Tales of Good News
November 25, 2008 at 12:55 pm
A new site of ours has just gone live – The Rose Project -and it’s a bit of a beauty I must say! Check it out and see for yourself how refreshingly different it is to have a charity that is not just guilting you with pictures of starving babies.
The Founder of The Rose Project, Mary Donohoe, made it quite clear in our initial brief that this site was to be about rejoicing in the strength and spirit of the African people. She believes that for too long Africans have been portrayed as passive recipients of our charity; and that is not the case. They are grateful, but they are strong spirited people. Sure, they’d have to be to cope with the loss of an entire generation that HIV and AIDS has brought to that continent.
I loved working on this project because I travelled to Malawi 10 years ago. Of all the African countries that I visited, Malawi was the one that stole my heart. The people are so gentle, so wise, and also so much fun. You can see that in the Kaso video on the site where the kids are so exuberant and full of LIFE! Or watch the story of Granny Banda – one strong woman who is raising her 6 grandchildren alone. In a land of no social welfare, this 64 year old cuts stones with a pickaxe to make money to support her family.
Key Features of The Rose Project Site:
- It’s about sharing the good news – you can see that with the “How Donations Helped” featured prominently throughout the site. Browse the stories in video or text format and I guarantee your heart will be touched.
- You can of course make a donation! There are a range of ways – you can give money or time. Or you can choose to wrap all your Christmas presents in their gorgeous designer wrapping paper. Costs €5 for 5 sheets and every cent goes to fund much needed projects.
- Keep up to date with news by subscribing to The Rose Project’s blog. Or you can follow them on Twitter where they promise to only give you good news. And if you’re on Facebook, there’s also a group.
Like all Brightspark productions, this one came about through the pooling of talents of a range of different people:
- Angel Gonzalez on design
- Jess Kelly on video editing
- Ken Stanley on development
- Heidi Jermyn on additional whizzyness
- Adrian McCarthy of Wildfire Productions for amazing source video material
- Anne Carthy for her patience positivity and good humour
- The Rose Project Team (Mary, Bernie, Niamh) for learning to use basecamp and their patience and good humour
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