Let’s Play Ten-Ten Berths

Let’s Play Ten-Ten, a charity organisation, will hold its official launch and Charity Fun-Day tagged ‘Live2Love Season 1’ at the National Theatre, Lagos, on 21 December. The event will mark the organisation’s three month of existence.

Harvard University-certified consultant, Fifehanmi Bankole, who created the social movement, Let’s Play Ten-Ten, will be hosting friends, ‘Ten-Ten’ players and the general public to an evening of drama, dance, music performances and a fund-raising dinner to set the process in motion on a national scale.

Let’s Play Ten-Ten is a social crowd-funding, micro-giving, savings-for-charity initiative inspired by the original Ten-Ten game, the popular hand-clapping game among children in Nigeria.

Playing Ten-Ten for charity is simply getting an envelope and saving every N10 (and any denomination below) you come across in your purse/bag/pocket for the sole purpose of giving your Ten-Ten savings to charity.

Keni Akitoye of Twin-X fame, who is also a spokesperson of the organisers, said: “Our vision is to share love by inspiring others to achieve so much with so little. This initiative aims to inspire 10million Nigerians in 10 years to participate in the Let’s Play Ten-Ten charity-inclined game of micro savings-to-give.

“There are no rules, only a guideline as this charity-focused game is meant to be fun, flexible and fulfilling. A star player is one who has been able to inspire nine more persons to join him/her in playing this game to form a local Ten-Ten club.

“Right now, over a billion people live in extreme poverty around the world. As heartbreaking as that is, we are not aspiring to solve the world’s problems. Charity begins at home! In Nigeria, poverty means many things: kids without access to schools, schools with no roofs, kids with no school uniforms, families without access to healthcare, patients without drugs, increased infant, child and maternal mortality rate, families living below $1 a day.”

— Bayo Adetu