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Serious Request is a yearly project by Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

radio station 3FM

3FM

3FM is a Dutch radio station on the NPO which broadcasts popular music. It can be compared with BBC Radio 1.-History:3FM was created as Hilversum 3 by minister Maarten Vrolijk on 11 October 1965, to counterbalance the popular offshore station Radio Veronica...

in which they collect money for projects of the Red Cross. The project was first held in 2004. During the project, three DJs live in a house of glass for six days (5 days in 2004) without eating anything, instead drinking special juice to stay fit. In the first five years it was located at the Neude in Utrecht

Utrecht (city)

Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...

. Starting in 2007, the location of the Glass house changed every year. In 2010, it is located in Eindhoven. While the DJs are in the house, they play songs requested by people via the internet or directly at the glass house. While making requests, the listeners donate a certain amount of money to the project. Furthermore numerous Dutch celebrities help the project by donating money and auctioning certain items they have. The project always takes place during the week prior to Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

.

The project has since been picked up in other countries: Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

and Kenya

Kenya

Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

Overview of projects

country	name	organising station	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Netherlands	Serious Request	3FM 3FM 3FM is a Dutch radio station on the NPO which broadcasts popular music. It can be compared with BBC Radio 1.-History:3FM was created as Hilversum 3 by minister Maarten Vrolijk on 11 October 1965, to counterbalance the popular offshore station Radio Veronica...	Utrecht Utrecht Utrecht is a city in the Netherlands.The name may also refer to:* Utrecht , of which Utrecht is the capital* Utrecht , including the city of Utrecht* Bishopric of Utrecht* Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht...	Utrecht	Utrecht	The Hague The Hague The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...	Breda Breda Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...	Groningen	Eindhoven	Leiden
Belgium (Flanders)	Music For Life	Studio Brussel Studio Brussel Studio Brussel is a radio station in Belgium, owned by the VRT. The music played is considered more alternative than the other big radio stations, and is aimed mainly at a youth audience....	N/A	N/A	Leuven Leuven Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...	Leuven	Ghent Ghent Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...	Ghent	Antwerp
Switzerland (French Part)	Couleur Terre	Couleur 3 Couleur 3 Couleur 3 is the third radio station launched by Radio Suisse Romande . The station was launched in 1982.It is receivable on French-speaking Switzerland and in Bern canton using FM.- External links :*...	N/A	N/A	N/A	Geneva Geneva Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...	N/A	N/A	N/A
Switzerland (German Part)	Jeder Rappen zählt	DRS 3 DRS 3 DRS 3 is the third radio station from Schweizer Radio DRS. The station was launched in 1983 in response to, the licensing of private radio stations in Switzerland that was directed primarily for music to a younger audience.... & SF zwei	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Bern	Bern	Luzern
Sweden	Musikhjälpen	SR P3 & Din gata 100.6	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Malmö Malmö Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...	Gothenburg Gothenburg Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...	Malmö
Kenya	Serious Request	Ghetto Radio	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Nairobi Nairobi Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi County. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is...	Nairobi	Nairobi

Request on Tour 2003

'Request on Tour' was a pre-edition of Serious Request. In the last three days of 2003 a "Request bus" was touring the country to collect money for Villa Pardoes (a holiday resort for children with a life-threatening illness, which is part of the Efteling

Efteling

Efteling is the largest theme park in the Netherlands, and as it opened in 1952, it is one of the oldest theme parks in the world. Efteling is located in the town of Kaatsheuvel, in the municipality of Loon op Zand, and has received over 100 million visitors....

) by playing requested songs in exchange for money. In total, €16,000 was collected that year.

Serious Request 2004 ('Jouw druppel op een gloeiende plaat')

Star DJs Rob Stenders

Rob Stenders

Rob Stenders is a Dutch radio DJ.Stenders had a long lasting career in radio starting with local radio stations. Stenders followed up Edwin Evers in the 3FM morning show "Stenders Vroeg" for the public radio and television company "VARA"...

and Ruud de Wild

Ruud de Wild

Rudolf Alexander de Wild is a Dutch radio host. He is also a former DJ, VJ and was one of the faces of the now-defunct television network Talpa....

left 3FM during 2004. They were replaced by Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

Michiel Antonius Adrianus Beelen, better known as Giel Beelen is a Dutch radio-dj and presentator. Currently he presents the VARA morning show GIEL at 3FM from Monday till Friday between 6:00 and 10:00 am...

and Wouter van der Goes

Wouter van der Goes

Wouter van der Goes is a Dutch radio DJ.At age twelve, he was tinkering with audio equipment as a hobby. Later, during his free time, he worked with several local radio stations, as well as pirate stations, while having a regular job as an insurance salesman.In 1995, Van der Goes is hired by Radio...

