Following the success of the first global Twestival on February 12th 2009, in which 202 cities participated, Twestival returns in September with a local twist on “Twestival" – the volunteer-run, charity fundraising events for people who  know each other through the micro-blogging service twitter.com. The Ubud event will take place on 12 September at Flava Lounge raising funds for Ubud-based Yayasan Bumi Sehat whose vision is a Community-Based and Sustainable Family Cooperative Health Care Model to be developed and implemented across Indonesia. Yayasan Bumi Sehat's goal is conflict resolution and peace building, one mother, one baby, and one family at a time.

The first 24 hour “‘tweet-up’ with a social conscience" inspired thousands and raised $250,000 for clean water charity,  charity: water, and the next event Twestival Local, looks to be even bigger. Twestival Local again gives every city in  the world the chance to hold their own Twestival, but this time they can run their events anytime between the 10-13th  September 2009, and choose their own local charity. Twitter users in Ubud chose Yayasan Bumi Sehat.

Volunteer teams in Ubud and cities across the world are now coming together to survey their communities, nominate  causes, plan events, gather sponsors and raise funds. Ubud Twestival organiser Liz Sinclair said “We’re so excited about  the next Twestival in Ubud and working with our great team of volunteers and sponsors to raise funds for Yaysan Bumi  Sehat. We’re hoping to see lots of Ubud Twitter users coming along to have an amazing time with us and generate lots of  cash and awareness!  I'm a big fan of Twitter and I hope this will help convince others that social networking can be  used to spread the message and fundraise for good causes.”

Global partners across all countries for Twestival are Amiando, Citrix Online, Blurb and Causecast.  For the for the full  and changing list of cities, or to get involved yourself, go to http://www.twestival.com/.

Links & contacts:

• http://twestival.com/media/
• http://ubud.twestival.com/
• http://www.bumisehatbali.org/
• @twestival, @ubudtwestival
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