What are the campaigns, what is in the #BigStoriesSmallBusinesses?
Take a small A to W quest with Maša and find out!
A. stands for Antonov, Ukrainian engineer who constructed the biggest cargo plane in the world, the famous Antonov! Produced in Ukraine. Mašenjka saw it in Zagreb several years ago, once it landed to pick up a transformer for a
B. stands for Bees. Did you know that if you lay down in a specially designed wooden house (or is it a bed that looks like a small house – you tell us?), where you get surrounded by
C. stands for Carpets. Do you know how old is the tradition of waiving carpets,
D. stands for Donbas. The Eyes of Donbas.
E. stands for Expedition, but not any kind of expedition, a secret expedition with a Tuareg, a Maya, a Viking, led by Oksana and Mary. What is so secret
F. stands for Fashion Patches. A statement you can make with your clothes. With what you wear you can show-out your support for human rights. Different we are indeed but our rights should be the same, right? Watch Olena to tell you how you can show your respect and your support!Enter your text here ...
H. stands for Home. And for the House.
K. stands for Kids Club. In Rubizne. Just 30 kilometres from the conflict zone. A couple of thousand kids can come there to play, learn English and spend wonderful time together. There are 500 more kids with special needs that would love to join them, but they need you to support the Kids Club to open that door as well!
P. stands for Patents. If you have a unique and great business idea, you can register it and protect
S. stands for Sloviansk. Same Sloviansk that was captured by terrorists and then was the first city liberated by Ukrainian Army. Did you know there is a nice Simple Coffee café there where you can enjoy some creative time over a nice, smelly coffee? It also has a great yard where
T. stands for Trees. For 50.000 seedlings of trees that can grow to at least 1000 trees, with some help of thousands of kids in 40 schools of Luhansk region. They want to turn green what once was grey sand dunes in the surroundings of their city. And you can help them, find out how! Trees are precious. Kids are too.
W. stands for WalQlike. What does it stand for? You do not know yet? Quick, go to Spilnokosht
After two months of intensive work with the Crowdfunding Academy team – voilà!
The Spring is here and the twelve teams are ready with their campaigns. The great positive energy and enthusiasm all along the Academy reflected in the great progress of the teams. Maša feels happy! She has done her job, with her comrades from the Crowdfunding Academy, with UNDP Alternative Finance Lab, with Terra Hub and Brodoto from Croatia and with Spilnokosht at Big Idea from Ukraine. Powered by UNDP Ukraine and
Now it is your turn! What can you do? Check out the teams and their videos, find out the answers to A-W quest, follow when they go out with campaigns, support them, share, tell everyone, be their crowd! It feels great, you'll see!
Author: Sandra Vlasic
Alternative Finance Lab (AltFin Lab) is an internal startup, run out of UNDP Istanbul Regional Hub for Europe and CIS