. To fill in the gap coordinator Florent Luyckx started looking for an alternate programming schedule. Due to this switch he said the radio station was vulnerable, especially in December. When the Beslan school hostage crisis

Beslan school hostage crisis

The Beslan school hostage crisis of early September 2004 was a three-day hostage-taking of over 1,100 people which ended in the deaths of over 380...

ended, the radio station decided to do something for the casualties and their relatives. However, the humanitarian organization related to the crisis told them they did not need any money. When the station contacted the Red Cross they were told that there is much help needed in subjects that not always get into the news, like the situation in Darfur

Darfur

Darfur is a region in western Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. The region is divided into three federal states: West Darfur, South Darfur, and North Darfur...

. This became the first theme for the Serious Request project. Between 20 and 24 December 2004 the first Serious Request took place. Wouter van der Goes

Wouter van der Goes

, Claudia de Breij

Claudia de Breij

Claudia de Breij is a Dutch comedian, show host and radio disk jockey.-Notes:...

and Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

were the DJs living in the house. They made a radio program for five days, 24 hours a day, without eating anything as a token of solidarity to those in Darfur. In total €916,000 was collected and the show was awarded the Marconi Award 2004-2005 for best radio show of the year. This year's theme song was Galvanize by the Chemical Brothers.

Serious Request 2005 ('Red een kind in Congo')

Between 19 and 24 December 2005 another house of glass was built at the Neude in Utrecht. This time those inside the house were Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

, Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom is a radio-dj at the Dutch radio station 3FM. Since September 2001 until September 2010 he hosted the show Arbeidsvitaminen each weekday from 10:00 until 12:00 am...

and Wouter van der Goes

Wouter van der Goes

. They were collecting money for children in the Republic of Congo, resulting in a total amount of €2,203,549 with €1,000,000 of this donated by the Dutch government. The show was awarded the "Gouden Radio-Oortje" 2006 for best radio show of the year. The theme song for 2005 was "Multiply" by Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell

Jamie Lidell is an English musician and soul singer living in Nashville, United States...

Daily scores

day		\|collected
1	19 December	€ 53,573
2	20 December	€ 137,877
3	21 December	€ 251,281
4	22 December	€ 414,552
6	24 December	€ 2,203,549

Serious Request 2006 ('30 miljoen landmijnen, daar kun je niet omheen')

In 2006 the project was held for the third consecutive time. Like the other years a house of glass was built at the Neude in Utrecht. This time the project collected money for casualties of land mine

Land mine

A land mine is usually a weight-triggered explosive device which is intended to damage a target—either human or inanimate—by means of a blast and/or fragment impact....

s in the world. Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

, Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom is a radio-dj at the Dutch radio station 3FM. Since September 2001 until September 2010 he hosted the show Arbeidsvitaminen each weekday from 10:00 until 12:00 am...

and Sander Lantinga

Sander Lantinga

Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a [[, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] program maker at [[BNN |BNN]], and a radio-DJ at radio station [[3FM]]...

were elected by the listeners to live in the house from 19 to 24 December 2006.

Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende

Jan Peter Balkenende

Jan Pieter "Jan Peter" Balkenende is a Dutch politician of the party Christian Democratic Appeal .He was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 July 2002 until 14 October 2010, having led four coalition governments, cabinets Balkenende I, II, III and IV, none of which served a full...

closed the door on 19 December, which started the project. He told the DJs and the listeners that the Dutch government will donate another €1,000,000 to the project, like they did in 2005, but only when the Dutch people collect at least as much money.

