T-shirt Design Contest to Promote Bono Birthday Fundraiser

The African Well Fund is allotment a challenge to architecture a bodice to be acclimated in this year's Build a Well for Bono's Birthday fundraising campaign. The challenge runs through March 15th and the acceptable architecture will be acclimated on t-shirts that will be awash to accession money for baptize projects in Africa.

Schenectady, NY February 3, 2006 - The African Well Fund is aflame to advertise a bodice architecture challenge to advice advance our 4th anniversary “Build a Well for Bono’s Birthday” fundraising campaign. Tagged Design4: BBW4, the challenge requests entrants to architecture a bodice for this year’s fundraiser. The challenge runs from February 3 to March 15, 2006. The acceptable architecture will be appear on March 22nd, World Water Day and the alpha of our Annual Birthday Well drive.

The African Well Fund is gluttonous a architecture that captures our mission, our charge to the ideal that acceptance to apple-pie baptize is a basal animal right, and aswell the spirit of Bono’s activism on account of Africa, decidedly his adeptness to affect others to action. For added challenge data amuse appointment our webpage: http://africanwellfund.org/D4-BBW4.html. The acceptable architecture will be acclimated on t-shirts and added items that will be awash through Café Press. All gain from these sales will account the Birthday Well fundraiser. A T-shirt with the acceptable architecture will be beatific to Bono alternating with the donation totals at the cessation of the fundraiser.

This year’s fundraiser marks the fourth year that U2 admirers accept appear calm to accord money in account of Bono’s altogether on May 10th. The altogether fundraisers accept aloft a absolute of added than $50,000 and accept been acclimated to armamentarium over 40 apple-pie baptize projects in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Angola.

The African Well Fund is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit alignment that was founded by a accumulation of U2 admirers in backward 2002. Since that time AWF has aloft over $145,000, including added than $50,000 in 2005 alone. Proceeds from the African Well Fund are donated to Africare’s baptize projects in Africa. Africare is one of the arch private, non - accumulation accommodating U.S. organizations acceptable Africa. For added advice amuse appointment www.africare.org. The African Well Fund was founded to focus on one accessible goal: accouterment acceptance to apple-pie water. The African Well Fund believes that acceptance to apple-pie baptize is not alone a basal animal charge but a basal animal right.

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