Islamic Relief is a worldwide charitable organization that provides aid to alleviate poverty. Its goals are to decrease suffering, hunger, illiteracy, and diseases worldwide without regard to color, race or creed. It also aims to provide rapid relief in the event of man-made or natural disasters. In addition, it establishes development projects in needy areas to help tackle poverty, illiteracy and disease at a local level.

Islamic Relief established operations in Afghanistan to respond to the desperate situation in that country, helping to carry the burden of rebuilding the shattered land. Afghanistan has suffered three decades of war and political strife. More than half of Afghanistan’s 31 million people live below the poverty line. Illiteracy, lack of access to safe water, drug addiction, and a high child mortality rate are just a few of the epidemics many Afghans face in their daily lives. Islamic Relief has been working in Afghanistan since 1992 to help combat these issues. Some of their projects include Development Centers to educate the many widows and orphans, schools for those with no place to learn, wells and irrigation lines to help the local farmers, emergency relief, and health centers to help the sick and addicted.

TriVision Studios was contacted by Islamic Relief to help them with their charity campaign in Afghanistan. They sought a company that could understand the needs, language and culture of Afghanistan and its people. TriVision was more than happy to produce a 10-minute multilingual marketing video that emotionally conveys the plight of the Afghan people and their current dire situation. This video was recently showcased during an important telethon on Afghan television. TriVision also produced a television commercial specifically targeting the month of Ramadan.

Click here to view the promotional video.

For more information about Islamic Relief or to make donations, visit http://www.irw.org

Renowned vocalist, composer, and peace activist, Farhad Darya, is claimed by many to be one of the most influential artists of the contemporary music age in Afghanistan. Since the mid-1980’s, the award-winning musician has become the revolutionary force behind a new and inventive form of Afghan music. Called by the western media as the “Voice of the Afghan Nation”, his music appeals to both young and old whereas he has created music in multiple genres; from semi-classical, old and modern “ghazal” to folklore, traditional, pop, and rock. Throughout his career, Darya has arranged and sang a remarkable array of songs in most major Afghan regional languages and dialects, having released a total of 32 albums and several hit singles.

For more than eight years, TriVision Studios has been Darya’s official marketing and promotion agency. From the design and post-production of his record selling album and DVD “Salaam Afghanistan” to the development and maintenance of his official website www.farhaddarya.info, and the sponsorship of his concerts in the United States, TriVision has kept a prominent position in Darya’s worldwide promotions.

Recently, TriVision also designed and promoted his latest project, Kochah or “Street”, in which Darya works with neglected working children of the “streets” in Afghanistan. Kochah’s first TV show earned Darya the Human Rights Award and also helped him open over 2000 bank accounts for unprivileged families in Afghanistan.

Click on the thumbnails below to view Darya’s work with TriVision over the years.

The Official Web Site: www.farhaddarya.info

Sesame Street, the television program that has helped educate millions of children around the world, is now being shown in schools and different educational settings in Afghanistan. Prepared by the non-profit organizations, Sesame Workshop and RAND Corporation, the program consists of more than 400 multi-media educational outreach kits. Each kit contains ten 20-minute-long videotaped episodes from material developed in Egypt for Alam Simsim, an Egyptian adaptation of Sesame Street funded by USAID. The program, which has been dubbed in Dari, is called Koche Sesame for the version created for Afghanistan.

TriVision Studios designed and produced these kits which have been distributed across Afghanistan by government and non-government organizations, in an effort to help rebuild the Afghan educational system ravaged by years of war. Besides the videotapes, the kits contain a teacher handbook illustrating ways to use the media as an effective educational tool, a children’s alphabet poster with colorful illustrations, and school supplies. Furthermore, TriVision also translated the Dari and Pashto messages from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, also featured in each kit.

According to RAND, the aim of the Koche Sesame episodes is to assist teachers in educating children, cultivate awareness of other cultures, emphasize opportunities for girls and women, and raise student interest in education and career opportunities.

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization that has worked with TriVision over the years on different projects, ranging from TriVision’s translation services to video production and studio rental. RAND’s mission is to provide objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world.

To read more about Sesame Street and the RAND Corporation, visit them on the web at www.sesamestreet.org and www.rand.org.

TriVision Studios has a long history of working with universities and trade schools in the region with the goal of encouraging and cultivating young talent interested in working in such fields as graphic design, web development, video production, and marketing.

Since its expansion into a 12,000 square feet state-of-the-art studio center in Chantilly, Virginia, TriVision Studios has emerged as a touring spot for schools around the area.

One of the schools in point is ITT Technical Institute, a leading private college system focused on technology-oriented programs of study. It operates over 100 ITT Technical Institutes in more than 30 states which predominantly provide career-focused, degree programs to approximately 54,000 students.  Each semester, ITT school has brought their students to TriVision to get a “behind-the-scenes” field tour of the studio. With approximately 40 students in each group, ITT students get a detailed "insider look" at what goes into producing projects, such as television commercials, music videos, web sites, and logo designs. There is also a question and answer session where students get an opportunity to gain insight on specific topics ranging from the technical know-how of equipment and software to tips on catching a potential employer’s interest. For many of these students, it will be the first and only time they’ll get to see a real-life work environment before they graduate.

In addition to providing tours of the Chantilly facility, TriVision also offers internships to students of area schools. These internships provide valuable real life experience that help prepare the visionaries of tomorrow with a peak of what to expect once they reach the full-time work force.

For more information on ITT Technical Institute please visit them at www.itt-tech.edu.  For information on future internship programs with TriVision Studios, please contact a TriVision representative.

Asia Consultancy Group (ACG) is a privately held company focused on facilitating the development of a 21st century digital highway for Afghanistan. Its goal is to provide premier telecommunication consultancy services and cost efficient value added services to telecommunication and ISP services providers, NGOs, governmental entities, and private sector clients. ACG’s future goals are expansion of all its services throughout Central Asian countries.

Before its inception, ACG faced the challenge of entering a very competitive market with a global, diverse and multi-lingual cliental. The task was to create a corporate identity and a consistent creative media campaign to reach its potential clients.

TriVision Studios was able to create a complete branding strategy which visually portrayed ACG as a world-class telecommunication company. With use of subtle colors, white space and simple but powerful fonts, TriVision was successful in conveying the image the client yearned for. TriVision also applied the same philosophy in developing ACG’s web site, business stationery, business cards, folders and other promotional items, thus achieving a uniformed, world-class branding and marketing campaign.

To read more about ACG, visit them on the web at www.acgtelasia.com

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

What do you do when you need to find something on the Internet?

In most cases, you go to one of the major search engines and type in the term or key words that you’re looking for and then click through the results. But what if the first and second pages don’t give you the results you were looking for?

On the other end, what do you do to attract more visitors to your company’s web site? What if you have the most attractive web site and yet no one can find you?

Search Engine Optimization or SEO is a marketing strategy that helps your web site be recognized and get on the first page of leading search engine sites, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, and AOL. It is the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or “algorithmic” search results for targeted key words. Usually, the earlier a site is presented in the search engine results pages or the higher it "ranks", the more searchers will visit that site.

In today’s fast-paced internet world in which a web site can be the face of a brand’s identity, having your web site be optimized for search engine compatibility is not only important, but a necessity. Without a good SEO, your website is lost amongst thousands of other web sites on the net. 

We at TriVision can help you achieve that goal and increase your web site’s “rank” by using SEO as a cost-effective and accessible tool to increase not only its traffic, but target your audience and give your brand a high international profile.

For a free consultation on getting SEO for your web site, please contact us by phone or email at 1.888.600.5528 or sales@trivision.tv.