Hello everyone... This is an important moment for me. as a reporter. as a badminton fan. As a human being. We have launched, today, the new Charity Foundation called SOLIBAD - Badminton Without Borders. SOLIBAD stands for SOLIDARITY and BADMINTON And I hope it can make a difference. I won't go into the concept into details (you can read about it on www.solibad.net), but it's all about raising money while playing, having fun and organizing joyful badminton events, and give back the money to noble causes, amongst which helping two orphanages in South East Asia and bringing badminton equipments to Kids in Haiti. Other projects will follow, as this is just the beggining of the adventure. So, I hope that all of you, BC readers, Badminton fanatics, will help us in this project. Everyone can help, somehow. By putting a link on your blog, by promoting our actions, by helping raise funds in your club. This is an exciting time. Maybe Kwun can help us by putting up a banner on BC ? Or put this as a sticky announcement ? We all do this on our free time and we need as much help as we can, to be able help others in the need ourselves. A lot of top players have been amazingly responsive to this project when I told them about it. All of them have agreed to become Ambassadors for Solibad. Pi Hongyan, one of my best friend, is the global Ambassador. Taufik, Koo Kien Keat, Zhou Mi, Nathan Robertson, Marc Zwiebler, Saina Newhal and many others to come are Ambassadors in their own countries and have joined our cause. This is a unique moment for our sport, where all the top stars have come together for one cause, one foundation - SOLIBAD I hope that all the fans will follow and help us as well. If you want to find out why this is so important to me, you can floow this link : http://www.badzine.info/index.php/p.../2384-raphael-qtime-for-me-to-give-backq.html But overall, it's not about me, but more about what's going to happen. What YOU can do to help. Come and join us at SOLIBAD. www.solibad.net
Haiti to get 1000 badminton rackets A very RARE appearances of Badminton News at www.smh.com.au GO GO Badminton Haiti to get 1,000 badminton rackets March 13, 2010 - 7:04AM AFP A thousand badminton rackets will be sent to Haiti to help rehabilitate young people and assist them in overcoming long-lasting traumas after the January earthquake. Collecting rackets will be supported by some of the world's most famous players, including Taufik Hidayat, the 2004 Olympic champion from Indonesia, Pi Hongyan, the world number four from France, Zhou Mi, the former world number one from China, Koo Kien Keat, the world number one men's doubles player from Malaysia, and Nathan Robertson, the 2004 Olympic silver medallist from Britain. The idea is the brain-child of Raphael Sachetat, a badminton writer from France, and was announced today at the 100th All-England championships at Britain's National Indoor Arena. Sachetat, the founder of a charity organisation called Solibad, said: "Most of us know of the therapeutic and social qualities of playing badminton, and helping young survivors in Haiti to play the game can become a very healing way to help re-integrate them into society." Solibad is running the appeal in collaboration with Peace and Sport, founded by Joel Bouzhou, four times Olympic modern pentathlon champion, and, with the help of the Haitian Olympic Committee the two organisations will be aiming to get the rackets to Haitian eight to 20-year-olds. After the earthquake, the Haiti Olympic Committee launched a program called Sports Activities for Young People in conjunction with UNICEF. This supervises 100,000 of the most disoriented young people through daily sports activities and provides psychosocial and educational support. Among the activities are football, volleyball, judo, chess, tennis and badminton. The badminton appeal, called A Thousand Rackets for Haiti, was developed after Sachetat heard through the Badminton World Federation of Peace and Sport's work, and offered to organise the collecting of rackets. © 2010 AFP
Thank you fidget. You can already send us your email with the amount of money you'd like to donate and we can send you a paypal request already Thank you raphael@solibad.net
dear mod, please merge my thread into this thread http://www.badmintonforum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=82487
Lee Chong Wei will give his Tshirt from the All England to auction in benefit to SOLIBAD Stay tuned and log into solibad.net and subscribe to our newsletter to know when it will be put to auction www.solibad.net
hi everyone ! Only 4 more hours to bid for Lee Chong Wei's shirt AUCTION ENDS on Monday, April 5th at 11 AM Paris time (6 PM Singapour/KL time) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280485034735
Only 4 more hours to bid for Lee Chong Wei's shirt . Right now, the highest bid (from EUR 20) is EUR 251. Let's hope more BCers can get involved in this bid. .
Nice. But is there any items which can be used to donate? I can donate some rackets with the proceeds of the margin going to charity. Ie. No profit.
Lee Chong Wei's shirt auctioned for US$436.11. That is great news for a worthwhile charity. Good Job, Raphy! However, it is interesting to note that a hockey sweater worn by Sidney Crosby during the Olympics auctioned for $35,000!! And you can be sure that the money isn't going to charity. http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/ar...-souvenirs-fetching-a-pretty-price-at-auction
Badminton has a looooooooooooong way to go when it comes to merchandising . How they still can't see the potential in merchandise revenue is beyond me. Good you brought up the hockey comparison, wanted to do it earlier as well . Your average gameworn soccer jersey might fetch the amount LCW's went for. Actually there was an auction of dutch premier league jerseys for Haiti last december and pretty much most of them went for more. Let's hope LCW becomes the world champion then this year .
Forgot to add: team Canada hockey jerseys proceedings usually do go to charity (partly a least). Maybe Jonas/JR will come up with something for SoliBad
2011 Calendars! Just saw something sweet . Or at least it looks promising: http://www.solibad.org/actus/94-les...iers-en-vente-ce-week-end-autour-de-coubertin Badminton calendar for 2011, his and her's version Too bad no further preview ... or what size it is. Wonder if anyone bought one at the French Open?
