Hello all: I received the following message from Belinda Swank yesterday, and I have made my contribution to help her out with her next venture to Nepal. Belinda and her husband are from Houston and in past few years have made several trips to Nepal to help out local schools in Kathmandu area. To read their extra-ordinary contributions to the local schools, please visit : https://facebook/belinda.swank?fref=ts . On behalf of Belinda, I would like to request you all to make small contributions that can help her meet goals. Any amount is big enough to make a difference...and together we all can make a difference by uniting together. God Bless. Dear xxxx The time is getting closer for me to leave on the “Where the is Color there is Hope” trip and I have worked for two years on this project. As you do know I have never over the years raised funds to pay for my expenses for the trips, and all donations went directly to the projects. It has all been self-funded up till now. I will be leaving for 8 months in September and the cost of the workshops for 8 months, art supplies, living expenses and the flight ticket is too much for me to save in such a short period. The time to leave is getting closer and I realize I need to ask for your help. The reason for planning this trip for such a long time, is that doing the short trips to do the art projects only has a small impact and the teachers and children are so much wanting to learn more. And the only way to do that is to spend a longer time at the schools and begin to set up teacher training workshops so that we can reach more teachers and schools. The cost of my flight ticket is $1750 and I had won $500 from Travel2Change towards my ticket. But that still leaves me to save $1250, visa fees are $40 per month and living expenses is minimum $300 a month. This is the costs without the art supplies and basic things like paper we need, and the supplies we would need to have for the workshops. As you know by now the art and teacher training workshops are provided free to the schools and the communities in the rural areas of Nepal. For these 8 months any teacher or artist joining me is paying for their own expenses and I do not charge them any fees for setting this up. I know you probably get so many requests each day asking for donations from all over, but I hope that my character, my work and my heart has shown you what I believe. If you could make a small donation, I would be so grateful and it would mean so much. My paypal as well as my email address is watersfromheaven@gmail and I can always send you my home address if needed. Thank you for all your support over the years as it has given me the will to continue. Thank you again! I have added a link to two videos of the project for your viewing. youtube/watch?v=zEyxlohxVAo&feature=youtu.be youtube/watch?v=AtHMUKf24bo Warm regards Belinda
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:07:33 +0000
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