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Sunday, November 4th, 2007 Sound Aid Gets Heifer Write Up
We were very fortunate at Sound Aid to get a write up in
the latest Heifer International newsletter! Entitled Moo-sic
on the Web, it talks a little about the history
of Sound Aid, what we are about and where we are going. Many thanks
to Marise Nazzaro for sorting this out for us. Check it out!
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 Love in a Box - Operation Christmas Child
Operation
Christmas Child is the world's largest children's Christmas
project. Since 1990 the project has brought the joy of Christmas
to more than 47 million boys and girls throughout the world. Last
year they sent 1.24 million shoe boxes from the UK to children
in hospitals, orphanages, Internally Displaced Persons camps,
homeless shelters and impoverished neighbourhoods. As we are doing
this in our school, I thought I would mention it here to help
raise awareness. This will be the greatest Christmas present ever.
Thursday, September 13th, 2007 Explore the World of Heifer!
Heifer have put together this really cool
Flash feature that outlines their projects, initiatives, the success
stories and more information from the field. You'll learn what
it takes to help end hunger and save the Earth from first thoughts,
to animal delivery and Passing on the Gift and beyond. Click
here to view the presentation.
Saturday, July 14th, 2007 The Best Of Sound Aid CD is here! We are very proud at Sound Aid to announce
the release of our first CD through CDBaby.com! We hope you
enjoy it and remember that every purchase has 100% of the profits
going towards curing world hunger. You can really make a difference
and help save a life! This CD is also available with worldwide
shipping. Click
here for details.
According to the SOFI report, there are an estimated 820 million
undernourished people in developing countries. At the launch
of the SOFI report in Rome, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf stated,
"Far from decreasing, the number of hungry people in the world is
currently increasing – at the rate of four million a year."
Ten years after the 1996 World
Food Summit, which promised to reduce the number of undernourished
people by half by 2015, there were more hungry people in the developing
countries today than there were in 1996. Meeting the goals of the
World Food Summit would require reducing the number of undernourished
by 31 million every year until 2015.
On a positive note, the SOFI report noted that the proportion of
people suffering from hunger in developing countries has gone down.
You can read the SOFI
report, and news from UN
and FAO
regarding the release of this report.
Friday, March 2nd, 2007 The Most Diverse Music on Myspace!
We
just added a new player to our profile so we can have more than
the standard 4 songs.....Well a LOT more than 4 songs actually.
It just occured to me that our profile must have
the most diverse music on myspace since we try and cover every genre
and every taste! We have over 80 Artists now so theres something
for everyone. Hope you find something new!
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Donations Surpass $1000
Just a quick message to say we have now passed the $1000
milestone on Sound Aid in less than a year. I think this is a great
achievement seeing as this is our startup year. We now have over
80 bands compared to the 20 we had at the beginning. We have also
had more than 14,000 hits on our website. Keep tuned for more exciting
things in the next few months! Thank you to ALL that donated. I
hope this year is even better!
I
have always believed that to cure world hunger we need a "cultural
change" on our planet, especially in our richer Western societies.
Some may call this change in the way we see poverty a revolution.
I'm into promoting anyone who is doing this right now so check out
these guys:
Invisible
Children, Inc. changes culture, policy, and lives through collisions
of poverty and power. The Mission is the ultimate goal of Invisible
Children — the resources, skills, and funds that hit the ground
in Uganda, providing healthcare, safety, employment, and education.
Invisible Children, Inc. believes that changing the lives of people
in underprivileged areas is just as important as changing lives
in the western world. The only way change can come in Uganda, and
other places in need, is to educate and empower the rest of the
world to do something.
Monday, January 15th, 2007 Sound Aid Teams Up With SongMastering.com
Sound Aid and SongMastering.com have teamed up to give
all Sound Aid bands and artists an opportunity to get their EPs
professionally mastered at a discounted price of only $75.00. A
$30.00 donation to Heifer International is included in this price.
An EP is considered to be a collection of 4-6 tracks or 20-25 minutes
of music.
What is mastering and why should I consider having it done to my
recordings?
- Well, the simple answer it will make your recordings
sound better. Since many of us record at home over a long period
of time, many audio imperfections creep into our recordings. A mastering
engineer will give your song an unbiased ear and figure out what
the song needs to bring it back to life. Also, a mastering engineer
will make sure there is a consistency among your tracks as well
as making sure your recording sounds good over a variety of sound
systems.
If you are interested in this service, just fill out this
simple request form and we will get in touch with you, usually
within 24 hours. SongMastering.com will also provide every band/artist
the opportunity to hear a sample of one of their songs mastered
before they commit to purchase. Remember that $30.00 goes towards
curing world hunger! AND as an extra incentive, any artist that
wants to have their tracks mastered will automatically become a
Sound Aid Artist of the Week!
