Month: January 2018

The Racist Cover uses the power of music to fight racism

Stuart Mitchell

Racism needs no introduction. It is surprising, rather unfortunate that this social evil still persists in our modern society. In fact, over the last few years, it has evolved to encompass colour, religion, gender, class and more. Bridge Music Academy, a premier music school in Delhi-NCR has launched a campaign to provide people a platform to counter racism. Conceptualized by Dentsu Webchutney, ‘The Racist Cover’ campaign demonstrates the ill-effects of racism in a simple way. The campaign is supported by Culture Fox, an Indo-European community of art connoisseurs and travellers.…

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AT&T Teams with ‘The Bus’ to Brighten Holidays

Stuart Mitchell

Football legend Jerome Bettis, aka “The Bus,” recently hosted a couple dozen children and their families for a holiday dinner at his Pittsburgh restaurant, Jerome Bettis’ Grille 36. Santa Claus stopped by and Bettis gave gifts of tablets and toys to each of the children.   The party celebrated the success of the third annual Jerome Bettis AT&T Toy Drive. AT&T stores throughout the Pittsburgh area collected thousands of toys this year for the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh to give to children all across the city. AT&T also donated…

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48-hour Hackathon in Sarajevo to generate new tech solutions to combat violence against women and girls.

Stuart Mitchell

Throughout 16 Days of Activism, UN Women reached out to the youth in Bosnia and Herzegovina, asking them to generate ideas for technology solutions that would help prevention of violence against women and girls. At two ideation processes, Ideathons, young men and women suggested 17 ideas that included tech tools such as mobile apps, web platforms, interactive chats, QR technology, wearable gadgets and mobile games that would tackle this widespread problem. The 6 most potent ideas were chosen to be further developed at a 48-hour Hackathon under the guidance of…

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Southpaw creates“Don’t look the other way” Christmas campaign for YMCA

Stuart Mitchell

This is a Campaign I got the info on before Christmas but that got lost in the number of stuff coming through, so I want to apologise to the YMCA and Southpaw but I wanted to highlight this so apologies it’s a bit late. The YMCA are encouraging people to acknowledge the homeless without judging this Christmas, with a new film created by Southpaw. The Tunbridge Wells-based agency created the emotive campaign, using the tagline “Don’t look the other way”, for the West Kent YMCA to raise awareness of youth homelessness…

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New Women’s Empowerment Initiative (WEI) Launches

Stuart Mitchell

Yoga International has launched The Women’s Empowerment Initiative (WEI), a year-long online course designed to empower women to thrive physically, emotionally, and spiritually. This comprehensive course includes 54 workshops led by fourteen women who are leaders in their respective fields of finance, nutrition, relationships, spirituality and more. Registration is now open to all. Participants can begin the course as early as January 1, 2018. Yoga International and host Molly Birkholm partnered to assemble some of the most brilliant humanitarians, entrepreneurs, and visionaries to produce online workshops that provide infrastructure and…

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