Election

Between 4 and 8 December 2006 listeners to 3FM were able to vote for their favorite DJs to enter the house on the 3FM website. They were able to vote for Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

, Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom is a radio-dj at the Dutch radio station 3FM. Since September 2001 until September 2010 he hosted the show Arbeidsvitaminen each weekday from 10:00 until 12:00 am...

, Claudia de Breij

Claudia de Breij

Claudia de Breij is a Dutch comedian, show host and radio disk jockey.-Notes:...

, Paul Rabbering, Coen Swijnenberg, Sander Lantinga

Sander Lantinga

Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a [[, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] program maker at [[BNN |BNN]], and a radio-DJ at radio station [[3FM]]...

and Michiel Veenstra

Michiel Veenstra

Arjan Michiel Sander Veenstra is a radio-dj for the NTR on 3FM. He presents the program MetMichiel every Monday to Thursday between 19.00 and 22.00. On Friday he can be heard between 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM with Ekstra Weekend....

. Eventually Giel Beelen, Gerard Ekdom and Sander Lantinga were elected.

Daily scores

day		\|time	\|collected
1	19 December	4:30 pm	€ 61,481
2	20 December	4:30 pm	€ 189,935
3	21 December	4:30 pm	€ 353,405
4	22 December	4:30 pm	€ 687,151
6	24 December	5:50 pm	€ 2,648,495

Total amount including a € 1,000,000 donation by the Dutch government.

Music for Life (Studio Brussel)

Apart from 3FM the Belgian

Belgium

radio station Studio Brussel

Studio Brussel

Studio Brussel is a radio station in Belgium, owned by the VRT. The music played is considered more alternative than the other big radio stations, and is aimed mainly at a youth audience....

also helped in the same project. It was the first time they were participating in the project. The DJs of both radio stations contacted each other every now and then. In Belgium another house of glass was built in the city of Leuven

Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

and the DJs that lived in there were Peter Van de Veire

Peter Van de Veire

Peter Van de Veire is a well known radio personality in Flanders.-Early life:Van de Veire grew up in the town of Waarschoot...

, Tomas De Soete and Christophe Lambrecht. Their total after six days was € 2,419,426, with € 200,000 from the Flemish Government

Flemish government

The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region. It consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament...

and a double up from Federal government, which brought the total for both projects at € 5,067,921

Sponsor walk

To collect even more money for the project a sponsor walk was organized. DJ Claudia de Breij

Claudia de Breij

Claudia de Breij is a Dutch comedian, show host and radio disk jockey.-Notes:...

walked together with her sidekick Hildedepilde (Hilde Brontsema) from the Belgian house to the Dutch house. Otto-Jan Ham of Studio Brussel did the same, but in the opposite direction. During the distance of 211 km listeners could sponsor the walk by donating per kilometre, but could also offer them a place to stay the night or something to eat. Both runners left the houses in the morning of 19 December and arrived at their locations in the afternoon of 24 December. Claudia de Breij collected € 31,511 during her sponsor walk.

Theme song

Chelsea Dagger

"Chelsea Dagger" is a song by The Fratellis and their second single. It was released on 28 August 2006. It is taken from their debut album Costello Music, which was released in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2006...

by the Fratellis was unofficially named the theme song of the project by the DJs. The song became popular in no-time and in the night of Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 December the song was massively requested and played six times within a four hour time span.

Serious Request 2007 ('De wereld schreeuwt om drinkwater')

The 2007 version moved to The Hague

The Hague

The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...

. The three DJ's who entered the glass house were Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom is a radio-dj at the Dutch radio station 3FM. Since September 2001 until September 2010 he hosted the show Arbeidsvitaminen each weekday from 10:00 until 12:00 am...

, Rob Stenders

Rob Stenders

and Michiel Veenstra. Coen Swijnenberg hitchhiked from The Hague

The Hague

to Leuven

Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

to Geneva

Geneva

Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...

and back, carrying a bucket containing 15 liters of water. Sander Lantinga

Sander Lantinga

Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a [[, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] program maker at [[BNN |BNN]], and a radio-DJ at radio station [[3FM]]...

and Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

, last year's occupants of the house, decided not to enter it beforehand and were unavailable to be chosen: instead they did tasks or errands for whoever bids the most money.

