| HOME | CHARITIES | VOLUNTEER | YOU CAN HELP | CONTACTS | ABOUT US | NEWSLETTER SIGNUP |
| April 2008 Newsletter | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IN THIS ISSUE:
Don’t forget to add your friends to our newsletter! GARAGE SALE -- ECO FUND RAISING
Reduce, reuse and recycle! We are planning our second annual fund raising Garage Sale. It’s time to do your spring cleaning and give away those unused items. DATE: June 28, 2008 If you don’t live in the Boulder area, plan your own CWR fund raising garage sale in your own neighborhood. You are welcome to copy our website content to make posters and for media write-ups for your volunteer fund raising garage sale. Call us if you have any questions, want to drop off garage sale items or have time to volunteer to price and work the sale. FREE A CHILD
Volunteer Trip
The 10th Anniversary Free A Child volunteer trip in October 2008 is in full swing! This is a great opportunity to learn first-hand about child sex trafficking and the programs that are helping to empower girls and women to avoid the trafficking traps. Here are the details:
Itinerary
You can add on extra days in Kathmandu before or after the itinerary. A trek from Pokhara can also be done starting on October 16. SHALOM ORPHANAGEStatus
Robin Paschall visited the Shalom Orphanage in January 2008. This was her first visit to their new building in which the kids are housed and schooled. Compared to the old building, the new one is very roomy and nice. However, the construction is still not complete, so there are no ceilings in the rooms, no paint on the walls, the electrical is not hooked up, there is only one functioning shower room, and furniture is very scarce. Shalom received generous donations from the Grace Church in North Fork, CA and Kim Lavold’s school, Crest Hill Middle School of Highlands Ranch, CO.
Colleen Todd is a local photographer who is donating a portion of the profits from her photographs to the Shalom Orphanage. We enjoyed her photos at the Winot Coffee Shop in Niwot this year! Colleen and her husband Jim Robinson visited Shalom Orphanage last year while on safari. In March two women from Vail, Colorado volunteered for a few days at the Shalom Orphanage. Their local Girl Scout troop also donated $300 cash plus $200 of clothing. Here is an article from the Vail Daily: GLOBAL PORTERS PROJECTStatus
Robin Paschall met with the International Mountain Explorers Connection (IMEC) while in Tanzania to discuss porter treatment in Tanzania, Nepal, and Peru. In addition to donating clothing and mountain gear to the porters, CWR will sponsor classes for the porters in Tanzania during the low season of April and May.
Porters need warm clothing including jackets, hats, gloves, rain pants, rain jackets, shoes, boots, and medical supplies. Due to the high cost of shipping, we need funds earmarked for shipping ($100/bag), and volunteers willing take extra bags with them when traveling to areas in need. Volunteers, who are willing to teach the porters special skills including English, customer service skills, basic money management, mountain cooking, first aid, and health education are also needed. PERU SCHOOLSStatus
CWR continues to support remote schools in various parts of Peru. Our focus is to assist schools that are not in the main tourist areas and do not see many visitors or donations. CWR is now supporting children in Boca Amigo, a village in the remote jungle of Peru, the Children's Land Promotion Center (CPTiNi) in Puerto Maldonado, and the Rumira public school near Ollantaytambo. The schools need supplies like paper, pencils, pens, crayons, pencil sharpeners, staplers, etc. Some volunteers take supplies with them, but most find it more economical to purchase supplies locally in Peru. WE CAN USE YOUR HELP!
Namaste, Robin Paschall |
Kim is a teacher who visited the orphanage in 2007. After giving a presentation to her students, the kids volunteered to hold a bake sale and clothing drive. They raised over $1000 and a dozen boxes of kid’s clothes and school supplies.
Donations from One World Running (shoes and boots), the City of Vail (over 150 jackets), and individuals are packed into large duffel bags and sent as check-in baggage with volunteers traveling abroad. A Vail 4-H group helped sew patches on the donated jackets and FedEx donated shipping as well.