Offer of FREE Gigapixel Virtual Tour Photography for Indian Charities

Later this year (read very soon) Kilgore661 will be visiting various parts of India doing a Gigapixel photography trip. He is offering FREE gigapixel virtual tour creation for Indian charities. His current itinerary includes visiting New Delhi, Hyderabad, Tamil Nadu and Goa.

For more information see Kigore in India 2013 and this article here.

This kind of photography is ideal for helping promote work and inform (potential) supporters of what is going on. It is well suited for things like health clinics, orphanages, refugee work, social developments and more. Virtual photography of this kind is usually very expensive, so this is not an opportunity to be missed.

Another free offering is also being made by Panoramic Earth, which is willing to offer FREE HOSTING of any 360 panoramas that a charity already has. For an example, see what the site did for HeartKids. As the charity can also provide information to go with each image on the site, it can be a great way of creating another means for people to find out about your work. 

Supporting Heartkids Orphanage in India

Every now and again something really great happens. Seeing Heartkids use Panoramic Earth to display virtual tours of their orphanage in India was one of those. Heartkids runs a number of homes for orphans and children abandoned by their families around Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu. Each Heartkids home houses up to nine children, providing them with a house-mum and a loving, nurturing environment. Because of what the charity does, every day about 150 children aged 4 to 18 find a safe place where they get food, clothing, play and education. Outside they were rejected, living hand to mouth in extreme deprivation. Inside there is life and hope for the future.

Heartkids not only provides for the children but also medical help for adults, especially those suffering from leprosy, HIV or polio disabilities. These individuals are rejected by society and forsaken. Yet through the work of Heartkids their humanity is acknowledged and some dignity restored.

Panorama of Heartkids Home 1 full supplied by Panoramic Earth

Such work always needs more support, and if you are interested then you can help, get involved and make a difference.

At Panoramic Earth, we are just grateful to have been allowed to play a part. And we would welcome this more, so if you have a worthy cause you would like to let others know about with virtual tours, then please talk to us.

Panorama of Dalai Lama's Monastery

Though co-incidental, the timing of this could not have been better planned. As there are protests and arrests in London and Paris over the Chinese treatment of Tibet and their own people as try to carry the Olympic torch to Beijing, a user of Panoramic Earth has uploaded a 360° panorama taken from the personal monastery of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Here is the Namgyal Monastery panorama. The Namgyal Monastery is found in Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, part of India. The Dalai Lama moved the monastery here when the Chinese red army invaded Tibet in 1959.

Thanks to Malcolm Etherington for this unique and timely contribution to the site.