The charity for 2007 was safe drinking water for the 1,2 billion people on earth who have no access to good water. The event began on December 19, 2007 and was opened by Prince Willem-Alexander

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange is the eldest child of Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus. Since 1980 he is the heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He is also the head of the House of Amsberg since the death of his father in 2002. He was in military service and he studied...

.

Instead of donating €1,000,000 like previous years, the Dutch government announced to double the money collected by the public.

The themesong in 2007 was Let's Dance to Joy Division

Let's Dance to Joy Division

"Let's Dance to Joy Division" is a song by The Wombats and the second single taken from their second album A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation. The song was available to download on 8 October 2007, and was physically released one week later...

by The Wombats

The Wombats

The Wombats are an indie rock band formed in Liverpool, England. The band comprises native Liverpudlians Matthew Murphy and Dan Haggis , alongside Norwegian-born Tord Øverland-Knudsen...

Daily scores

day		\|time	\|collected
1	19 December	4:45 pm	€ 102,360
2	20 December	4:45 pm	€ 248,982
3	21 December	4:35 pm	€ 476,337
4	22 December	4:35 pm	€ 842,243
6	24 December	7:40 pm	€ 5,249,466

Total amount including doubling by the Dutch government

Music for life (Studio Brussel)

Again the Belgium Radio Station Studio Brussel

Studio Brussel

Studio Brussel is a radio station in Belgium, owned by the VRT. The music played is considered more alternative than the other big radio stations, and is aimed mainly at a youth audience....

took part in the action. From the Martelarenplein in Leuven

Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

, DJ’s : Peter Van de Veire

Peter Van de Veire

Peter Van de Veire is a well known radio personality in Flanders.-Early life:Van de Veire grew up in the town of Waarschoot...

, Tomas De Soete en Siska Schoeters, collected € 3.649.595,- from the Belgium listeners, that's including € 1,300,000 from the Flemish Government

Flemish government

The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region. It consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament...

.

Also from Leuven DJ Otto-jan Ham will leave for The Hague and Geneva with a bucket of water. without any money he must finish the trip without spilling any water.

Spontaneous ideas from normal people grow out to big proportions, A Special transport took of from Essen

Essen

- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...

. On board a Pool with 20,000 litre of water. 10 swimmers will take turns and swim during the trip of 24 hours. Collecting €14,000,--

Couleur Terre (Couleur 3)

Apart from 3FM and Studio Brussel also the Swiss Radio Station Couleur 3

Couleur 3

Couleur 3 is the third radio station launched by Radio Suisse Romande . The station was launched in 1982.It is receivable on French-speaking Switzerland and in Bern canton using FM.- External links :*...

from Geneva

Geneva

joined the project. Their Glasshouse was located on the rue de la Rôtisserie in Geneva. In their first year they collected CHF

Swiss franc

The franc is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia. Although not formally legal tender in the German exclave Büsingen , it is in wide daily use there...

400,000 (approx. € 151,000) by playing request songs on the radio. DJ’s Yann Zitouni, Émilie Gasc-Milesi and Michel Ndeze hosted 6 days of radio for 24 hours a day.

The Netherlands: "Een vluchteling is nergens zonder jouw hulp"

For the 2008 edition of Serious Request the Glass House was placed on the Grote Markt in Breda

Breda

Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...

, with DJs Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

, Coen Swijnenberg and Paul Rabbering entering the Glass House. The collected money was donated to help refugees all over the world. The Dutch Government promised to donate 2,5 million Euros if the Dutch people raised the same amount of money before the end of the project. This year the theme song chosen by the DJs was "Verliefdheid" by Dutch child singer Jordy van Loon

Jordy van Loon

Jordy van Loon is a Dutch child singer who reached number one in the Dutch Single Top 100 with his single "Verliefdheid".-Personal life:...

