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Bo M. Karlsson Video

AmyThePro — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:53:40 +0000

This is the other project we were working on last time we were in Nepal– a piece for the Bo M. Karlsson foundation to use for fundraising. It was an amazing experience working with them. The founder, Sonnia Karlsson, created the foundation in the name of her late husband who loved to do good in the world. After this death, Sonnia went out looking for how she could do capital G–GOOD in his name. She went to Nepal and that is where she met Bindu. She is nurse you meet in this piece and the first recipient of a Bo. M. Karlsson scholarship. It allowed her to finish nursing school. She is a serious power house, along with all the other recipients.

The BMKF pays for women in Nepal to go to college. It is THE ONLY NGO doing this. Less than 3% of women in Nepal go to college. Pretty amazing. Having all of the BMKF recipients in the same room together to film these interviews was such a trip. You could seriously feel the empowerment. The Bo M. Karlsson–doing really good work. Support them!

The Radio Show Download Link

squire — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:39:56 +0000

You can navigate to this link to download the radio interview about Girlworld that Amy had bit more than a week ago. It’s a 25MB MP3 file that once you download it should play just fine on iTunes or whatever media player you have. Just holler if you want to hear it and can’t make it work.

Pass it on if you like it.

Thanks, Friends and Neighbors!

squire — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:03:08 +0000

On Sunday we had our “Baking a Difference” Girlworld Fundraiser Afternoon Tea and Mixer, and it was a huge success!

We want to send HUGE thanks to Liv, who masterminded, orchestrated and alchemied this event, and to Gina and Seth who hosted. You guys rule!

Liv shows off the star of her show, the Pear Ginger Cheesecake. It was uproariously good (We know where you can get one, and help Girlworld while you’re at it, hint, hint!).

Liv baked a ton of delicious desserts. From memory (left to right): Fig tarte, Pear Ginger Cheesecake, French Buttercake with pear, Almond poundcake, and in the middle, almondy shortbread cookies and gluten-free yum-yum crisps. We and others fleshed out the table with some other goodies, and there was wine and tea and coffee and …

O figs!

We put together some party favors (mainly gift cards, so you can gift people a donation to Girlworld if you like. If you’d like some, just holler, perhaps there are some gift-giving occasions coming up on your calendar? All tax deductible of course!)

Amy and I got kind of dolled up, and talked a bit to the assembled hordes, then we screened our 20 minute cut.

Bunches of lovely people, enjoying our film.

It was a really buoying event for us. Total proceeds from this event as of now are just under $1000! We are thrilled and grateful!

We’ve been planning to return to Nepal for a second round of filming in early 2011, and that money (and maybe even more importantly the support) is going to make a huge difference in our ability to do our jobs well during that trip.

Thank you all!

A Girl Story (From Elsewhere)

squire — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 08:25:39 +0000

Something interesting from some colleagues (that we don’t know, yet).

A screenshot from the innovative story of "Tarla"

Go and visit the site.
We’d love to hear your thoughts about this. Catch “A Girl Story” also on Facebook.

Confirmation Screen. Sigh.

squire — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:35:47 +0000

And now, it’s off to the post office… Wish us luck!