Friday, September 10, 2010
Friends

Friends

We are a small charity with a hard-working team, including one member of staff and many volunteers. Below are a few comments from some of our partners, beneficiaries and supporters:

A supporter in Santa Barbara, California“Your organization is proof that small is good! I think you have accomplished more with less than any charitable organization I know. I'm very proud of you and all you are doing.”
Christine Akot, the Director of PAORINHER Centre, N4A’s main partner in northern Uganda“The training the Network for Africa team has delivered in Patongo has been unprecedented and so important for our people. NGOs are leaving this area even though there are still huge needs. We need to be empowered so that we can live peacefully and continue to sensitise the population on crucial issues like trauma and HIV. Your team and the training it has done has been immensely appreciated immensely by the community. You have trained so many people at grassroots level and empowered them to take positive action within their communities. Thank you for your amazing work.”
Aphrodice, a student at the Learning Centre“First of all let me thank Roz with her team who established this LC here in Rwanda, I want to also thank Network For Africa who teach us and give us materials like computers, text books, etc. After finishing secondary school it was difficult for me to afford to study English and computer skills. All of this was a dream but it became true because of Network for Africa. Now,I am able to speak and write English ,use a computer, and have friendships with people who live abroad. So for this reason I would like to be a volunteer here at the Learning Centre, to help to teach English.”
A supporter in Lincolnshire, England“There is no doubt you and your colleagues are doing a fantastic job. What strikes us is how much you are achieving with the money and resources available to you – amazing value for money which larger organisations are never able to replicate and of course much government money never benefits those for which it is intended.”

Jan_Feb_2009_050Carolyn Branch and her daughter Kate visited Rwanda with a Network for Africa team in 2005.

Congratulations to Kate and her husband Mike who, since then, have brought Carolyn Junior into the world.

Carolyn Senior has kindly made a generous donation to our orphans' project to mark this important occasion.

 

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The lovely staff at Liberty Wines have been raising money for Network for Africa's work in Patongo, northern Uganda by having a charity lunch at the end of each month - a delicious and fun way of raising money!

Organised and cooked by Di McCann and other 'guest' cooks of different nationalities in the office, they have already had two delicious 'Italian' Fridays with home-made vegetable lasagne, pizza, calzone and pizza fritta, spiced carrot cake and caprese chocolate tart. May's lunch is being prepared by guest cook from New Zealand, the winemaker Quintin Quider of Wild Earth, part of Liberty Wines' portfolio. Quintin is bringing fish from Australia to make Thai red curry or Laksa and Di is making Eton Mess for pudding. Spanish and French dishes will be on the menu over the next few months.

All proceeds from 'Lunch of the Month' go towards buying 55 bikes, 20 oxen and 10 ploughs for the Women's cooperative Ribbe Aye Teko in Patongo. The two lunches to date, plus staff donations for bottles of wine being given away, have raised just over £300.

Liberty Wines have also donated computers for our Learning Centre in Kigali, Rwanda, which means more students will be able to access the internet and learn IT skills.

We would like to thank all the staff at Liberty for their generous contributions and interest in our projects. The N4A staff are waiting for their invite to lunch!'

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The beautiful handcrafted cards that you receive in the mail are born of simple office waste. At Cards from Africa, we make all of our handmade papers from discarded scraps that would otherwise be destined to burn. Not only is this environmentally friendly, it also ensures that we have a large range of base colors and textures of paper to work with.

Without chemicals and using the traditional African method of making paper, we create various textures using natural products found in the wide open spaces surrounding our workspace.

Bougainvillea petals, Umunyinya (similar to pine needles), reflective mica rock flakes, and the imprint of woven grass mats are just a few things that we incorporate into our process of making unique paper with which to make unique greeting cards.

CardsFromAfrica.com

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Nia's grandparents have dedicated a donation to benefit Rwandan orphans in her name.

Stuart and Pauline Hemington of Lincolnshire in the UK are kindly supporting the school with an annual pledge in the name of their new granddaughter, Nia.

"Our granddaughter's name is Nia which is Welsh and meaning 'radiance and brightness'! I believe it is also an African name meaning 'purpose'."

At Christmas, Betsy and David Kain turned down the offer of presents and instead asked for a donation to the school to commemmorate their eighteen month old granddaughter, Amelia. If you wish to dedicate a classroom, a chair, a blackboard etc to someone special, please let us know.

A Canadian foundation dedicated to inspiring Africans and Canadians to make a difference in their lives. www.inspireafrica.org

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