Sunday,
January 14th, 2007 Sound Aid Playlists
You can now enjoy the best of Sound Aid music through our Playlists
section. Many compilations of artists have been put together for
your enjoyment on our Flash Music Players.
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Tuesday,
2nd January 2007
The Facts
Happy new year to everyone from Sound Aid! We just wanted
to thank you for your great support in 2006. Here is a quick message
to show what we are trying to sure.
Across the globe:
- 1 person in 5 lives on less than $1 a day.
- 1 person in 2 lives on less than $2 a day.
- 1 person in 7 suffers chronic hunger.
- 1.2 billion people are starving right NOW.
- Between 24,000 and 30,000 people die from starvation every DAY.
These facts are astounding.
What if everyone who could afford to eat, donated? A small
donation on Sound Aid will work
wonders. You can download great independent music for FREE and save
a life at the same time. Fact.
Sunday,
December 03, 2006 Wake Up - The Truth About
Global Warming
While we continute to help families feed themselves, I just
wanted to bring to your attention another deadly world problem.
Anyone that has seen the DVD An
Inconvenient Truth will know all about it - Global Warming.
WHAT IS GLOBAL WARMING?
Carbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally
by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. This is a good thing because
it keeps our planet habitable. However, by burning fossil fuels
such as coal, gas and oil and clearing forests we have dramatically
increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere
and temperatures are rising.
The vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is real,
it's already happening and that it is the result of our activities
and not a natural occurrence. The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable.
We're already seeing changes. Glaciers are melting, plants and animals
are being forced from their habitat, and the number of severe storms
and droughts is increasing.
- The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled
in the last 30 years.
- Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like the Colombian
Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.
- The flow of ice from glaciers in Greenland has more than doubled
over the past decade.
- At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding
to global warming, moving closer to the poles.
If the warming continues, we can expect catastrophic
consequences.
- Deaths from global warming will double in just 25 years -- to
300,000 people a year.
- Global sea levels could rise by more than 20 feet with the loss
of shelf ice in Greenland and Antarctica, devastating coastal areas
worldwide.
- Heat waves will be more frequent and more intense.
- Droughts and wildfires will occur more often.
- The Arctic Ocean could be ice free in summer by 2050.
- More than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction
by 2050.
There is no doubt we can solve this problem.
In fact, we have a moral obligation to do so. Small changes to your
daily routine can add up to big differences in helping to stop global
warming. The time to come together to solve this problem is now
? TAKE ACTION Here are
10 simpe things you can do to stop global warming and provide
a safehaven for our children and grandchildren (Adobe acrobat needed)
Melissa Etheridge Video - "I Need to Wake Up"
Friday,
November 24, 2006 Can Biofuel Change the World?
As the price of oil increases, so does global interest
in biofuels?fuels derived from plants rather than petroleum. Biofuels
have much to recommend them. They are produced far more cheaply
and easily than petroleum products like gasoline, with far less
waste and damage to the environment....... [Read
More]
Thursday,
October 19, 2006 The
Village Where Pride Grows
GAMPELA, BURKINA FASO ?
The women of Gampela, a small village just outside Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso?s capital, wait for their meeting to begin. They shift
restlessly on the benches they share, talking in hushed tones among
themselves. In the distance, chickens cluck in their coops, donkeys
bray and stray guinea fowl scratch for food in the dry ground. Some
of the women play with the children on their laps, some nurse babies.
All are wearing
the same headscarf on their heads, a symbol of their solidarity......[Read
More]
These guys have done some amazing
work for us, and we do our best at Sound Aid to provide you with
great free independent music. We hope that you discover some great
new artists, find a favourite new song and think we are doing a
great job with the site.
If you want to show your appreiciation,
millions would want to thank you if you make a donation
and help save a life.
Friday, July 14th 2006 How Much Money Would Actually
Cure World Hunger? Answer: $13 Billion
a year my friends.
Sound a lot?
Compare that to what we spend on other things:
Cosmetics in the United States - $8 Billion a year
Ice cream in Europe - $11 Billion a year
Perfumes in Europe and the United States - $12 Billion a year
Pet foods in Europe and the United States - $17 Billion a year
Business entertainment in Japan - $35 Billion a year
Cigarettes in Europe - $50 Billion a year
Alcoholic drinks in Europe - $105 Billion a year
Narcotics drugs in the world - $400 Billion a year
Military spending in the world - $780 Billion a year
(Source - Unicef)
Thats right, we in the western world spend almost as much
money on perfumes each year then the amount needed to cure world
hunger. Do we wanna smell good or end starvation?!!?
And as for drugs and weapons, I ain't even gonna
go there with those figures :-)
Below are 2 real cool posters to
help promote Heifer International. Please feel free to print them
off onto A4 and put them up in your schools, libraries, churches,
places of work etc.
