True Global Ties: UCLA Student Offers a Simple but Powerful Concept to Change the World in a Small Way: Buy a Bracelet
This is a guest post from Steven Ng.
Imagine change through e-commerce.
That is the simple but powerful concept at the core of UCLA student Steven Ng’s Global Ties, a new non-profit campaign joining in the fight against world hunger.
When Ng, a San Francisco native and a junior at UCLA, participated in a volunteer trip to Kenya, Africa, he never thought that his experience would inspire him to launch a worldwide campaign against hunger. As a result of his life-altering trip, Ng created the non-profit organization, Global Ties. While on his trip to the African country, he captured footage to create a campaign portraying the Global Ties mission, goals, ideas and spotlighting sobering global hunger statistics.
The Global Ties’ campaign offers visitors to his website an opportunity to purchase three types of bracelets, which Ng himself created: Black Rope Silver Bracelet, Brown Leather Rose Gold and Black Leather Gold. The goal of these bracelet sales is to help feed the hungry worldwide. These bracelets represent the Global Ties theme as they can be wrapped around the wrist with a “G” as the charm to hold the “ties” together.
Ng has experienced the success of a prospering startup through not only his parents’ businesses when growing up in San Francisco, but his own company, Dash Wallets, which he recently launched through kickstarter to help fund his education. He hopes to not only see Global Ties aid with the world’s hunger problems but to eventually expand to take on other global issues including HIV/AIDS, clean water and cancer
Global Ties’ crowd funding campaign can be found on indiegogo.com with current bracelet styles. Every bracelet/necklace is manufactured in environmentally friendly facilities.
Black Rope Silver: Feed 12 individuals. Cost: $9.00
Brown Leather Rose Gold: Feed 24 individuals. Cost: $15.00
Black Leather Gold: Feed 48 individuals. Cost: $25.00
For additional information: http://www.global-ties.org/
To contribute: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/global-ties-help-end-hunger.
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