About the Campaign

Boldomatic, Hannes Schmid and Ello partner to raise awareness for the non-profit Smiling Gecko initiative. In a global campaign, we are asking our creative communities to portrait the work and impact of the NGO.

Selected artists will receive an all-expenses paid trip to Cambodia to portrait the work and impact of Smiling Gecko through the eyes of an artist.

The Smiling Gecko mission runs from OCT 2nd until OCT 27th, 6pm CET.

10 selected artists will show in the Concerned Photography exhibition.

Presentation of campaign at Liechtenstein Think-Tank.

Feature of selected artists in various media and on-site + Journal/book

How to Enter

"To change the world, you need to be able to think freely and be creative. This will lead to innovation and a new way of thinking . Artists are known for this." Hannes Schmid

The submissions should illustrate how you capture or portrait culture, emotions, people, change... Describe the transformation basically people make through life, fate, fortune or bad luck.

Let us feel what's going on in the heads and hearts of people. We want to understand what angle you might take in order to portrait the work of Smiling Gecko in small detail or at large. Any creative response to the brief is eligible, as long as it's original work and the post includes the indicated hashtag.

You can make multiple submissions throughout the mission period.

Terms

The Smiling Gecko mission runs from OCT 2nd until OCT 27th, 6pm CET. Submit your original work for the opportunity to travel to Cambodia and portrait the work and impact of Smiling Gecko through the eyes of an artist. Your submission needs to be original and include the indicated hashtag in order to be eligible.

For you in order to be eligible to win the mission and related travel to Cambodia, you have to be 18 years or older and be in the position to travel by plane. You are required to have a valid passport which is at least valid until OCT 2018. A travel ban may be imposed on any artists with a police record. Such or any other travel limitation is beyond our control and you have no right for any type of compensation should you not be able to travel for any reason including missing the plane.

A jury from Smiling Gecko, Boldomatic and Ello will reach out to a shortlist of possible winners and decide on the eligible candidate to travel to Cambodia. The trip takes place NOV 28 to DEC 9th, exact timings and dates are to be determined according to where you live and originate from. While we try and accommodate your travel preferences, it's at Boldomatic's sole discretion to decide on the final dates, timings, airline and any other means of transportation and accommodation. The airtickets economy and trip expenses are covered, so is the on site accommodation in appropriate category, food and beverages for main meals.

By submitting your original work you tentatively agree to travel to Cambodia on the indicated dates and portrait the Smiling Gecko initiative throuhg your eyes. You'll be asked to write a minimum of five powerful statements on Boldomatic which may be printed and or used in conjunction with the campaign and Smiling Gecko. While the copyrights of such statements remains with you at any time, Boldomatic and primarily its affiliates Ello, Smiling Gecko and Hannes Schmid may use the words for an international audience on- and offline, for commercial and promotional matters.

You are not entitled to any financial compensation other than the trip expenses, which we'll provide in kind. There's no cash disbursement and an replacement of the prizes is not possible. Recourse to the courts is not permitted.

All aspects of the campaign are at the sole discretion of the partnering companies Boldomatic SA, Ello and Smiling Geck Switzerland.

Smiling Gecko on Ello

Ello and Boldomatic are partnering for Smiling Gecko as co-hosts of the campaign. Visit below link and explore what the Ello community is up to. You may submit additional work via https://ello.co/artist-invites/smiling-gecko and increase your chance to win.

About our Sponsors

Prakriti invests in and supports a variety of projects from many different sectors, with a large emphasis on real estate projects. For those projects, Prakriti works as an interface with the capital market and mainly supports the raising of capital.

Become a Sponsor

We are grateful for our generous sponsors, who fund the artists travelling to Cambodia.

Interested in becoming a sponsor?

With more companies or individuals pitching in, more artists will get the chance to contribute with their work and help Smiling Gecko and the thousands of families that SG supports every day.

Contacts for sponsorship:

Boldomatic SA

Steffen Schietinger

+41 44 552 04 18

steffen@boldomatic.com

ELLO – The Creators Network

Mark Gelband

mark@ello.co

Support Smiling Gecko

Support the great work of Smiling Gecko through a direct contribution.

Verein Smiling Gecko

Thomas Hemschemeier

Luegislandstrasse 105

8051 Zürich

+41 44 321 67 70

info@smilinggecko.ch

About Smiling Gecko

Since the middle of the last century, Cambodia has been ravaged by decades of civil war and suffered terribly during the Vietnam war and the terror regime of the Khmer Rouge. As a consequence, Cambodia is now one of the poorest countries in the world. In its capital Phnom Penh alone, tens of thousands of children live on the streets, suffering hunger, illness and abuse. To provide these children and their families with a life in decency, we need to provide help on the ground.

In recent years, Smiling Gecko has been able to do a lot of good through their projects. Apart from providing direct aid and supporting other NGOs, Smiling Gecko focuses on fighting the causes of poverty and helping people to help themselves. In the meantime, Smiling Gecko Cambodia has developed into a social start-up company, based on six intertwined pillars (agriculture, production, trade, industry and tourism, as well as education) that should contribute to a self-sustaining unit in the mid-term future.

Contrary to most conventional NGOs, Smiling Gecko pursues a holistic approach with the cluster project, which leads to a sustainable improvement of the living conditions within a community. Already in the beginning of 2014, the vision is to expand Smiling Gecko as a holistic cluster project. Since then, many areas of work and training could be created in agriculture, tourism, crafts and schooling. By 2025, many additional projects in the field of industry and crafts will follow. Due to the economic orientation of the cluster projects, they will be self-supporting and can finance the school and thus the education of the children. This creates an exemplary model of a functioning, rural community, which provides education, decent work and sustainable income to the people.