Virtually dancing the night away in Second Life
Supporters | 18th June 2008
On Friday 20th June some of our supporters will host a twelve hour dance marathon in aid of War Child. Live acts and DJs will be donating their tip proceeds to us, and there will also be the age old charity collection buckets for people to drop their loose change into.
What makes this event different is that it’s taking place in Second Life, the virtual world where users can create their own version of themselves (an avatar) to explore, buy land, create buildings, make friends, play games and generally live the online version of the good life. About twenty virtual nightclubs will be taking part from around 10am to 10pm Second Life Time (that’s 5pm – 5am British Summer Time), allowing users to meet, have fun and raise awareness and money for War Child.
Hang on a second. “Virtual world”? Does that mean the donations aren’t real?
People can exchange their real life hard cash for the Second Life currency of Linden Dollars, which they can then use to purchase anything from a piece of land to build that long desired condo on or a brand new pair of trainers for their avatar. There’s about 250 Linden Dollars to the US dollar, so it’s fully exchangeable for solid currency in real life. (Or First Life, as Second Lifers like to call it). Virtual money will translate into real money for War Child and our real projects which help real children marginalised by war.
Visit the event page on Second Life to find out more.
Photo taken from ialja's Flickr photostream under a Creative Commons licence.
It was a great pleasure to DJ at this Event and i am really happy about the amount of Lindendollars what was donated for warchild. May it help a little bit and hope such virtual events will have a future!