Serious Request

Every year the radio station 3FM holds it's Serious Request. Serious Request is a project in which they collect money for projects of the Red Cross. Three DJ's live in a house of glass for six days without anything to eat. Meanwhile they play songs requested by people who listen to the radio and those who take time to visit the house, With the requests the listeners donate a certain amount of money that is reliable for the person in question. Furthermore lots of notable Dutch people are helping the project outside the house. There is also an auction held every year.

The project was held for the first time in 2004 and has been held every year since and takes place during the week prior to Christmas. In these years they always had a major project the are raising money for (although the Red Cross is the main coordinator of these projects). In 2004 it was Dafur, in 2005 the children in Congo, 2006 the casualties of landmines all around the world, in 2007 it was the availability of good drinkwater for everybody and this year all the money will go towards 36 million refugees all over the world.

I think it's a wonderfull project so I just wanted to share it with you all. Especially at this time of the year when we all sit cosy in our beautiful decorated homes while 36 million people on this world are either bundled up inside make shift houses or don't even know how much further they have to go before being able to finally feel safe. And not even knowing wether a lot of their loved ones are safe or not.

So I just wanted to spread the word about this great project! They've passed the 1,3 million Euro mark this afternoon and they're hoping to reach 2,5 million tomorrow because then the Dutch government will double the amount.

3FM Fighting!!!!!

You can visit their site at http://seriousrequest.3fm.nl/ of listen/watch their stream at http://www.3fm.nl/page/3fm_liveplayer/cam

Annyoung!!!