Daily scores

day		\|time	\|collected
1	19 December	4:55 pm	€ 140,523
2	20 December	4:40 pm	€ 327,709
3	21 December	4:35 pm	€ 595,480
4	22 December	4:40 pm	€ 847,223
5	23 December	4:45 pm	€ 1,377,338
6	24 December	8:21 pm	€ 3,137,961 € 5,637,961

Music for Life 2008

The Belgian broadcaster VRT also set up a Glass House, this year in Ghent

Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...

instead of Leuven

Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

. DJs Siska Schoeters, Sofie Lemaire and Tomas de Soete of Studio Brussel entered the house on 19 December and stayed there till the 24th. They also had an event called "Bed on the Run" where DJs Linde Merckpoel and Sam de Bruyn hitch-hiked from Malmö to Ghent with an IKEA bed.

Musikhjälpen (Sveriges Radio P3)

Sweden

participated with their Glass House placed in the city of Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

in the south of Sweden - there the project went by the name "Musikhjälpen" ("Music Aid"); because of Swedish Christmas celebrations, the show started one week earlier with their broadcasting.
The show aired day and night on radio stations SR P3 and Din gata 100,6

Din gata 100,6

Din Gata 100,6 is a Swedish radio station owned by Sveriges Radio produced in Malmö. It airs on an FM transmitter over Malmö, but is also available on the Internet. Its slogan is "Alla talar Skånska" , meaning that all hosts talk the local dialect...

- SVT Play

SVT Play

SVT Play is the brand used for the video on demand service offered by Sveriges Television, more specifically to the streaming services offered on the SVT website, svt.se, and its counterpart for mobile phones....

and SVT2

SVT2

SVT2, until 1996 TV2, is one of two television channels broadcast by Sveriges Television in Sweden. It was started by Sveriges Radio in 1969. SVT2 is generally more specialist, compared to SVT1.-History:...

aired the show when no other programs were aired. Notable guests during the six-day marathon included rap artist Timbuktu

Timbuktu (artist)

Jason Michael Robinson Diakité , known under the stage name Timbuktu, is a Swedish rapper and reggae artist. Earlier in the mid-1990s, he started as part of rap Excel before going solo as Timbuktu.-Biography:...

, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen

Mads Mikkelsen

' is a Danish actor.-Life and career:Mikkelsen was born in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, the son of Bente Christiansen and Henning Mikkelsen, a cab driver. He is the brother of actor Lars Mikkelsen. After attending Århus Theatre School, he made his film debut in the movie Pusher...

, and the Swedish national ice hockey team. The fundraiser raised a total of 3.016.247 Kronor (circa €280,000).

Serious Request in Africa - Ghetto Radio, Nairobi

With the participation of Ghetto Radio 89.5FM, Nairobi, Serious Request also took place in Kenya, with the strapline "On the run, not outta sight". This was the first time the event had taken place on the continent of Africa. The Nairobi Glass House was located on the grounds of the Kenyatta International Conference Centre

Kenyatta International Conference Centre

Kenyatta International Conference Centre is a 30-storey building located in Nairobi, Kenya.It is located in the central business district of Nairobi. It is a venue for conferences, meetings, exhibitions and special events within a walking distance of several five star hotels...

, and the three presenters were Angel, Rapcha, aka "the Sayantist" and Muki Garang.

Live streaming footage of the event ran on Ghetto Radio and on Ghetto Radio-Serious Request.

The Netherlands: "Stop Malaria, Play the Music"

The 2009 location for Serious Request is Groningen. DJs Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

, Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom is a radio-dj at the Dutch radio station 3FM. Since September 2001 until September 2010 he hosted the show Arbeidsvitaminen each weekday from 10:00 until 12:00 am...

and Annemieke Schollaardt

Annemieke Schollaardt

Annemieke Schollaardt is a DJ for the TROS on popular music channel 3FM. Until April 2009, Annemieke was heard daily on a radio project called Uruzgan FM...

populate the house. The theme of the 2009 edition is malaria

Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...

.

