Twitter Sells Wine to Promote Literacy
Not many know about the Fledgling Initiative by Twitter, the micro-blogging site that everybody loves. The Fledgling Initiative is a Twitter project that makes wine for the benefit of a non-profit organization named ‘Room-to-Read‘ that extends educational opportunities for deprived children worldwide. According to the description on the website: “These wines are being made using some of the best vineyards in California by the acclaimed winemaking team at Crushpad”
A single bottle, “a suave rendition of Pinot Noir produced from top-flight California vineyards,” will cost you 20 $ while a case (12 bottles) costs 240 $ (you also have the option to donate more). This Twitter initiative was announced in October 2009. You can read about an event related to it on the Twitter blog.
“Every case sold will provide approximately 60 local language children’s books and promote education in the world’s poorest regions,” says the Fledgling Initiative website. So go ahead and buy a bottle/case of the finest wine and help the education of poor children in some of the most deprived regions of the world.
You can also follow the Fledgling Initiative on Twitter; it has about 0.3 million followers and appears in about 760 lists. Who bought the bottle of the said wine and when? It was a guy from Brooklyn on 15 October 2009.
The following image is of Twitter staff Maggie Mutgoff at a Room to Read site in India.
Written by Vikas from Vikas GuptaPosted on March 14th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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Getting drunk to stamp out illiteracy?
Ha ha..
Twitter = Wine = Money = Make them literate lol :p
Very interesting information, I could not image, that Twitter involved in such actions.
Hi Guys,
I find it quite interesting that twitter is selling wine to promote literacy. Now “Who Would Have Thought?”
Kind regards,
Sam
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Hmm… Selling wine to help underaged, underprivileged kids in India? It’s pretty controversial but then again, this is what makes the news hyped up!
hey Great stuff! i got a lot of inspiration from this post
i went through this page four times
it is very interesting ….
am learning for social work
Thanks
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this is funny – ask them to give some discount – they will sell more wine – mns better education – lol