This year's event was supported by Flight1, Goflight, Just Flight, FS Addon, Aerosoft, Microsoft Game Studio, FScene, FS2Crew, ITVV, Angle of Attack, Just planes, Vroute, Captain Sim, and Top Gun Productions.
The auction has raised over £1000. The success of the auction is way beyond the expectation of the team here in Scotland and the staff at the ORBIS London office.
We hoped to create an International event with buyer's world wide and thanks to superb publicity the auction was given this was achieved. With bidders in Malaysia, Austria, India, France, USA, Belgium, Reunion Island, Luxembourg, Poland and the UK. The auction like World Flight covered the globe. The flight Simulator Community has been incredibly supportive from the top companies to virtual organisations and individual simmers we could not have asked for more support.
The money raised makes a huge difference to the lives of thousands of people around the world.
- 37 million people world wide are blind and 124 million live with vision so poor that normal life is impossible. 90 percent of these live in developing countries
- 75% of all blindness is treatable or preventable
- Every minute a child goes blind
All these facts are just numbers, but if you imagined 2000 people or 4000 children standing outside your home, office that's the amount of people that this money could have helped. To help some one that is able to thank you is a great experience. The reality is we will never meet the people this money has helped, but on their behalf I would like to give my heart felt thanks to everyone that made this auction possible and the good that will result from it.
The full story can be found here.
A HUGE THANK YOU
