Unleash your imagination by Free Hugs Vietnam in collaboration with Helping Orphans Worldwide (HOW).

1. Purpose

   HOW is a US-based non-profit & humanitarian organization working for the basic rights and benefits of the children living in deprived areas of the world. Last year 2009, HOW made some interesting charity trips to Vietnam, visiting many local orphanages and also co-organized the Mid Autumn Festival Charity events with Free Hugs Vietnam (FHV). The event involved distributing gift packages to the poor and homeless around the city centre and reaped radical success. This year, HOW is back and brings with them another great volunteer opportunity this May and June for all FHV members as well as other interested young people. In an attempt to foster the solidarity between FHV and HOW in our joint community causes and help members understand more about HOW’s activities, we are now launching The Creative Design Contest: Unleash your imagination directed at all FHVers along with other non-members.

2. Eligible participants

   Everyone with or without official FHV membership is equally encouraged to take part in this contest. Only individual participants are allowed, no groups or teams are eligible.
   Members of the organizing board (FHV and HOW managers) are not entitled to participate.

3. Requirements

   1. Participants will have to create a design for HOW’s T-shirt, including both the back and front sides. The original logo of HOW will be provided, and participants must use it somewhere reasonably visible on the T-shirt in their design work.
   2. Participants are to submit their designs in two different formats: .JPEG format (to be uploaded onto FHV’s Facebook Fanpage) and .AI format (to be printed out later, if chosen for the 1st Prize), with the resolution of 300 dpi.
   3. Each participant can submit one design model only. If more than one different design models are submitted, only the first one will be assessed.
   4. The design work must be original. If some patterns or ideas are adopted from other sources, proper citations or mentioning are required.

4. Procedures of the contest

   The contest will last approximately 4 weeks, as follows

   1. Thursday April 22, 2010: The contest officially starts and all detailed information on this contest will be made available on FHV Facebook Fanpage and sent to members via email.
   2. Thursday May 6, 2010: Deadline of the first round. Participants need to send their designs via email both to linh.hoang@freehugsvietnam.com by 12:00 A.M. on Wednesday, May 2 2010. In the email, please include accurate personal details like full name (please use your real name), date of birth, gender, permanent and/or temporary residence, cell phone number, the name of the design (if any) so that we can contact the winners later on. The subject of the email must be: “Creative design contest_yourfullname”. For example: ““Creative design contest_Nguyen Van A”Any submission after this time will not be qualified for the next round, and no other modifications or changes can be made to the submitted designs after the deadline of the first round. Upon getting the emails from participants we will reply to you that your submissions are successfully received.
      All the designs of participants with their details (name of the participant and/or name of the design) will be uploaded by FHV page administrators onto a photo album on FHV Facebook Fanpage called “Creative design contest 2010”. Then all fans of the page (3193 fans as at April 18, 2010) will vote for the 6 most outstanding designs. The votes are the number of “likes” each design receives.
   3. Thursday May 13, 2010: End of the second round. FHV page administrators will rank all the designs on the basis of votes received and announce the 6 designs that will go on to the last round
   4. Thursday May 20, 2010: End of the third round. HOW and FHV’s management board will select the 3 best designs and award the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Prizes.

5. Prizes

   There are 3 Prizes in total to be awarded, to the value of approximately 1 million VND (or 50 USD)

   1. 1st Prize: 2 dining vouchers at Lau Nuong Tan Cang Buffet restaurant.
   2. 2nd Prize: 4 movie vouchers at Galaxy Nguyen Trai , including extras like drinks and popcorn
   3. 3rd Prize: 2 movie vouchers at Galaxy Nguyen Du, including extras like drinks and popcorn

   (*Note: The venue of the restaurant and cinema may be subject to change at the time the prizes are awarded, but the value of the prizes remains the same)

6. Others

   • The original logo of HOW can be downloaded at http://www.mediafire.com/?ymnnyenkbkn
   • For more detailed information on HOW’s mission, activities and programs, please visit http://www.helpinghow.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Helping-Orphans-Worldwide-HOW/26235344258?ref=ts
   • No one within the organizing board (namely FHV and HOW) can participate in this contest.
   • The organizers, namely FHV and HOW, fully reserve the rights to use participants’ submitted designs for reference or promotion purposes in the future.
   • If the submitted designs do not fully meet the requirements stated in section III and procedures stated in section IV, they will be disqualified immediately.
   • The organizers, namely FHV and HOW, will not bear any responsibility at all for any infringement on the law related to unauthorized/illegal use of other people’s ideas and/or published works by the participants in their submitted designs.
   • The organizers, namely FHV and HOW, will not bear any responsibility at all if the submitted designs are missed due to system errors. Upon receiving the submitted designs the organizers will reply to the participants to confirm the submission has been successful within 24 hours.
   • Participants will be held wholly accountable for the designs they submit in front of the law.
   • Should the organizers, namely FHV and HOW, detect with a relative level of certainty that any design copies from other published works without proper mentioning or citations, that design will be disqualified.
   • If 1 week after the announcement of the third round’s result the winners cannot be reached via the contact details they provide, the awards will automatically go to the next best designs chosen by the organizers, namely FHV and HOW.

On behalf of the organizing board.