We Are The World Blogfest #WATWB

Let me be honest. The last few months have been demoralizing on social media. The amount of anger and negativity, the active need to hurt, discriminate and vilify one another has been shocking. In fighting against the hate, I find I too have become the monster I abhor. And it scares me.

Social media and news in recent times has been filled with hate and negativity. Just as you cannot fight darkness, only light lamps, Hate and Negativity cannot be fought.

You need to bring Love and Positivity forward instead.

I bring to you the We Are the World Blogfest, along with these fabulous co-hosts:

Belinda Witzenhausen, Carol Walsh, Chrissie Parker, Damyanti Biswas, 

Emerald Barnes, Eric Lahti, Inderpreet Kaur Uppal, Kate Powell, 

Lynn Hallbrooks, Mary Giese, Michelle Wallace, Peter Nena, 

Simon Falk, Susan Scott, Sylvia Stein, Sylvia McGrath and myself, Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan.

“We Are the World Blogfest” seeks to promote positive news. 

There are many cases of love and light out there,  stories that show compassion and the resilience of the human spirit. Sharing these stories increases our awareness of hope in our increasingly dark world.

We will link to charities supported by the co-hosts, and you could choose to donate to some of them or add links to local charities you support, so we could all chip in to a good cause if we like.

Let us flood social media with peace and love, and “In Darkness, Be Light.”
The first post for We Are The World Blogfest is on the 31st March 2017. Hope you will join us!

~~~GUIDELINES~~~

1. Keep your post to below 500 words, as much as possible.

2. All we ask is you link to a human news story on your blog on the last Friday of each month, one that shows love, humanity, and brotherhood. Something like this news, about a man who only fosters terminally ill children.

3. Join us on the last Friday of each month in sharing news that warms the cockles of our heart. No story is too big or small, as long as it goes beyond religion and politics, into the core of humanity.

4. Place the WE ARE THE WORLD Badge on your sidebar, and help us spread the word on social media. Tweets, Facebook shares, G+ shares using the #WATWB hashtag through the month most welcome. More Blogfest signups mean more friends, love and light for all of us.

5. We’ll read and comment on each others’ posts, get to know each other better, and hopefully, make or renew some friendships with everyone who signs on as participants in the coming months.

6. To signup, add your link in WE ARE THE WORLD Linky List below.

As a preview, this is the kind of story you can expect to find featured in my site every last Friday of the month this year: the 'actual' wonderful ending to this year's Oscars. 

I am referring not to the 'wrong picture announced by Warren Beatty' fiasco but instead the fact that for the first time ever, the food at the Oscars party did not go to waste after the event, thanks to Indian actress and Global Citizen Ambassador Frieda Pinto who along with the company Copia, ensured the leftover food was hygienically delivered to various communities in need in Los Angeles.

As a result of her efforts, hundreds of people in need got fed with food meant for the biggest movie stars of the world. You can read the whole story here.