Margo and Mike organized a musical evening fundraiser for Saludos Ninos! last
Saturday
night.
They have been so involved since visiting and working in Panyebar last
year.Margot sang in 3 languages and
played
ukelele ,a friend of ours from the MG car club sang ,too.Tito, from Lake
Atitlan,Guatemala
and
Margot's brother in law performed as well - a wonderful night of music.
Brian and I did a short slide show to show the changes effected
in Panyebar over the past few years which
the
crowd really liked and we sold our crafts. Robert ,a neighbour who
came to help us build the bathrooms at Panyebar 2 years ago, sold
delicious chocolate he made using Guatemala coffee, and 2 other ladies
made and sold Guatemala cookies and squares. Such a magical night and the
good news, - $1400.00 was raised for SaludosNinos!
We
will definitely do this kind of fundraiser again. Margot wants to make this an
annual event.
As well, we have been supported by another elementary school for
next year and a local canoe trip group
raised
funds for us too this weekend. So all and all, a very successful week for
SaludosNinos!
The early childhood education and medical team from Heritage
College has just returned to Canada. The workshop was a great success,
and the Panyebar visits were well prepared by Rosario who took care
of everything and was very efficient and organized. Heritage managed to donate
20 water filters to our families and have committed to more next year.
The people who supplied the filters did a presentation for the families,
went and
installed
the filters , then did followup visits to ensure everything was understood and
working well.WOW.
Now all we need is our charitable status. Wish us luck in
that department.We are hard at work on that.
The
Wakefield doctors are excited to return to help us next year and bring along
some nurses. The Heritage team will be working in India for Me to We, so we are
thrilled to have the doctors return with us to continue their examinations and
treatments of the families in our program, especially now that so many families
will have had
access
to clean drinking water for a whole year.
Thank you to all of you, the board members, for supporting
SaludosNinos! All our networking is paying off and we
really
appreciate your efforts to ensure that these wonderful women in Panyebar are
successful.
