Event update
On 2 of March, the Marriott Hotel in Copenhagen opened its doors to the Water and Food Award Ambassador event. Chairperson and founder Tina Lindgreen welcomed a full house of sponsors, ambassadors and potential ambassadors to an evening of hope and passion for life. We heard inspirational presentations on social responsibility from Esben Danielsen, spokesman for Roskilde music festival and Maarten van Engeland, from ISS facility services.
We were treated to world music from the A Call to Peace project (AC2P) who have offered to play at the Award event in October and possibly bring several well-known artists. AC2P has engaged several Hollywood and music industry professionals in their mission to bring a message of peace through their music. The project counts with the support of Dionne Warwick, Jon Anderson, Milton Nascimento, Cara Tower and Eduardo Del Signore among many others. Real World Music (UK), is supporting the creation of this Call by offering the participation of their artists.
Actor Michael Nouri was particularly supportive of the Water and Food Award and recorded a short greeting to founder Tina Lindgreen.Read more here.
Staff from the WAF presented updates on the applicants and organisational status.Read more about the Ambassador event here.
Staff and organisation update
IT has started to build strategies to support future needs from the organisation.
Jacob Gauguin joined WAF as a Manager for IT and has together with Dorthe Hermansen hired in extra forces for funding hardware and developing the IT department. The new forces are Nyahn Kerwhen (Systems Administration) and Jacob Simonsen (IT-strategy contributer). Welcome on
board.
Our online membership and donation payment service is available on dkwebshop (DK), paypal (International).
On top of that WAF is working together with dkwebshop on the possibilities for raising an economy through online services.
Last but not least we are working on partnering up with International hardware and software suppliers, since we are in need of some new hardware for performances around DK.
Application update
After a recent Board decision, the Association decided to arrange the Award ceremony in October 2010. This means that the closing date for applications is 1 June. If you know of anyone who may be aware of a potential candidate for the Award, please forward them this e-mail or send them the link to our website: http://waterandfoodaward.org
Situation update
World Water Day 2010
March 22 is World Water Day read more on our blog.
Unsettling food situation in the US
Unsettling is how President Obama describes recent figures on hunger
in the US: more than one million children regularly go to bed hungry
and 50 million people were unable to buy sufficient food to stay
healthy. Read more on our blog.
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