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Most Important Vote You'll Cast This Week -- Deadline May 10! -- it won't cost you a penny while massively helping FreePlay Foundation reach four million orphans throughout Africa with vital education and safe light by which to read and learn -- and it will just take 15 seconds. Vote Now and pass this along to your network and get them to vote (get all your employees to vote) -- please, please, please take the time to vote for FreePlay Foundation and help them win one million dollars from Twittacause. http://www.twittacause.com/vote-for-a-cause.php -- they are currently #9 -- we need to get them to #1. Why am I helping them? Keep reading.
Chosen from over 100,000 non-profits, red-hot Twitter chose FreePlay as one of only fifteen charities to compete for the prize money. And FreePlay is the smallest of the charities by a factor of ten -- it's David vs. Goliath -- just the kind of race we like to support -- and this money will massively help FreePlay "teach a child to fish" vs. just provide another handout in Africa -- it's about education.
You Don't Need to Join Twitter, You Just Need to Vote -- if you skipped over the first paragraph because you're not a twitter user, please go back and vote -- you don't have to be a twitter user or have an account to vote.
Rory Stear is One of Us -- A "Gazelle" -- founder of South Africa-based FreePlay Energy, they develop and manufacture human-energy powered devices including radios and flashlights (torches). Rory is an MIT "Birthing of Giants" graduate and long-standing practitioner of the Rockefeller Habits. I've personally flown to Capetown, South Africa, and spent time leading his management team through various strategic planning sessions -- so this is very personal! And his firm was one of the original participants in our Master of Business Dynamics (MBD) program. He's a serious student of business.
Nelson Mandela helped them open their first factory -- and FreePlay Energy and their Foundation has attracted a virtual who's who of the business world as supporters. It was through Rory that I had the honor to meet Anita Roddick, the late founder of The Body Shop and the most famous woman entrepreneur on the planet -- and Rory is that one that hosted her visit to MIT for our graduate executive program -- one of the highlights of my life as a business educator. Anita's husband is still actively involved with FreePlay.
Kristine Pearson, Rory's wife, heads-up FreePlay Foundation -- they've helped hundreds of thousands of orphans throughout Africa through the donation of human and solar-powered radios and flashlights -- and Kristine and the foundation have won numerous awards around the world for the kind of charity that multiplies itself and lasts a lifetime through education. Note's Kristine:
Radio remains the most important communication medium in Africa. For six years the Lifeline radio has enhanced the lives of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children by providing educational programming plus practical information on health, farming, and much more. Up to 40 children share one radio!
This prize will also help us light-up Africa. Children can study, read, walk safely at night and guard against dangers. Our clean energy solar-powered, wind-up Lifelights will help end the use of dangerous candles and toxic kerosene.
Vote now and send this on to your friends and networks. You can vote multiple times by using different web browsers. Thank you very much!
Click NOW: http://www.twittacause.com/vote-for-a-cause.php- They're #9 in the navy box.
Please Hurry -- again, the deadline is this Sunday, May 10. Have all your employees vote and send out to your network ASAP. For those on Twitter, send out the following post:
Educate orphaned African girls through technology! Thanks! Vote for @freeplayfound on @Twittacause http://tinyurl.com/dc3vgz -Pls RT.
