With Christmas holidays now over, PULSE volunteers Michelle and Neil are working on a Charity Fundraiser for the 3rd of March for The Thoughtful Path: Munsieville. It will be our first one here in South Africa and our first one to organise as well. Project HOPE has been very successful in the UK with fundraisers and, with their help and others here, we hope that we can raise some money to be able to run many programmes as part of The Thoughtful Path, to help the orphans and other vulnerable children.
The Charity Fundraiser will take place at the Silverstar Casino, which is very near Munsieville and thus we hope to get businesses nearby as well as corporations to take a table. Silverstar is a beautiful casino with a fountain that is similar to Bellagio in Las Vegas. It has music playing while the fountain - supposedly the largest in the Southern Hemisphere - spurts its water high up in the air. We are working with several people to get entertainment, auction items (anyone have a signed piece of memorabilia you would like to donate to a great cause?) and celebrities (again, anyone know Madonna, George Clooney or Angelina Jolie??) to come to have a real draw for the evening.
Also some wonderful news came today that Courier IT will cover the cost of our shipping the books from the Ishikawa/AZ book drive for the orphans and vulnerable children of Munsieville. They will be so excited to get such an unexpected gift.
Check out the YouTube video of the Christmas Festival that Project HOPE UK director Paul Brooks put together. It is about 10 minutes long but well worth the time. It really shows how much fun the children had and what a blessing it was (even with all of the chaos behind the scenes) for the community of Munsieville. There were many children there who never have experienced anything like this in their lifetime. Although the festival is over, you can still make a donation towards our Early Childhood Development programme and help give the children of Munsieville a positive future.
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