East Africa Appeal: blogging activism – add your voice
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Following my presentation on blogging activism at last weeks Cybermummy conference lots of people have been tweeting me to say; ‘I want to help – what can I do?’
The simple answer is lend us your voice.
We’re building a movement. A movement of people who can help us blog, tweet and Facebook about our life-saving work.
And we need you now.
As the humanitarian crisis unfolds in East Africa we’re looking for bloggers and tweeters to help us spread the word.
We’ve launched a £40 million emergency appeal to get life-saving help to thousands of Kenyan and Somali children who are facing starvation in what the UN has called East Africa’s worst drought in 60 years.
More than a quarter of children in the worst-hit parts of Kenya are now dangerously malnourished, and in Somalia malnutrition rates have reached 30 per cent in some areas, making East Africa one of the hungriest places on earth.
We’re already on the ground distributing water and food and treating children in our clinics.
We can stop this tragedy unfolding, but we only have half the money we need. We urgently need to raise the rest so we can save more children’s lives.
Helping us to spread the word about our appeal can be as easy as a tweet or sharing a link in Facebook. And if you wanted to write a blog post about it we’d be thrilled! (details below).
I was so privileged to talk about blogging activism at the Cybermummy conference and I’m really proud to have already worked with some amazing blogging ladies for both Blogladesh and Passiton.
Every tweet, blog post, facebook update counts – because it helps to spread the word.
Communication has changed – we’re all content producers, we’re all publishers and that means we all have a voice.
You have a voice – and people are listening.
Bloggers kit:
Photographs and case studies: Drop me a line if you want photographs: l.scarff@savethechildren.org.uk; or tweet @savechildrenpr or @lizscarff
Read about the situation in East Africa.
Watch and embed this film on YouTube.
Link to our appeal.
For the latest news follow @Savechildrenpr and @Savechildrenuk
Follow Andrew Wander @AndrewWander who is on the ground right now.
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July 5th, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Hi Liz,
I would love to blog about this I have previously worked with Unicef and covered their twitter take over from the ground in Libya.
I am very passionate about children’s rights and at the moment have my own children’s rights blog under construction.
I would love to hear from you.
Kind regards,
Natasha (Young Not Dumb)
July 5th, 2011 at 3:39 PM
Hiya, Will always retweet and did a blog the other day about Save the Children so will be retweeting it!
Andrea Evans
July 5th, 2011 at 4:26 PM
@Natasha – thanks for your comment and for offering to blog – really very kind. We urgently need to spread the word. Pls DM me your address or drop me a line on l.scarff@savethechildren.org.uk.
@Andrea – I just read your blog – what a lovely story. The dedication of the staff both in the UK and around the world is one of the first things that struck me when I started working here. And thanks for retweeting for us we really do appreciate it.
July 5th, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Hi Liz
Thanks for your DM. I’ll blog about it over the next day or so. Could I have some pics.
Thanks
Milly
July 5th, 2011 at 8:17 PM
I will definitely blog, retweet and Facebook!
Chat soon!
Estelle
July 6th, 2011 at 10:14 AM
@South of the River Mum – thanks so much for blogging for us. I’ll send you some pictures.
@Estelle Box – thanks so much. Every blog, tweet, retweet and Facebook mention all helps us to spread the word, raise funds and in turn help as many people as possible.
Many thanks,
Liz
July 6th, 2011 at 11:09 AM
Very happy to play my little part and write a blog post, it will be the end of the week. I’ll send the URL over when it is done.
Mich x
July 6th, 2011 at 2:17 PM
I have emailed you asking for pictures etc.
Regards,
Thomas.
July 6th, 2011 at 4:45 PM
@Michelle Twin Mum @Thomas Kelly: Brilliant – thanks so much for your support. I’ve emailed over pictures and I look forward to reading your posts.
Thanks,
Liz
July 7th, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Thanks for sending this over Liz, I’ll be aiming to have my post up over the weekend. Can you send me any images over too? Thanks, C.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:44 PM
Hi Caroline,
I’ve emailed you over some images – thanks so much for helping us spread the word.
Thanks,
Liz
July 11th, 2011 at 8:20 AM
Liz – you have already seen this post http://onlydadsonlybob.wordpress.com/ I think it might help if I were to encourage more people to get involved by giving this very page a push by linking to it in a couple of tweets today. Hope this will help and good luck with all you are going
Bob
July 11th, 2011 at 8:38 AM
Would love to be able to help. Could you please send me over some photographs? Many thanks. @welshmumwales