Tuesday 31st July
Graham:
Hi,
For several years now we have been sponsoring a Nepalese street child to go to boarding school in Katmandu. Now is the time of year that we donate some of the money ourselves and collect the rest by giving out envelopes in our bar to our customers and friends. The customer in the bar are in the main quite generous and Victor who does this job, receives donations varying from 5 euros to 20, 30 and one lady has even donated 50 euros. Last year we produced an info sheet with an old picture in of the little girl in black and white. Her name is Deepana. This year however we are taking a more professional approach to the fund raising. The charity is called, The Buddha Academy Children’s Home Trust and it was founded and is still coordinated by Layla Patterson. Layla managed to raise funds and get a voluntary film crew together and go to visit the children’s home in Nepal. She has made 73 hours of DVD footage and she is always looking for people who will edit her film voluntarily. Layla very kindly posted us a DVD to the bar, which contains an interview in English of the little girl we sponsor. Of course we were all really overjoyed to actually be able to see and hear her on DVD for the first time in 4 years, she is so pretty, polite and her English is coming along too.
We are going to use this DVD in our bar to help us collect the funds that we need to raise to pay for another year in the boarding school.
I have produced some still photos from the DVD, which Victor is showing to people when he hands out donation envelopes. He plans to have a “Deepana Night” in the Bar when he’ll present the relevant parts of the DVD to try to get any of our generous customers who we have not yet approached to give a little to this good cause.
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