Happy New Year to all our supporters
By Ben on Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Hope you all had a restful yuletide and have hit the 2010 ground running! The African workshop sure have!
It's that time of year again to board that flight with bags of goodies for the brilliant community of Yiri Madjos in Bamako. Ben is taking a solo trip this year to see how the project is moving forward. He hopes to make some progress with finding a plot of land to build the permanent community centre.
Amadou also tells us that the families of the children attending the project are invited to come and socialise and enjoy the music and games on the first sunday of every month. A great sign of a growing community environment!
We need to say a big THANK YOU to our friends at the DWP north east for their continual efforts to fund raise for us. We are a chunk of cash closer to that patch of land!
So please Ladies and Gentlemen, if you have any old mobile phones or footy kit the kids might have grown out of that you might like to donate to the African Workshop, PLEASE get in touch via here or the website. Ben leaves on the 30th Jan so no time to waste. Also if you would like to make a cash donation and help us leap towards our £5000 target please do so via the website. Maybe, if everybody could spare a bit, we could buy the land on this visit!!
Right then, I'm off to snuggle under a blanket and look at the snow, and dream of warmer climes.....................
Much love, Luce and Ben
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