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THE KIDSZIP.COM ROLE IN SOCIETY
PRESS RELEASE - August 2005
Perhaps for the first time in history,
a commercial entity gives ALL its money away!
It starts with a story ...

Kidszip.com is a global project investing in children. It is launching as a children’s literature website that offers an immediate reading solution. Beautiful, illustrated bedtime stories for children are available in seven languages, at low prices. Every connected household can afford to sign-up to kidszip.com because it's free.

Kidszip Limited is probably the first commercial company in the world returning ALL its profits back to society. 100% of profits from kidszip.com are invested in the education of children in universal human values. Kidszip.com is working for the prevention of violence, drug abuse, racism and other social diseases. It will support registered not-for-profit organizations that provide character-building education to children in developing and industrialized countries.

Kidszip.com is a new form of social enterprise. Currently launching its online activities in test regions across the world. An introductory free story is offered to every visitor. From here, every user may subcribe to their personalised bookself. Parents, teachers and child-care professionals download and print colorful stories for children. Each story aims to provide entertainment, develop children’s empathy and imagination, and assist children from less privileged backgrounds.

The website is prepared by a multinational team of talented authors, illustrators and translators; graphic artists, business managers and high-tech experts. All together: 180 people from over 25 countries. The kidszip.com team is inspired by the not-for-profit model upon which the company is founded.

“Children are the leaders of tomorrow. Their education is the No.1 priority for kidszip.com,” says Linda Bell Basnett, the author of the concept. “Give them a foundation, a means to relate, so they may understand the meaning of responsible and global citizenship!”

Consult the Q & A interview with Linda Bell Basnett and read our commercial philosophy.


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