The totalBarça Project: Contribution #3
On behalf of totalBarça and its entire community, we proudly present our third contribution to UNICEF via The totalBarca Project…
The totalBarça Project: Contribution #2
On behalf of totalBarça and its entire community, we proudly present to everyone our second contribution to UNICEF via The totalBarca Project…
Update: FCB Foundation activities
On September 29, 2012, Central Park in New York City will be the venue of “Global Festival”, a charity concert featuring headliners Foo Fighters, K’Naan, and Neil Young. Happening simultaneously with the United Nations General Assembly, this event aims to bring awareness to the “Global Poverty Project”, an organization aimed at fighting extreme poverty around the world. The FCB Foundation, through their partnerships with UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation, will be present at the event assisting in whichever way possible and setting up audiovisual message boards. FC Barcelona will use its vast media power and channels to create awareness prior to the concert and by attracting people to the event. One cannot simply purchase tickets to the event, but rather spots are earned through direct action. The website for “Global Festival” lists a series of direct initiatives people can participate in to help those living in poverty. The more direct action performed results in more probability one is selected in the ticket draw.
Working towards a better totalBarça
As some (if not all) of you have noticed, the comments to some of the pieces we post are getting, well, a little out of hand. This sort of things makes it difficult for a site like ours to remain credible and respected by readers and other interested stakeholders. We do the best we can with moderation but things slip by every now and again due to manpower and to be honest, we really don’t think it’s a good thing if we have to continually babysit the totalBarça community. Especially, when it’s a community that is supposed to be respectful and for the common love and support of FC Barcelona.
FC Barcelona & UNICEF fund early HIV diagnosis laboratory in Swaziland
FC Barcelona, through their partnership with UNICEF have aided the development of a international quality standards laboratory to test blood samples from infants exposed to HIV infection in Swaziland.
The new facility, situated at the Mbabane Government Hospital in Swaziland, is equipped with high-tech ‘polymerase chain reaction’ machines, which allow the Ministry of Health to test blood samples of infants locally. It has the capacity to test nearly 100 per cent of blood samples collected from infants across the country.
We’ve got mail: Official FCB response to wholehearted Socio
A friend of totalBarca, Sam from the UK, who is also a proud Socio, forwarded us an official response that he received from FC Barcelona’s OAB (Supporter Services Office) with regards to why FCB members were not notified of the new shirt sponsorship arrangement. There may not be clear answers in the following communiqué from OAB, but a special thanks to Sam for sharing it with everyone.
Please note that this information is provided to help with creating and sharing an understanding and not to provide any sort of position.
