twestival local - Tweet.Meet.Give. - March 24, 2011

  Supported NGO: Lake Gardens Women & Children Development Centre (http://www.lakegardens.org)

This year we are supporting a local Kolkata based charity - "Lake Gardens Women & Children Development Centre". Lake Gardens Women & Children Development Centre Kolkata, known as LGW&CDC; is a non-profit organization which works with a center based, integrated holistic developmental approach wherein joyful and remedial educational opportunities for mainstreaming, health care, vocational skills training for income generation are provided to the girl children residing in the targeted slums.

The theme of this year event on 24th of March,2011 is - "Social Media for Good & its benefits". This year we are having an *Adda* (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adda_%28South_Asian%29) aka "Intellectual exchange" on "Social Media for Good & its benefits" with related topic such as Vocational Training,etc and how it can benefit the downtrodden of the society.
Come, join and participate in this "Intellectual exchange"!!

The event is being held at Globsyn Building(http://www.globsyn.com/) with the support of Mr. Romit Dasgupta.
Also Mr. Manish Sonkar of "Spirit Continues",an new age educational company(www.spiritcontinues.com) are primarily sponsoring the event/charity.

This event is supported by "StartUp Starturday Kolkata(Headstart)" & "Webreps"

Its a FREE event, but we definitely welcome any donation towards charity cause for local Kolkata NGO which we are supporting this year. Direct cash donation at the event will be accepted.

WHERE:

Globsyn Building

RSVP:

Facebook:  http://on.fb.me/TwestivalKol2011

Twitter:  http://twtup.com/TwestivalKol2011

Official #HashTag:  #TwestivalKol

For more details, contact: Arjun Ghosh (Kolkata Twestival Lead) @ +91-9007672147; Abhinaba Dey (StartUp Starturday) @ +91-9230060300; Manish Sonkar (Spirit Continues) @ +91-9899681684

Hello and welcome to the Kolkata Twestival blog! We are proud to announce that on March 24th Kolkata will host its own Twestival Local event.

Twestival® (or Twitter Festival) uses social media for social good by connecting communities off-line on a single day to highlight a great cause and have a fun event. Twestival is the largest global grass roots social media fundraising initiative to date. Since 2009, volunteers have raised close to $1.2 million for 137 non-profits. All local events are organized 100% by volunteers and 100% of all ticket sales and donations go direct to projects.

Twestival was born out of the idea that if cities were able to collaborate on an international scale, but work from a local level, it could have a spectacular impact. Over 200 international cities from Buenos Aires to Bangalore, Seattle to Seoul and Hong Kong to Honolulu have participated in Twestival.

Twestival Local 2011 is a great opportunity to bring the community together. The day is about more than fundraising, but all money raised will go directly to a local charity, that means 100% of the funds will be spent in Kolkata. We are still in the process of choosing our own charity, so watch out on Twitter for announcements.

The event will take place in Globsyn Building in Block EP(1st floor),Sector V,SALT LAKE,Kolkata. The charity event is for a Kolkata based charity - " Lake Gardens Women & Children Development Centre". Lake Gardens Women & Children Development Centre Kolkata, known as LGW&CDC; is a non-profit organization which works with a center based, integrated holistic developmental approach wherein joyful and remedial educational opportunities for mainstreaming, health care, vocational skills training for income generation are provided to the girl children residing in the targeted slums.

Our contact details are below. In fact, please get in touch if you can help, DONATE or advise in any way! 

For updates or to get involved, please follow us on Twitter (where else?!) @TwestivalKol, and Kolkata Twestival Facebook Page(http://www.facebook.com/Kolkata.Twestival), and make a note of the date in your diary - 24th March 2011.

Though a little late, we are finally here! We will shortly announce details on the NGO we are supporting this year, the program lined up for you, and the amazing sponsors we have in line.

Details in a while.