If you love great recipes for soups and muffins here’s an opportunity to support our cause.
The cookbooks are selling for $10 each with all net proceeds providing direct support to bereaved grandmothers, in Sabie, South Africa, who are raising their orphaned grandchildren as a result of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. If you would like to arrange to buy a cookbook, please email us at granniesagogo@gmail.com.
These will be selling fast at only $10 each!
Granny’s Treasure Trunk Catches Dreams
On Saturday, May 29, from 8:00 a.m. to Noon, at Trinity United Church parking lot, Grannies à Gogo: the Vernon – South Africa Connection will hold the second annual Granny’s Treasure Trunk – a sale of new and used treasures.
The Vernon Grannies, now in their third year of existence, continue to live the dream of bringing hope to the Gogos (Zulu for “grandmothers”) of Sabie, South Africa, who struggle to raise AIDS-orphaned grandchildren. In the African culture the responsibility for the care of elderly parents falls to the adult children. However, with the deaths of so many adult children, grandparents are faced with emotional and financial burdens – funeral expenses, raising grandchildren and paying school fees, and their own deteriorating health. Financial help from the Vernon area has enabled the formation of Sitabogogo (Zulu for “help a grandmother”), an organization that provides social and educational benefits to the Gogos.
Grannies Beth Desimone, Janis Lauman and Maureen Sieg display the Sock It Aways which are being distributed in our community.
Grannies à Gogo continues to fundraise to fulfill the dream of bringing hope to their Gogo partners. For this reason the Steering Committee created the position of “Dreamcatcher”. The idea of catching and recording ideas for fundraising projects appealed to Janis Lauman who volunteered for the job. It wasn’t long before Janis organized the “Sock It Away” campaign. Using recycled socks and pill containers, she created over one hundred sock banks, most of which are now being filled by folks who empty their pockets of handfuls of change. Parents who wish to teach their youngsters the value of sharing are picking up the very small containers. Sock It Away banks will be available at the Treasure Trunk sale on May 29. For info please phone Janis (250 549-3098)
All funds raised by Grannies go directly to African grandmothers in Sabie. Any doubt that the Vernon group is making a difference will be dispelled when you read this quote from a letter written by Grieta Maphanga: “I joined Sitabogogo project in 2009. Oh it’s wonderful. I was so lonely at home but now I feel strong and energetic because we always laugh.”
Info contacts: Shirley Grabinsky (250 542-4285) or Beth Desimone (250 542-7379)
Date: Saturday May 29th
Location: Trinity United Church parking lot
Time: 8:00 am- Noon
As you’re spring cleaning we hope you will set aside treasures for the sale such as books, jewelry, household items, sporting and camping equipment, baked goods, home-made crafts, clothing and shoes, garden plants etc. to sell at the Grannies Treasure Trunk Sale
Each granny will price and sell her own items from a table or blanket at her car and take away any unsold items. Invite a friend to participate- share a car, share a table. Participants will bring their own cash float and will turn in all funds raised to support our GOGOs in Sabie
We hope you will mark this fun event on your calendar and plan to participate, either by selling OR buying!
Sock-it-Aways are being given to all who would like to participate in our ingenious fundraising project. The idea is that until the next collection of socks, we place our loose change in these unique “piggy banks.” The first collection on October 23, 2010 raised over $2500 for the Gogos in Sabie, South Africa. Many Grannies à Gogo supporters kept their Sock-it-Aways in anticipation of the next “sorting and counting” party. With a few more Sock-it-Aways in circulation and a few more coins, the “every penny counts” fundraiser would raise even more. We are very excited by the ease with which we can help the Sitabogogo Gogos with this “no cost” project. Please contact us at granniesagogo@gmail.com if you would like to sign out a Sock-It-Away for Grannies bank.
Using photos of very special Christmas hangings created by Beauty Manzini, one of our Sitabogogo grannies, we have printed Christmas cards to sell as a fundraiser. The net proceeds from the sale of the cards will provide direct support to grandmothers in Sabie, South Africa raising their AIDS-orphaned grandchildren. The cards are in packages of 8, 4 cards of each design, and sell for $10 per package. To order cards, email Grannies à Gogo: granniesagogo@gmail.com. Shipping can be arranged for out-of-town and out-of-province orders.
Click the photo to see more views of the cards.
Christmas Card Fundraising Project: 8 cards for only $10
Forty guests enjoyed a South African culinary safari hosted by Grannies à Gogo on November 7, 2009. Teams of ten, the Elephants, the Cheetahs, the Giraffes and the Lions, visited four host homes, The Wallow, The Veld, The Watering Hole and the Savanna, to partake in a four course, unforgettable, South African meal. The event raised over $1600. The net proceeds from the Kitchen Safari will provide direct support to Sabie, South African grandmothers caring for their AIDS – orphaned grandchildren. Thanks to the generous donations by members of Grannies à Gogo, the costs of offering this unique fund raising event are negligible.
The Elephants are about to partake in Tipsy Tarts at Schroeder's Savanna.
Please click on the photo to visit the Kitchen Safari Photo Album. To return to the Grannies à Gogo web site, click on the back arrow at the top of your screen.
Do you shop at Nature’s Fare? Nature’s Fare will donate 5% of the total of our Nature’s Fare receipts (minus tax) to Grannies à Gogo. Please save your receipts and submit them to Joan (phone 250 545 6479 or email joanmckean@shaw.ca to make arrangements). Joan will collect the receipts, do the math and submit our receipts on the appropriate due dates to Nature’s Fare and ensure that the cheque is sent to Grannies à Gogo. Easy!! Start saving those receipts!
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