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July 2010 Eat So They Can Newsletter |
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July 2010 Eat So They Can Newsletter |
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Dear Friends, There have been rumours flying around that this year the Grand Prize winner will be able to choose between joining a distribution trip to Peru, Haiti, Vietnam or Kenya. Well, I have some good news - the rumours are true! As you know Eat So They Can is now a global fundraiser supporting projects around the world through our four causes. Therefore our Grand Prize winner will be able to pick their dream trip to one of our four locations. Our trip to Peru will be based out of Cusco and will involve distributing funds to a women's empowerment project as well as a number of childcare projects in small communities in the Andes. Our trip to Haiti will involve distributing funds to projects in Jacmel which are helping Haitians to gradually rebuild their lives after the January 12 earthquake. In Vietnam, we'll be visiting a number of orphanages and schools which desperately need our help to provide food, education and medical care to their children. And in Kenya, we'll be distributing supplies to schools, orphanages and IDP camps both in Nairobi and in surrounding communities. To be entered into the Grand Prize Draw you need to raise a minimum of US$500 or the equivalent in your currency (click here for more details). In addition, ALL hosts who raise over $20,000 will win a free trip. We really hope that as many of you as possible will be able to join us so please don't hesitate to send me an email if you'd like any advice or ideas. Thank you so much! Warm Regards, Courtney ESTC Co-Founder and GVN Foundation Director |
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Call to action - Spread the word!So far we have 530 hosts signed-up for Eat So They Can. This is amazing but we need a lot more if we’re going to reach our goal of raising $500,000. Last year nearly 80% of our hosts joined Eat So They Can because they were recommended to do so by someone they knew. Help us do it again this year and spread the word by sharing information about Eat So They Can with anyone and everyone you know. Here are the top 4 things we would like you to do right now: 1. Sign-up as a host here 2. Join our facebook fan page
3. Copy and paste the following onto your facebook wall or tweet it: I’m so excited about Eat So They Can this year! Check out their new website: www.eatsotheycan.org 4. Send an email to your friends by clicking here |
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How to make the most of your profile pageNew for 2010, all of our hosts now have access to personal profile pages. A huge thank you to Julie Metivier for making this possible! When you sign-up as a host you will be emailed your username and password which you can use to log-in and edit your page. Here are some ideas for how to use your profile page: 1. Promote your eventYou can send around the link to your profile page to your friends and family as an invitation to your event. 2. Collect donations for your eventWe recommend using your profile page to collect donations for your event. All your supporters have to do is click on the ‘support me’ button, select how much they wish to donate and enter in their credit card information. It's simple, fast and totally secure. All donors will receive a thank you receipt and US donors will be able to use their receipt for tax purposes. 3. Monitor your progressYou can use your profile page to see who has donated to you and how much you’ve raised so far. Just check out the colourful thermometer in the right-hand column of your profile page. |
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Art For Social Change by Kelsey MontagueI want to take this opportunity to tell you about an amazing lady called Kelsey Montague who has created a series of Haiti pen and ink drawings exclusively for GVN Foundation. Her unique work incorporates 'drawings within drawings', giving each print multiple meanings, emotions and perspectives. The drawings were inspired by both the plight of the Haitian people and by their indomitable spirit. "After the news broke about the earthquake, and the immense loss and suffering of the Haitian people, I felt a terrible sense of helplessness. I wanted to contribute in any way that I could, and the most natural way for me was through art," says Kelsey. "It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the situation in Haiti because the needs are so great, but this is exactly why we must get involved. When a nation of people has lost everything, even the smallest gesture is a great gift. Every effort, no matter how large or small, will have an impact, whether through donations, volunteering or spreading the word and encouraging friends and family to get involved," says Kelsey. Please show your support by sharing her artwork with your friends and family. You might also wish to purchase one of her drawings and have it as an auction item or raffle prize at your event. 50% of the sale price of each print will go directly to the Haiti Relief Fund. View and purchase Kelsey's work at Artists for Change at www.gvnfoundation.org/programs/art_for_change/. To support Haiti through Eat So They Can, sign-up as a host and select the Emergency Relief cause.
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New AmbassadorsWe are excited to announce that we now have 21 Eat So They Can ambassadors! Along with our previously mentioned ambassadors in the June newsletter, we'd like to welcome our newest ambassadors Kayla Clausen, Éadaoin O'reilly, Randel Tomina, Lauren Jones, Jamie Hayles, and Jessica Smith. Also, a special welcome to our youngest ambassador, Ana Dodson who is a former CNN hero and the founder of Peruvian Hearts. We had our first conference call with our ambassadors yesterday and after hearing amazing plans and ideas from every corner of the world we were all left buzzing! We'll be holding our first conference call for hosts in August and can't wait to hear more stories and event ideas then. We'll be emailing you closer to the time with details on how to join the call. |
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Feature Cause - Women's EmpowermentWe’ve just updated our causes page so that you can learn more about which of our partners will be supported through each cause. Check it out here. In the next few editions of our newsletter, we’d like to give you an idea about the difference that your funds will make. Each newsletter is therefore going to have a 'feature cause' and we're going to start this month by telling you a bit more about our Women's Empowerment cause. One of the projects that will be benefiting from this cause is called Kusi Qoyllor which means Happy Star in Quechua. Kusi Quoyllor is a community center located in the mountains near Cusco and runs capacity-building workshops for mothers. By training the mothers in areas such as textile production, Kusi Qoyllor is giving these women an opportunity to provide for their children and gain status in their families. They are also providing an alternative for women from this community who typically are forced to spend long days selling on the streets at the expense of spending time with their children. ESTC Host Mentor, Eliza Raymond, recently visited this project and was very inspired by the work they are doing. "The project is run by an incredible lady called Marlene and she has so many ideas and plans for the future but is very limited by resources. Supporting Kusi Quoyllor through Eat So They Can will make a huge difference to what they are able to achieve. I'm hoping that we'll be able to set up some new workshops and also extend the program to more mothers from the community." |
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Action and AdvocacyNational Culinary Arts MonthIn celebration of National Culinary Arts Month, the Eat So They Can team is updating their recipe guide which will appear in our new online resource guide. If you have any interesting international recipes, please email them to us! We hope that our new recipe guide will include at least one recipe from each country we'll be supporting so we're particularly interested in recipes from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Africa, Vietnam, the Philippines, Nepal, India, Peru and Ecuador. |
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