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UPCOMING EVENTS
April 27, 2008
Dear Friends
of Thembanathi,
Our fund raising efforts for 2008 are getting
off to a good start. The following
events are scheduled for this spring and summer. Hope you can
stop by one or
more of them. We'd also appreciate your help in spreading the
word. Please
forward this email to any family or friends you think may be
interested. Also,
if you know of other events we could participate in, I'd love to hear
about
them.
Sunday,
May 4, First Congregational Church, 1050 E.
23rd, Eugene, in the Wheeler
Room, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm (We will be doing a presentation about
Thembanathi and
the Aids Pandemic in the KwaZulu Natal region in South
Africa.)
Friday,
May 9, World AIDS Orphans Day
event, First Unitarian Church of
Portland, SW 12th and Main, in Fuller Hall, 6:00 to 9:30 pm.
(Stephen Lewis,
the United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from 2001 to
2006,
former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and Canadian Ambassador to
the UN
will be speaking at 7:00 pm)
Thursday,
May 15, Girl's Night Out, Aesthetic Surgical
Arts & Skin Enhancement
Center, 2550 Willakenzie Road, Eugene, 5:00 to 9:00 pm (Note - this is
a benefit
for the Relief Nursery.)
Sunday,
May 18, First Unitarian Church of
Portland, SW 12th and Main, in Fuller
Hall, 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Saturday,
June 14, Day of the African Child Event,
World Forestry Center in
Washington Park, 4033 SW Canyon Rd, Portland, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Friday
and Saturday July 18 and 19, 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and Sunday, July 20,
10:00
am to 5:00 pm, Salem Art Fair and Festival,
Bush's Pasture Park, Salem.
(Salem Art Fair is the largest juried art festival of its kind in the
state of
Oregon and my favorite art festival.) (I need volunteers to
help me staff this
event. Please get in touch if you'd be willing to help.)
Thanks for your continued support.
Helen Towle,
Thembanathi, "Hope with Us"
Supporting
South African women, orphans and vulnerable children in communities
impacted by
the HIV epidemic
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