The house was closed by Princess Máxima

Princess Máxima of the Netherlands

Princess Máxima of the Netherlands is the wife of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands.-Early life and education:...

on 18 December. The keyboard of VanVelzen

VanVelzen

Roel van Velzen , better known as VanVelzen, is a Dutch singer-songwriter. Besides being known for his short stature, standing at a mere 4'11", he and his band enjoy a huge live reputation; they have played at virtually every festival in the Netherlands, shared the stage with Queen's Brian May, and...

and signed shirts of AFC Ajax and FC Groningen were on auction to support Serious Request. Every night there was a guest staying one night in the Glass House.

day		time	collected	guest
1	19 December	4:53 pm	€ 244,668	Thomas Acda Thomas Acda Thomas Acda is a Dutch actor, comedian, and singer, known as member of the duo Acda en De Munnik.Acda grew up in De Rijp and after graduating high school at havo level, Acda started the theater school, but soon switched to the Kleinkunstacademie in Amsterdam. There he first met Paul de Munnik...
2	20 December	4:52 pm	€ 428,629	Do
3	21 December	4:52 pm	€ 706,174	Youp van 't Hek Youp van 't Hek Joseph Jacobus Maria "Youp" van 't Hek is a Dutch comedian and a columnist for NRC Handelsblad.- Biography :Youp was born and raised in the Gooi, a wealthy region to the southeast of Amsterdam. His youth there served as an inspiration for his ironic attitude toward the rich, the successful and all...
4	22 December	4:53 pm		Roel van Velzen
5	23 December	4:53 pm	€ 1,740,302	Angela Groothuizen Angela Groothuizen Angela Groothuizen is a Dutch singer, artist and television personality.-Biography:Groothuizen rose to fame as a member of the Dutch Dance/Pop girl group Dolly Dots, which achieved popularity inside and outside the Netherlands, and scored hits between 1979 and 1988...

6	24 December	8:20 pm	€ 7,113,447	Waylon

Studio Brussel

Radio station Studio Brussel

Studio Brussel

Studio Brussel is a radio station in Belgium, owned by the VRT. The music played is considered more alternative than the other big radio stations, and is aimed mainly at a youth audience....

has located their Glass House in Ghent

Ghent

. DJ's this year are Siska Schoeters, Sam Debruyn and Sofie Lemaire. The result was € 3,649,595 (1,300,000 from the federal

Belgian federal government

The Cabinet of Belgium is the executive branch of the Belgian federal government, consisting of ministers and secretaries of state drawn from the political parties which form the governing coalition. Formally, the ministers are appointed by the King...

& Flemish government

Flemish government

The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region. It consists of up to a maximum of eleven ministers, chosen by the Flemish Parliament...

s, 2,349,595 from the listeners).

Switzerland

In 2009, the action Jeder Rappen zählt ("every Rappen
Rappen
A Rappen originally was a variant of the medieval Pfennig common to the Alemannic German regions Alsace, Sundgau and Northern Switzerland. As with other German pennies, its half-piece was a Haller, the smallest piece which was struck.Today, one-hundredth of a Swiss franc is still officially...

counts") was held for the first time. It took place in Bern, mainly for German-speaking Switzerland. Previously, in 2007, French-speaking Switzerland organised an action in Gevena. In total CHF

Swiss franc

9.2 million was collected to fight malaria.

Musikhjälpen (Sveriges Radio P3)

Musikhjälpen 2009 took place between the 14th and the 20th of December in the city of Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

. The theme this year was the fight against Malaria

Malaria

. The show was once again broadcast 24/7 on the Internet at SVT Play

SVT Play

and on the radio at SR P3 as well as television at SVT2

SVT2

when no other programs were aired. Hosts were Ametist Azordegan, Christer Lundberg and Jason Diakité (Timbuktu

Timbuktu (artist)

). The 144 hour show raised a total of 5,748,442 SEK (approx. €530,000).

Kenya

The Glass House in Nairobi was hit by a tropical rain storm on 23 December so the broadcast on Ghetto Radio had to be stopped.

The Netherlands: "AIDS took away their parents, Give back their future"

The 2010 location for Serious Request was Eindhoven. DJs Giel Beelen

Giel Beelen

, Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom

Gerard Ekdom is a radio-dj at the Dutch radio station 3FM. Since September 2001 until September 2010 he hosted the show Arbeidsvitaminen each weekday from 10:00 until 12:00 am...

and Coen Swijnenberg populated the house. The theme of the 2010 edition was AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

Orphans. For the first time the Dutch government didn't donate an extra amount of money because of a stricter national budget policy. However, a lot of companies and Netherlanders took this as a sign to be even more generous this year. They beat the old record by a few thousand euro. The official Serious Request 2010 Anthem was Blof - Wijd Open (Open Wide). The most requested song by far this year was Martin Solveig

Martin Solveig

Martin Picandet, better known under his stage name Martin Solveig is a French electronic music DJ and producer from Paris. He also hosts a weekly radio show called "C'est La Vie" on stations worldwide including FG DJ Radio in his homeland...

with Hello.

