Hi everyone,
Welcome to our blog. We are excited about our trip to Ethiopia in the coming month, if we can get internet access, we hope to be able to update you on our journey in Ethiopia through the blogosphere.
As many of you know, we held a small fundraiser back in March to raise money to sponsor a female grad student in Hawassa University (Awassa, Ethiopia). We were able to raise $2600, enough to pay for a student's living expenses for 2 years in Ethiopia. Thanks again for all those who donated their money and time for this worthy cause. We hope to be able to give this student the money we raised in person.
We would also like to thank Morris Industries for donating 36 (2 Gig) USB keys that we will bring with us to Ethiopia. We were told that many students would like to have USB keys but they are hard to come by. Hopefully they can make good use of the ones donated by Morris Industries.
We are also bringing a long with us a couple duffle bags full of bras, underwears and feminine products to Addis Ababba. Saba from Saba's African Cuisine (http://www.whattodoinsaskatoon.com/ads/pages/saba/default.htm) is also going to Ethiopia this May. She's collecting donation items to give away to Eritrean women refugees. We are helping her to some of these donation items over so she doesn't have to pay for the extra luggage.
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