Entries from November 2007

November 28, 2007

Expanding our reach

The necklaces will soon be available in Simcoe thanks to Holy Trinity Catholic High School. They will be helping sell 100 of the necklaces to support our project! Go Trinity!
Thanks for organizing this Stephanie Haak!

November 26, 2007

What a great start!

Well, we sent around an email yesterday (Sunday) night to announce the fundraising necklace project to our small circle of friends and in the just 24 hours we have sold over 65 necklaces! I visited the Rotary Club of Waterdown this evening to tell the rest of the club about the project and sold another [...]

November 21, 2007

The Goods have Arrived!

We are very excited (and a bit relieved) that our necklaces from Uganda arrived today! We will begin selling them today for just $10 with all (yes, all!) proceeds going back to Africa through our Rotary connections so we know each and every dollar will make it to its destination. We have almost 500 to [...]

November 4, 2007

Next steps… a new project in the works

Since I’ve been back I have had more than a few ideas for some projects – to take what I learned on this experience and do something with it. I have been discussing a few ideas and then last week I can up with one idea in particular that just seemed so simple and made [...]

November 4, 2007

Presentations

Just a quick update. Since I’ve been back I have been doing a few presentations to various Rotary clubs showing my photos and telling stories of the adventures we had. A few weeks ago I was asked to present to the Dundas Valley Rotary club as the speaker for their Paul Harris awards night, a [...]