Mikinduri Children of Hope is offering individually quick frozen wild blueberries for sale. Proceeds support agricultural development in Mikinduri, Kenya. 5kg (11 lb) boxes cost $35. Enjoy a taste of summer and support a great cause. To order and for pick up information contact Jane Farmer 566-4021 or George Likely at 368-3576
Thanks to everyone who joined in the Tip2Tip4Africa, cycling across PEI on Thanksgiving weekend! We raised a great amount of money for the Township Project and Mikinduri Children of Hope!
Congratulations to Art Buote who received the prize for top fundraiser in the 2011 Tip 2 Tip – a 32” flat screen TV donated by Leon’s. Art raised $2090 for the cause this year. Congratulations Art!!
Jackson and Olivia Lea, kids of Alana and Jason, gave up all their birthday gifts by requesting that people donate cash. They donated the $300 to MCOH! We are very grateful and impressed with their charitable spirit at such a young age!
Sunday, September 04, 2011, 08:00am – Metro Credit Union in Stratford
Registration is at 8 am with the 5K walk/5K run/15K run starting at 9 am. The registration fees are as follows: $10 for the 5K walk or run, $15 for the 15K run or $20 per family. Following the race join us for African food, refreshments, African music and door prizes. African wood carvings, jewellery and artwork will be given away as door prizes and also available for purchase. Major sponsor is Stratford Metro Credit Union. All proceeds go to support Mikinduri Children of Hope Foundation, a PEI based charity that does poverty and health relief work in Kenya.
Taken from the Rotary Club of Hillsborough’s website:
At recent meeting of the Rotary Club of Hillsborough President Doug Bridges presented to Ted Grant, Head of the “Children of Hope” Foundation, a donation of $1000 to support the work of the Foundation in Minkinduri, Kenya.
The Foundation, organized and run by Mr. Grant, is a PEI-based charity that helps relieve poverty and sickness in the Minkinduri area. Minkinduri is in a poor rural area of the country where the people make less than $1.00 per day from their labours and must support themselves on a small plot of land. Many of the children are orphaned due to loss of parents to AIDS and suffer from malnutrition and illnesses such as HIV and malaria.
The people are hardworking and strive to make a better life for themselves and their children by working with the Foundation on various projects. The Foundation helps the people by developing feeding programs at local schools, helping to improve education by providing scholarships, and installing wells and pipelines so that the people can have clean water without having to walk miles each day to obtain it. Local volunteers and parents provide most of the labour to run the feeding programs and installation of infrastructure. Volunteers from Canada, who go to Kenya to help complete projects, pay their own way and their own expenses.
In international service, the goals of the Rotary Club of Hillsborough are to support projects that improve skills training, literacy, community health, food sufficiency, and the provision of safe, clean water. The Minkinduri Foundation is doing great work in Kenya and their goals of promotion of health, education and food security are very similar to those of the Rotary Club of Hillsborough.
The Rotary Club of Hillsborough-Charlottetown is very pleased to provide this small donation to assist the Foundation in achieving its goals.
Jerry Ivany
World Community Service Committee
On August 28th, while many were enjoying the Stanley Cup Parade and shaking hands with Adam McQuaid, Mikinduri Children of Hope was serving food. Adam picked MCOH as one of the charities that were allowed to fundraise at the event. Thank you to all of the volunteers and all of the sponsors who donated so much: Cavendish Farms Fries, Farmers Dairy, APM Center, and McCain French Fries! Over $6,000 was raised which will be matched by a very generous donor. See you Sept 4th at the Rotary Run for our next fundraiser!
Karen Mair of Mainstreet CBC Radio interviewed Ted Grant concerning the Stanley Cup Event in which Adam McQuaid picked Mikinduri Children of Hope as one of the charities to raise money at the event. During the event nearly 50 volunteers represented MCOH and served hot dogs, cotton candy, Cavendish French Fries, ice cream, TLC popcorn, and slushies! Nearly $6000 was raised for the poorest of the poor of Mikinduri! Listen to the whole interview here:
Early Bird Registration Draw: Tip 2 Tip for Africa – 3 day bike ride on PEI’s Confederation Trails this October 8-10. Register by September 15th to be entered into a draw to win a great prize! www.tip2tip4africa.org