About us

We are a group of passionate individuals that care about people, communities and the future of the world. Our vision is of a world without extreme poverty. We intend to work in one small geographical area at a time and improve the quality of life of the people that live there. We will tackle health, education, environment, poverty, gender, communications and all the barriers to sustainable development. We will measure our success against the United Nations Millenium Development Goals. Building partnerships with other organisations and undertaking genuine consultation and engagement with the communities we work with are two main guiding principles in our work, along with honesty, transparency and accountability.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Happy Villages Poster Competition

The Happy Villages Poster competition is both a fun way to raise awareness of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17th October and to help Happy Villages achieve our mission.

The brief is to design a poster that delivers the message ‘Working towards a world without extreme poverty, one happy village at a time’ which will be considered for use in future Happy Villages communications.

To register and submit your design, build a fundraising page and upload a digital version of your poster (or take a digital photo of your poster and upload the photo). Use one of the links below to start building your page now and when you have uploaded your design, ask all your friends, family and colleagues to donate to your page. http://www.everydayhero.com.au/happy_villages_poster_competition_under_16_years
http://www.everydayhero.com.au/happy_villages_poster_competition_open

The competition is open between 1st July 2010 and 16th October 2010.

You may download logos for use on your poster from http://picasaweb.google.com/HappyVillages/Logos# if you wish.

The designs may be used by Happy Villages in a variety of media such as t-shirts, banners, web pages, brochures or newsletters. Entry is free and is open to all interested participants, subject to the Terms and Conditions.

Participants agree that, if requested by Happy Villages, they will:
1. supply high resolution digital files; or,
2. if their submission is a photograph of their poster they will mail in the original artwork.

How to win
Happy Villages prize packs will be awarded to two adults and two children who receive the most support through their EveryDay Hero pages in terms of:
a) the number of people who have donated; or,
b) the total amount of funds raised.
by 5pm 16th October, 2010.

The way to win is to ask all of your friends and family members to donate through your page.

Thank you for your support.

Poster Competition Terms and Conditions

Registration and submission will be conducted online at http://www.everydayhero.com.au/happy_villages_poster_competition_open and http://www.everydayhero.com.au/happy_villages_poster_competition_under_16_years between 1st July 2010 and 16th October 2010.

Notification of result

The competition results will be published after 16th October 2010.

Authorship
Each competitor must be able to satisfy the competition organisers that the submitted design is an original piece of work and that he/she is the bona fide author of the design he/she has submitted.

Publicity

Happy Villages reserves the right to publicise the poster competition, any submission, and the result in any way or medium it considers fit.
Illustrations of any design – either separately, or together with
other designs, with or without explanatory text – may be used
without cost.

How to enter

By submitting a digital design, or a photograph of a poster to the competition page at EveryDay Hero. Participants agree that, if requested by Happy Villages, they will:
1. supply high resolution digital files; or,
2. if their submission is a photograph of their poster they will mail in the original artwork.

How to win
Happy Villages prize packs will be awarded to two adults and two children who receive the most support through their Happy Villages Poster Competition EveryDay Hero pages in terms of:
a) the number of people who have donated;
b) the total amount of funds raised.
by 5pm 16th October, 2010.

Disclaimer

Happy Villages accepts no responsibility and disclaims all, or any, liability for any loss or damage incurred by any person, whether directly or indirectly, as a result of postage, delivery or handling of original artwork.

Licence
In consideration for the opportunity to enter the Happy Villages Poster Competition, participants agree to grant royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive licence to reproduce and publish work in all media of expression now known or later developed and in all languages in the winning artwork Happy Villages Australia without reservation including, but not limited to, all intellectual property rights to reproduce and publish any entry and to change and/or reproduce any part of any poster in relation to other promotional activities.

Participants further agree that Happy Villages may publish, in relation to promotional activities, any personal information provided by the artists in connection with their entry including, but not limited to, their name, age, community and State/Territory of residence and warrant that there is no cultural or religious reason or any other impediment that prevents the winning artwork from being exhibited, published or reproduced.