Project Report
| Dec 3, 2012
Honor Tony's Birthday
By Laura Salazar | Project Leader
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Tony would say, "Donate to my fund or else!"
During the month of December Fabulous African Fabrics honors memory of FAF's founder's son, Anthony Salazar by asking for donations in his name. Tony passed away in 2005 of an AVM at the age of 37.
We've attached a picture of Tony at age 15 just to show you what a guy he was, full of energy and wit. He loved to experiment with his image and just who he could be. He went from the snarky teenager we see here to a generous and loving man. It is appropriate to honor his spirit and memory through gifts to the children of the Good Samaritan Children's Home in Nairobi Kenya, who also need the freedom to experiment and develop their personalities.
The fund goes to help FAF maintain emergency dollars for the orphanage. Last year this money paid high school tuition for teens at the Good Samaritan Children's Home. Next year we don't know where the money goes, but if you donate to Project 6163 now we know that there will not be such a chruch when it comes to collecting the $1000 per child per year for tuition.
We wish you the happiest of holidays, and a generous spirit.
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Oct 7, 2012
School Uniforms required along with Tuition
By Laura Salazar | Project Leader
![Top: Good shoes. Bottom: barefoot or flipflops]()
Top: Good shoes. Bottom: barefoot or flipflops
Usually our reports on this space emphasize the need for tuition funds for our children at the Good Samaritan Children's Home. Today we are asking you to consider the need for good sturdy shoes for the children to wear to school. Not only must teens have the money for tuition, but they also need be dressed properly to even walk into a classroom.
For this Bonus Day on October 17, we are asking you to make your contribution to our Project #7377, which provides new shoes to the students at the Good Samaritan Children's Home.Ten dollars purchases one pair of shoes. Our goal for this Bonus Day is to provide 100 shoes for the orphans of the Good Samaritan Children's Home--that means we raise $700 and with Global Giving's 30% match we will have enough money to see that 1 in 5 children at the home will have a new pair of shoes.
We know that you are interested in educating these worthy scholars. Now give them the extra boost with sturdy shoos for school. Go to Project 7377 on the 17th of October. Your donation must be made between 12:01 A.M. and 11:59 P.M. on the 17th. Make your donation early in the day, because when the money for the matching funds run out there will be no more. On last Bonus Day matching funds were all used up by 10:00 A.M.
The size of your donation does not matter. You can buy one pair of shoes for $10.00. Think about how happy and proud you will make on child.
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Sep 24, 2012
Fabulous African Fabrics Has Updated Website
By Laura Salazar | Project Leader
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Hats by Lucy for HS Tuition
Fabulous African Fabrics is constantly working to improve its organization and its opportunities. Our first website dating to 2007 was beautiful and useful. But it was no longer possible for us to add more new information to our web pages. This week we posted a revised website, keeping our former URL. We have added a page about our relationship with Global Giving, explaining how we became interested in GG, how we were able to become a part of Global Giving, and how people can donate to the Good Samaritan Children's Home through GlobalGiving.
It is easier to post pictures, sell items, and edit our pages with this new site. Please visit us at www.fabulousafricanfabrics.org and tell us what you like or don't like about this new site. We are still working on the website, so look for more features soon.
I enclose a picture of the African textile hats Lucy Ramshaw makes for FAF to sell.
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