A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, as well all know. A Spoonful of Sugar Festival 2016 also has links to medicine, it’s a Second Life based event to benefit Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders.
The event will run from September 9th – 25th and the festival organisers are now accepting applications for participation :
Due to the overwhelming positive response to this event we expect the spaces to go quickly and many have already been filled. Spaces are filled on a first come first serve basis.
To learn more about the event, you may go to the home page and watch the video so you can get a feel of what you are getting involved in.
MSF/Doctors Without Borders is thrilled we are doing this and very excited and impressed by our ‘community without borders’ here in SL and how we seek to use our time to the benefit of so many worthy causes.
The website has plenty of information about the festival, about the organisers and about MSF, some of the names will be familiar indeed, for example Harper Beresford is involved as blogger manager and I really need to ask Harper how she manages to fit so many hours in a day because she works so hard for so many Second Life events.
One of the questions the organisers address is why is this event taking place in Second Life, the answer is a good one :
Second Life, a community without borders, seems a perfect platform for an event to Support MSF/Doctors Without Borders.The response we received from people has been overwhelmingly positive. People immediately recognized MSF/Doctors Without Borders and their message really resonates with many in here.
People, with the right motives and intentions, came to us quickly and pretty soon a very strong and talented team for The Spoonful Of Sugar Festival came together. If I haven’t completely bored you silly by now, see our About Us page for more about these amazing folks!
Media people and Magazines, Merchants, Creators, and Builders have come together, and we proudly give you the very best and brightest, and most generous of SL talent for this event and we want you to be a part of it too!
There’s also a blog to follow. although there aren’t many entries posted yet, the blog is likely to get much busier as the event gets closer.
If you aren’t aware of the work of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) then I suggest you go to their website, from the blurb on their about page we learn :
We are Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). We help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from healthcare.
MSF are an organisation that are well respected all around the world, so this is a benefit for an extremely good cause.