Your chance to drive a Lamborghini round Sepang
If you’re a hopeless petrolhead, who happens to be good in graphics designing, you need to read this piece, and you need to read it to the end. The Narine Poverty Reduction Initiatve (NAPOREE) has joined hands with a few parties, most notably Lamborghini, to organize the Paint My Ride charity-based contest.
Organized with the Lions Club of Sentul as the host charity organization, the Paint My Ride contest is held to raise funds for various micro-projects under the Poverty Reduction Programme. How would funds be raised? That’s where you come in.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to summon your best creative inspirations, and design a decorative outer skin for the Lamborghini Gallardo. Your participation fee of RM500 (or RM300 in the case of student entry) goes entirely into the charity fund.
If you’re interested, the design template for the Gallardo is available for download in www.paintmyride.org in .ai format. You have from today till 31 Jan 2010 to submit your entry in any of .ai, .eps, or .jpg. The three winning entries will be unveiled on 25 Feb 2010.
What’s in it for the winners? Plenty. For a start, the first, second, and third placed winners will have their designs showcased on actual units of the Gallardo to be placed on display in shopping malls (as of now – 1Utama and Pavilion), besides winning a cash prize of RM5,000, RM3,000 and RM1,000 respectively.
However, no amount of cash would beat the attraction of having the excitement of driving the Gallardo LP560-4 around the Sepang International Circuit, and that is easily the biggest prize awaiting the top three winners.
The fourth and fifth placed Honorary Mention Prize winners do not get to drive, but instead will be driven around the SIC in a Lambo GT3 car by an as yet unnamed professional driver. Their designs will be showcased online, and they will pocket a cash prize of RM500 each.
We were told at the launch of the contest at the Tropicana City Mall that more prizes are being worked out with sponsors as we write this. Student entries, which will be judged together with the open categories, will get the additional incentive of an opportunity for an internship stint at an accredited advertising agency for a period of four to six weeks.
The ancient Chinese have a saying that if you give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. These are the lines that Naporee work along, by offering underprivileged youths opportunities to develop life-long skills for them to generate their own income.
Besides playing the role of a fund-raiser, the Paint My Ride contest would also serve as a tool to generate visibility and awareness of the cause to the public. A smart move. Any message plastered across a Lamborghini is bound to attract attention. In addition to Lamborghini, other organizations that have been roped in to the cause include Microsoft, Canon, Lenovo, Motorsport Playground, Original Intelligence, The Peak, Malaysian EVO, and Citrine One.
