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- Sunscreen for Tanzania
- Going red for Haiti
- Level Ground coffee available online
Sunscreen for Tanzania
Canadian Lutheran World Relief’s We Care program is collecting sunscreen for use by albino peoples living in Tanzania and Burundi. The sunscreen will be included with our traditional We Care kits and quilts in a shipment scheduled to leave Winnipeg on September 15.
The request for sunscreen has come from CLWR’s long standing partner, the Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service (TCRS) in Dar Es Salaam. This agency, which has been the recipient of ten previous We Care shipments, provides emergency and humanitarian relief to refugees and asylum seekers in Tanzania. On average, it assists 300,000 people annually including highly marginalized albinos living in rural areas of Burundi and Tanzania.
Please consider supporting this important shipment by sending new bottles of sunscreen (SPF of 45 or higher) to the CLWR warehouse in Winnipeg through our regular shipping channels. Please make sure the expiry date is not before March 1st, 2011.
To arrive in time, boxes destined to Winnipeg should be dropped off at shipping depots (e.g. Home Hardware stores) by September 1. Donations from the Winnipeg area will be accepted right up to the September 15th shipping date.
For more information about the We Care program in general or this shipment in particular, please contact Patrick Stewart by phone (1.800.661.2597 or 204.631.0112) or by email (Patrick@clwr.mb.ca).
To learn more about the work of TCRS, please visit www.tcrs.or.tz.
Going red for Haiti
Director Jackie Dubeau and assistant supervisor Stacey Geddes, both of Open Arms Early Childhood Centre, sported new hair colours not for fashion’s sake but in support of the Canadian Lutheran World Relief Appeal for Haiti.
The centre held a week-long fundraiser including a loose change drive, bake sale and lollipop sale raising $614. The centre's Board of Directors provided a matching donation bring the total to $1228. Besides the new hairdos, another staff member ate some squid as an incentive to get families giving.
To date, CLWR’s Appeal for Haiti has taken in more than $1.2 million. Approximately one-third of the money raised has gone to provide immediate assistance in the form of transitional housing and water and sanitation systems. The balance will be directed to the construction of permanent core housing once the logistics for that construction have been finalized.
-- with files from The Canadian Lutheran
Level Ground coffee available online
While CLWR is no longer operating its own fair and alternative trade program, we continue to encourage support for other organizations who offer such goods. One example is Level Ground, the organization that supplied coffee to our Four Corners program.
CLWR supporters can continue to purchase Level Ground coffee directly from that organization. To do so, visit the CLWR website and look for and click on the Level Ground logo.
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Canadian Lutheran World Relief’s We Care program is collecting sunscreen for use by albino peoples living in Tanzania and Burundi. The sunscreen will be included with our traditional We Care kits and quilts in a shipment scheduled to leave Winnipeg on September 15.
The request for sunscreen has come from CLWR’s long standing partner, the Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service (TCRS) in Dar Es Salaam. This agency, which has been the recipient of ten previous We Care shipments, provides emergency and humanitarian relief to refugees and asylum seekers in Tanzania. On average, it assists 300,000 people annually including highly marginalized albinos living in rural areas of Burundi and Tanzania.
Please consider supporting this important shipment by sending new bottles of sunscreen (SPF of 45 or higher) to the CLWR warehouse in Winnipeg through our regular shipping channels. Please make sure the expiry date is not before March 1st, 2011.
To arrive in time, boxes destined to Winnipeg should be dropped off at shipping depots (e.g. Home Hardware stores) by September 1. Donations from the Winnipeg area will be accepted right up to the September 15th shipping date.
For more information about the We Care program in general or this shipment in particular, please contact Patrick Stewart by phone (1.800.661.2597 or 204.631.0112) or by email (Patrick@clwr.mb.ca).
To learn more about the work of TCRS, please visit www.tcrs.or.tz.
Going red for Haiti
Director Jackie Dubeau and assistant supervisor Stacey Geddes, both of Open Arms Early Childhood Centre, sported new hair colours not for fashion’s sake but in support of the Canadian Lutheran World Relief Appeal for Haiti.
The centre held a week-long fundraiser including a loose change drive, bake sale and lollipop sale raising $614. The centre's Board of Directors provided a matching donation bring the total to $1228. Besides the new hairdos, another staff member ate some squid as an incentive to get families giving.
To date, CLWR’s Appeal for Haiti has taken in more than $1.2 million. Approximately one-third of the money raised has gone to provide immediate assistance in the form of transitional housing and water and sanitation systems. The balance will be directed to the construction of permanent core housing once the logistics for that construction have been finalized.
-- with files from The Canadian Lutheran
Level Ground coffee available online
While CLWR is no longer operating its own fair and alternative trade program, we continue to encourage support for other organizations who offer such goods. One example is Level Ground, the organization that supplied coffee to our Four Corners program.
CLWR supporters can continue to purchase Level Ground coffee directly from that organization. To do so, visit the CLWR website and look for and click on the Level Ground logo.
