Wim Mostrey Engaging Drupal

Music For Life is an event organized by Studio Brussel to support Red Cross initiatives. It took place for the first time in 2006 to aid land mine victims. The main event is 3 radio dj's locking themselves up in a glass house and bring non-stop radio for 7 days, playing requests for a donated amount by the listeners. They only get to drink fruit and vegetable juice and they don't get anything else to eat. The Flemish Government sponsored 100.000 euro and the Federal Government doubled the end result, for a total of 2,4 million euro!

The second edition, which ended on the 24th of December, was all about water:

• providing structural and long-term solutions to supply pure and drinkable water to the most vulnerable of the developing countries like Namibia, Mozambique, Nepal, Rwanda...
• supplying pure and drinkable water to victims of disasters, like those in Sudan and Ethiopia

This year the Flemish Government sponsored 150.000 euro and the Federal Government added 1 million euro, for a grand total of 3.353.568 euro!

On the Drupal-powered portal of Music For Life movies were posted of what was going on the in the glass house, there were several live video streams and users could send in pictures, video and audio of their own actions for this event.

I'm looking forward to next year's edition!