, and others... |
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Uthango assists women with education and small business loans. |
At the end of it all, Peace Train was able to deliver financial support - in this case directly in Linden dollars to Uthango. |
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