John asks Nerdfighters to make candle-of-hope videos for Rwanda (2009)
ask · status: reported back · last event: reminder (2009-03-18) · owner: John and Hank
In March 2009 John asked Hank and Nerdfighters to film short candle-of-hope videos for Rwanda and send them to the Harry Potter Alliance for Candles for Rwanda. Three days later Hank lit his own candle and asked viewers to send theirs.
Told alongside: Hank asks for a Nerdfighter Irish fiddle player for his Irish song (2009)
About: The Harry Potter Alliance, Candles for Rwanda, Rwanda
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-03-15 | asked | John asks Hank and Nerdfighters to film candle-of-hope videos for Rwanda and send them to the Harry Potter Alliance for CandlesForRwanda.org. | Lighting a candle for Rwanda 00:01:52 |
| 2009-03-18 | result reported | Hank answers the candle ask with his own candle statement for Rwanda. | Lighting Candles for Rwanda 00:00:00 |
| 2009-03-18 | reminder | Hank asks viewers to make and send a candle video under 30 seconds, following the sidebar instructions. | Lighting Candles for Rwanda 00:01:45 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2009-03-15 · Lighting a candle for Rwanda — John announces Nerdfighteria and the Harry Potter Alliance will make many videos for Rwandans, posted on CandlesForRwanda.org, some played at a big ceremony in Rwanda on April 7. — 00:01:23
- 2009-03-15 · Lighting a candle for Rwanda — ask: John's steps: get a real candle (his remote control is a stand-in; mind fire safety), film yourself giving name, age and country and lighting a candle of hope for Rwanda, hold it silently 5-10 seconds, send via YouSendIt. — 00:01:52
- 2009-03-15 · Lighting a candle for Rwanda — ask: John hopes Hank and many Nerdfighters will light a candle for Rwanda and send in videos, and says he will too as soon as he has a candle. — 00:02:21
- 2009-03-18 · Lighting Candles for Rwanda — Hank opens with his own candle statement: Hank Green, 28, living in the United States, lighting a candle of hope for Rwanda. — 00:00:00
- 2009-03-18 · Lighting Candles for Rwanda — Hank says that, with the anniversary near, John and he, the Harry Potter Alliance and Candles for Rwanda ask viewers to show Rwandans they are cared for as neighbours, friends, 'one of us'. — 00:00:57
- 2009-03-18 · Lighting Candles for Rwanda — ask: Hank asks viewers to make a video under 30 seconds lighting a candle, saying who they are and holding it for 10 seconds, and to follow the sidebar instructions to send it. — 00:01:45