Eat So They Can Blog
Friday, February 3, 2012 - 2:59am
There is an ancient Chinese saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime". Hence, the ESTC team went fishing!
In 2011, several ESTC grants were used to help vulnerable women. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you about two of these grants that were used to provide training for women so that they can generate income to feed themselves and their children.
Association of Huchuy Yachaq
The small community of Hermnos Ayar in Peru tells the stories of many women living day after day in privation. Lacking in education and social status, these women often find themselves victims of poverty, discrimination and domestic violence.
Using an ESTC grant of US$5,000, the association set up workshops to train these women in jewelry-making. The program does not just stop there. In the workshops, these...
Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 10:53pm
On January 12, the GVN team gathered around our local policeman for our annual Grand Prize Draw! All our 2011 hosts who had raised more than $500 were entered into the Draw and the winner was to win an expense-paid trip to Kenya or Peru. It was an exciting moment when our policeman pulled out the name and announced the 2011 Grand Prize winner...
Adrienne Matheson! A huge congratulations from all the ESTC team to Adrienne!
Adrienne is from New Zealand and hosted her third...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 2:36am
Hi everyone!
This is our last ESTC blog for the year as we wind down for the Christmas and New Year period. This has been an amazing year for ESTC and we hope an amazing one for you to! The ESTC team want to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
As we look forward to 2012 we want to share an opportunity with you to really make 2012 a year to remember - the chance to join an Eat So They Can Distribution Trip!
Our funds distribution trips to Kenya and Peru offer participants the once in a lifetime opportunity to directly help with distributing funds raised through our Eat So They Can campaign. By joining this program you will be assisting on the ground and delivering...
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:04pm
Hello again!
I hope you enjoyed last week's update on the new Uganda projects. This week, we would like to take you on a trip to the village of Losinoni in Tanzania.
We recently sent out a grant of $1,159 to help fund AfricAid's lunch program at Losinoni Primary School. AfricAid is a nonprofit organization that supports girls’ education in Tanzania in order to provide young women with the opportunity to transform their own lives and the futures of their communities.
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 11:46pm
Hi everyone,
The ESTC team is excited to tell you that we’ve just sent out some new grants to our partners! In this blog post, we’ll focus on a $5,000 grant from our women’s empowerment cause which has just been sent to The Real Uganda. This grant will be used to support two projects:
YOFAFO’s micro-credit program
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Friday, November 25, 2011 - 3:21am
A warm welcome to Michelle Mitchell - we're so happy to have you join the Eat So They Can team!
Michelle is a business analyst by profession and performs all kinds of tasks ranging from project management to IT training. She also has experience in web design and development - yay!
When Michelle is not working...
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 2:36am
There are many reasons why a love my job, but this time of the year is definitely one of them! Over the past week I've been receiving emails, facebook messages, skype messages and letters from ESTC hosts in every corner of the world. Although this is my third year working on this campaign, our hosts' creativity and generosity never cease to amaze and inspire me!
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 8:16pm
With Eat So They Can 2011 right around the corner, hopefully you're all very busy planning your events! Here at the Eat So They Can office, we are flat out planning for the weekend ahead.
But we thought that amidst all the chaos, we thought you might like to hear about how one of our progress has come along in the past 12 months. The Real Uganda have been one of our key partner organisations over the last few years, and 2010 ESTC funds went towards building a goat farm, a sustainable initiative to support the children of Johnson Nkosi Memorial School and the surrounding community.
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Friday, October 7, 2011 - 3:31am
With just over a week to go, we’re getting really excited to kick off the Eat So They Can weekend for 2011. If you’d still like to host, it’s not too late! Here’s some event ideas that go down a treat. If you’ve already signed up to host, have a read anyway. It might inspire you to spontaneously theme your event. (Skip to the bottom to read about the GVN event for this year!)
Monday, September 26, 2011 - 9:10pm
Over the past few weeks you've heard a lot about the recent ESTC distribution trip to Peru. The trip was a great success, but this week we thought we'd update you on the ongoing impact of our other distribution trip earlier in the year, to Kenya. So this week's blog is a guest post from one of our partners in Kenya, ESTC distribution trip host and former staffer, Simon Hart.
"It has been a few months now since the Distribution Trip in Kenya, and the staff at VICDA have been busy visiting the projects that benefitted from your kind donations to assess how the money was spent and to begin planning...
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Amount raised this year
$1,208.18
Amount raised since 2007
$537,050.09
Eat So They Can is a fundraiser for the GVN Foundation, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization in the United States established in 2005.
GVN Foundation is proud to be in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
