By Wesley Regenbogen
Serious
Request is a Dutch charity/fundraising event that collects Linden
Dollars for a real life project. Every year there’s a different
real life project behind Serious Request. This year’s project is
“Hands Off Our Girls”, which is a project against the sexual
abuse of women and girls in countries where there are conflicts. The
project started on December 13 th, 2014 and will go on until
December 21, 2014.
This real
life project behind Serious Request is interesting, because it makes
people aware of the problems in real life and they collect virtual
money in Second Life and they donate it to the real life project
after the event is done.
During the eight
days 24/7, the DJs that volunteer for this project take requests. But
in return they ask you to donate Linden Dollars for Serious Request. Once you
donated the amount you wanted to donate, the DJs will play the song
that you requested. The DJs
stay the whole 8 days within the Glass House. Every
evening ( Dutch/Belgian time zone ) there is a live artist that
performs at the stage behind the Glass House ( Glazen Huis in Dutch
). But aside that they also have auctions and contests and much more.
All for a good cause in real life.
The sim
that is created for Serious Request is called “sim Limburg3," created and owned by Quistis
Shippe. It’s a
Dutch sim, so the language spoken is Dutch, mostly. But also
if you speak English, they will speak English to you, so don’t
worry about it.
In my
personal opinion, this event and the whole project is awesome and I
will donate the Linden Dollars that I get from this article and an
interview that I will be doing with the creators of the event. Although
this is a very well known event by the Dutch residents in Second
Life, I hope that more people get to know this event and the project
behind it.
You can
find the Glass House and the Serious Request location here :
The
website of Serious Request is only available in Dutch, though, it can
be found at :
http://www.seriousrequestsl.nl/A full list of the team behind Serious Request can be found here : http://www.seriousrequestsl.nl/organisatie/
Wesley Regenbogen
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