Studio Brussel

As in the past years, Studio Brussel organised their Music For Life action, this time placing the glass house on the Groenplaats in Antwerp. DJs this year were Sofie Lemaire, Sam Debruyn and Tomas De Soete. Given that this year is about AIDS orphans, Studio Brussel decided to release most of the details regarding the action on the 1st of December, World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day, observed December 1 every year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. Government and health officials observe the day, often with speeches or forums on the AIDS topics. Since 1995, the President of the United States has made an...

. As an extra, they invited different bands every evening to play on their roof, the most known of which were the Editors

Editors

Editors are a British indie rock band based in Birmingham, who formed in 2002. Previously known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield, the band consists of Tom Smith , Chris Urbanowicz , Russell Leetch and Ed Lay .Editors have so far released two platinum studio...

Switzerland

The action in German-speaking Switzerland

Switzerland

is called Jeder Rappen zählt ("every Rappen
Rappen
A Rappen originally was a variant of the medieval Pfennig common to the Alemannic German regions Alsace, Sundgau and Northern Switzerland. As with other German pennies, its half-piece was a Haller, the smallest piece which was struck.Today, one-hundredth of a Swiss franc is still officially...

counts"), this year to help children in war zones. The result was €5,251,835.92. Radio station DRS 3

DRS 3

DRS 3 is the third radio station from Schweizer Radio DRS. The station was launched in 1983 in response to, the licensing of private radio stations in Switzerland that was directed primarily for music to a younger audience....

has located their Glass House for the second time in Bern. DJs this year were Nik Hartmann, Anic Lautenschlager and Tom Gisler.

Samih Sawiris

Samih Sawiris

Samih Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman and billionaire and second of three sons of Onsi Sawiris, the other two being Naguib Sawiris and Nassef Sawiris. He is the executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Orascom Development, part of the Orascom group of companies...

added 20% of the final amount from the Sawiris Foundation.

Kenya

The 2010 Kenyan edition by Ghetto Radio is located opposite the Hilton Nairobi. Instead of raising money, they try to get as many people tested for HIV in their country.

Sweden

Musikhjälpen 2010 took place between the 13th and the 19th of December in the city of Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

. The theme this year was the fight against Trafficking of children

Trafficking of children

Trafficking of children is a form of human trafficking. It is defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receiving of children for the purpose of exploitation....

. The show was once again broadcast 24/7 on the Internet at SVT Play

SVT Play

and on the radio at SR P3 as well as television at SVT2

SVT2

when no other programs were aired. Hosts were Martina Thun, Jason Diakité (Timbuktu

Timbuktu (artist)

), Nour El-Refai. Already in the morning of the 18th of December last years record of 5,748,442 SEK (approx. €530,000) was surpassed.

Overview of the results

country	motto	result	remarks
Belgium	Music For Life	€ 5.020.747	2010-12-18 - 2010-12-24
Netherlands	Serious Request	€ 7.135.707	2010-12-18 - 2010-12-24
Sweden	Musikhjälpen	12 236 417 SEK SEK SEK may stand for:Swedish krona, the currency of SwedenFederation of Swiss Protestant Churches SEK Studio, a North Korean animation studio Stagecoach in East Kent... (€ 1.358.032)	2010-12-13 - 2010-12-19
Switzerland	Jeder Rappen zählt	8.996.326 CHF Swiss franc The franc is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein; it is also legal tender in the Italian exclave Campione d'Italia. Although not formally legal tender in the German exclave Büsingen , it is in wide daily use there... (€ 6.998.532)	Was held one week prior
Kenya	Serious Request		2141 people tested for HIV
Total		€ 20.513.018	-

External links

seriousrequest.3fm.nl, 3FM Serious Request stubru.be, Studio Brussel Music For Life jrz.ch, DRS3 Jeder Rappen zählt

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