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| What's New - Sept. - Dec. 2006 archived stories
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MINIBUS FOR YUM CHILDREN'S VILLAGE (November, 2006)
A few weeks ago, thanks to Virginia Thomas, Chairperson of SD Canada, Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM) was informed of a new marketing tool through GiveMeaning to help raise funds for a minibus for the Children's Village in Cipanas. GiveMeaning, an award-winning online social network for charitable giving, is an innovator in viral marketing, an online tool to raise funds.
At the time, we desperately needed to replace our old minibus with a newer, safer and more reliable vehicle to transport children to and from schools every day. The children’s village is home to about 50 children, ranging in age from 6 – 17. Their current vehicle requires more and more repairs, which means that funds that could be used for the children’s care are being rapidly depleted. In addition, the minibus breaks down en route which is quite disturbing for the children.
Within seven weeks, through GiveMeaning and direct donations, we raised about 75% of our $12,300 goal. A few days ago a Subud member through his enterprise offered to match new contributions for the minibus to reach the goal. An appeal was sent out by YUM and we have now surpassed our goal. Any surplus donations we receive above the cost of the vehicle, insurance, etc. will be used to repair the buildings, which has not been done in 10 years.
A big thanks to all those who have contributed to this success!
The YUM team |
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Colt L300 Minibus High Roof Standard
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WORKING AT CHILD'S GARDEN OF PEACE (October, 2006)
Larisa Sunderland lives in New York City with her family, but spent 2 months this summer in Brazil as a volunteer for A Child's Garden of Peace. This is her description of her experience.
"This summer, I had the opportunity to work with my aunt on a community project she started in southern Brazil called a Child's Garden of Peace. When I committed myself to living there with her friends from the community for six weeks, I was ignorant of the enormity of the impact the summer would have on me."
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GENEROUS GRANT TO YUM AND SD INDONESIA! (September, 2006)
The Japan National Council of Social Welfare has announced they are granting YUM US$91,900 for the second year of the Aceh Community Centre after an inspection visit they conducted a few weeks ago. This is almost double the planned budget for the second year. They are also granting $17,000 for SD Indonesia’s Yogya relief project.
The second year grant for Aceh Community Centre is for:
• Rent, Supervision & Monitoring and Administration
• Personnel
• Programmes for Counseling Clinic, Scholarships, Microfinance
• Purchase of second-hand car.
The grant for Yogya relief also includes funding for the pre-school teacher training programme and aid requested from other NGOs.
Marmitasari and Wawan should be particularly congratulated on this success, as well as Mailia for her excellent accounting reports, and all those involved in the smooth running of the project.
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MY SUMMER IN BRAZIL (September, 2006)
Myra Margolin (USA) spent the summer in Brazil working with Illene Pevec and the Child's Garden of Peace Project. Myra writes:
“One of the lovely things about working with Illene all these years is that she has given me many opportunities to do things I have never done before. The first year I came, I had never taught art. After being in Brazil, I was able to return to New York and get a job teaching art at a camp..."
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ASOCIACION VIVIR REPORTS (September, 2006)
Dr. Eliana Garzon, founder of Asociacion Vivir Health Education Program in Ecuador, was recently selected by Ashoka as a Social Entrepreneur for her innovative work with health education. http://www.ashoka.org. Recently, Eliana attended the Latin-American Gathering organized to celebrate the 25 years of the Ashoka Foundation which was held in Buenos Aries. Ashoka in Sanskrit means 'the active absence of sorrow'. I also discovered that Mauricio Wild, founder of the Pestalozzi School, was named as an Ashoka Fellow in 1995.
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Ashoka report (English)
Ashoka report (Spanish)
Asociacion Vivir August 2006 report (English)
Asociacion Vivir August 2006 report (Spanish)
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2007 MITHRA FOUNDATION CALENDAR (September, 2006)
Maria Blakey-Sevrin has created a 2007 calendar of her paintings, inspired by images of the project, to sell as a fundraiser for Mithra Foundation. The calendar is A4 size closed and A3 open, with an image for each month. The calendar is in French, English and German and includes a page of text describing the work of the Foundation. The calendar is selling for 10€/7£/12US$/16AU$ including postage, 25% of the profits will go to the Mithra Foundation.
From Maria... "... my aim in creating the calendar was to publicize the work of the Mithra Foundation. Originally I wanted to give 50% of the profits to Mithra. However it took so long to put it together, long after the paintings were finished, many hours spent in front of the computer and all the costs of production even before printing that I realized I couldn't reasonably stay with that percentage. Someone advised me that Bapak recommended 25% in such projects and what is really important for Mithra is spreading the word about their work."
To order one or several calendars or for more information contact Maria Blakey-Sevrin at: mariablakey@wanadoo.fr Payment can be made by money order or by cheque (in
euros or pounds) and sent to: MARIA BLAKEY-SEVRIN 6 RUE ST MARY 04300, FORCALQUIER LES ALPES DE HAUTE PROVENCE, FRANCE. |
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