UBUNTU - THE COCKTAILS!

Africa Programme

On top of our commitment to Fairtrade we'll give at least 15% of our profits to our Ubuntu Africa Programme
Ubuntu is a give-and-take concept and we passionately believe in sharing our success with the people who are the very soul of the company: the farmers and their families growing the sugar cane, and the people of Malawi.
The money will be used to

1. Support the sugar producers and their communities
2. Encourage projects showing real entrepreneurship and creative ways to tackle poverty

Our very first project, which embodies what we will try to achieve with the Ubuntu Africa Programme, is our association with Elod.

Ubuntu cola & Restaurant CO2

HAPPY OPENING : Artistes : Sophie S. , Damien-Paul Gal
Music : Dj RES...TANQUE
EN Collaboration avec Nobel, Artedis, Peugeot Declercq
Ubuntu cola & Restaurant CO2
A partir de 18h30 au 42/46 rue du page 1050 Ixelles

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Ubuntu Is in Da Place... Piknik Electronik

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Ubuntu Is in Da Place... Knal - Fête du progrès

PIXISME by Duke Nhien

Opening Thursday, May 5, 2011 from 18h to 22h
Exhibition from Friday 6 to Sunday, May 29 inclusive
Open Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays from 18h to 20h and Sunday from 11am to 16h or by appointment: 0475 97 27 71
Finishing Sunday, May 29, 2011
Brunch de 11h à 14h Brunch from 11am to 14h

Invité Philippe Lognoul - Peinture à l'huile Asked Philip Lognoul - Oil

Lieu : Abbaye de Forest Venue: Abbaye de Forest
Place Saint Denis - Rue du Curé 2 - 1190 Forest Place Saint Denis - Rue du Curé 2-1190 Forestct, ...) by combining elements clearly differentiated

http://www.pixisme.com/

UBUNTU COLA SUBCULTURE presents: DC SALAS SHOWCASE @ MACLINE DANSAERT

UBUNTU COLA SUBCULTURE present:
DC SALAS SHOWCASE @ MACLINE DANSAERT
Sat April 30th 2011 @ 3.PM

Real name / Diego Cortez Salas Nick Names / DC Salas, Mr Monk

DC Salas is a young fella also called Diego. He is like the Zorro of the youngest generation, avoiding traps like commercial music and poor clubs. He was the originator of a radio show, entertaining people about qualitative electronic music since 2005 (Radio Air Libre, Radio SI, …).

As a music lover is also dj, producer and
party organiser!

DC Salas : April 30th 2011 @ Mac Line Dansaert

UBUNTU COLA SUBCULTURE

Ziggy signing a can, and totally busted by Romain ahah ^^ @ Café Central Bruxelles-7727
Photo by @Kmeron

See also all the other pics I took of them over the years!
To see all the updates, have a look on FB
And all my Concert Pictures can be seen on : musicfromthepit

This is our contribution to the Ubuntu Cola - good design contest.

The brief told us to do a classic ad to be printed in the magazine "Filter". The target group was swedes in ages 15-30 years. After some thinking and researching, we realized that a small ad in a small magazine wouldn´t do that much of a difference.

This is what we did instead.

Copywriter: Gustav Johansson
Art Director: Tomas Nilsson

TRENDS-TENDANCES (11 March 2011)

« When John Jeanquart helped to launch Red Bull in our country, no one thought this energy drink would become so successful. »

« Being at the head of the Smiles Factory company, recently created along with his ally Thierry Vandebroek, he takes care of the starting commercialisation of Ubuntu Cola, the first cola being a result of fair trade. »

« After already being available in the United Kingdom, where about 2.5 million cans were sold in two and a half years, this soft drink will also be distributed in the Benelux. »

« Ubuntu Cola, which consists for 90% of water and for 9.8% of cane sugar harvested by farmers in Malawi, received the Max Havelaar and FLO-CERT fairtrade labels. »

« We want to clear away the stereotypes that come along with the standard images attached to fairtrade products, by not just spreading traditional pictures of farmers in their fields. »

What is Ubuntu?

Ubuntu: [ubu ntu] n. S African. humanity or fellow feeling; kindness.
Trans: "I am what I am because of who we all are"
"Ubuntu is the essence of being human. I am human because I belong, and my humanity is bound to yours."
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Ubuntu binds together many sub-Saharan societies. It’s a give-and-take concept where everyone depends on everyone else; it links everyone and everything is shared. Nobody is left wanting.
Hear Nelson Mandela talking about Ubuntu

Do you love the taste of Ubuntu?

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Ubuntu in Malawi

Ubuntu Cola owes its sweet taste to the Kasinthula Smallholder Cane Grower Scheme.

With help from their government, local leaders founded the scheme in 1996 in southern Malawi's Shire Valley to help local farmers earn a living.

Often referred to as the “warm heart of Africa”, Malawi is a young country which faces many of the issues confronting African nations today: many of its 12 million people live in rural villages as subsistence farmers where the average income is less than a dollar a day. Over half the population lives below the poverty line and average life expectancy is only 44. On the upside, its people have chosen multi-party democracy over conflict. School attendance is improving and Fairtrade together with other new trading opportunities is making a real difference to the lives of ordinary Malawians.

In 1996, 282 households from the Shire Valley in Southern Malawi formed a trust, leased 753 hectares of land and founded a farming cooperative, the Kasinthula Cane Growers Limited. It’s run by two committees of 10 members each, democratically elected every two years.

On average each small holder and their family farms 2.7 hectares, which is big enough for them to make a profit but small enough for them to be able to manage themselves. In 2007, the cooperative produced 80,000 tons of sugar cane (about 9,500 tons of sugar) and most of it is now sold on Fairtrade terms.

The farmers who are members of the Fairtrade cooperative at Kasinthula benefit from an income that although small at $4 a day is six times the national average. This enables them to live in brick houses and to educate their children. They benefit from electricity, clean water from new wells and medicines - all paid for with the money returned from the Fairtrade premium.

Andy Cato of Groove Armada on Ubuntu Cola

A video made by Andy Cato of Groove Armada on Ubuntu Cola - the UK's first Fairtrade cola

Andy Cato is one half of Electronic Dance movement Groove Armada and he is a big fan of Ubuntu. See how he puts Ubuntu to film.