Our AGM will be on the 17th June at Kate's house in Tennyson at 6.30pm followed by a dinner hosted by Kate.
We are in the process of organising our next load of toys to go to Assam. We spent a Saturday afternoon recently sorting and packing toys. Some of the toy libraries in Adelaide donate the toys they discard. Many of them are still very good. Our toys have gone to Dhemai, and an orphanage and drop-in centre for street children in Guwahati. We hope to open more toy libraries later this year.
Some members of the Edwardstown Lions Club have been busy making very nice tops for the children using scraps of material. In addition we will be sending art materials, sports equipment (cricket equipment is very popular) and musical instruments and we will buy two pedal powered sewing machines for Dhemai. Rupali's mother has volunteered to hold sewing classes in the village.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Quiz night fundraiser
We held the quiz night fundraiser on March 17th and with the help of some generous sponsors and 20+ tables of quizzers cleared $2100. All the money will go to supporting our efforts in Assam. Our only expenses were the hall hire, the cost of putting together the PowerPoint CD, a few prizes and balloons etc. Raelene made a beautiful quilt which was first prize in the raffle, Udoy and Rupali's neighbour made a decorated cake which was a table prize, we sold some weavings from Dhemai in the silent auction and Margaret Hess donated an auction item.
Our MC was John Kenneally from the ABC radio show the Bald Brothers who volunteered his time and effort both on the night and in putting together the questions. We are hoping to run a similar night in the Barossa Valley later in the year and John has volunteered again to do that.
Several members of the Edwardstown Lions club helped us set up for the evening and we were also helped out by several students from the Burnside Primary School who helped us in setting up and score keeping in the evening.
We'd like to thank our sponsors for the evening:
Oxfam
Charlesworth Nuts
The Cheesecake shop
Our MC was John Kenneally from the ABC radio show the Bald Brothers who volunteered his time and effort both on the night and in putting together the questions. We are hoping to run a similar night in the Barossa Valley later in the year and John has volunteered again to do that.
Several members of the Edwardstown Lions club helped us set up for the evening and we were also helped out by several students from the Burnside Primary School who helped us in setting up and score keeping in the evening.
We'd like to thank our sponsors for the evening:
Oxfam
Charlesworth Nuts
The Cheesecake shop
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