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Musicians. We need your help.

19-25 April 2010 is the first ever BuskAsOne week. We are asking you to donate your time and musical talents by taking to the streets to busk for a few hours to raise funds so children like Saviour can go to school in Africa.

In July we will return to Zambia and share stories, photos and videos from the schools to show you exactly how the money you raise is spent.

If you are not a musician then you can still help by emailing, Facebooking or MySpacing your favourite band and asking them to busk.

How do you organise your BuskAsOne?

The two key things are choosing a good location and getting permission to busk from your local council. After that it’s very much up to you. And if you can get fellow musicians involved all the better. Here’s a step-by-step guide:

1. Choose a location and pick a date during our busk week.
2. If it’s not on private land ask your local council for permission.
3. Email busk@learnasone.org and tell us when & where you are playing.
4. Download this poster (PDF) so people know why you are busking.
5. Tell the local press so you can get your piccy in the paper. And try to get it filmed and upload onto YouTube too (tag it LearnAsOne).
6. Busk!

Once you’ve finished collect up the money and pay the money in online at www.justgiving.com/buskasone or send a cheque to this address.

How will the money raised be spent?

At LearnAsOne we only partner with communities committed to helping themselves. Those who have already built thousands of bricks by hand and are willing to contribute skilled and unskilled labour for free. But simply cannot afford building materials such as roofing tiles, doors, windows and cement.

Your funds will pay for the building materials that allow classrooms and teachers’ houses to be constructed at Simakakata in southern Zambia.

The costs

• £5,700 per classroom (target of 2)
• £5,700 per teachers’ house (target of 2)

Have a classroom or teacher’s house named after you

For every fully funded classroom or teacher’s house the busker who raises the most money will be offered the chance to have the building named after them.

Sign up and busk

To sign drop us an email with the date, time and location you’ll be busking so we can add it to the list!

Watch the children of Simakakata show us how it’s done

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