Project Report
| Aug 14, 2012
Last days to vote for our photo!
By Tanya Weaver | Executive Director
Friends, we are hanging on to first place in the Global Giving photo contest, but by a thread. Can you please help us win by voting here http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=21 and by asking friends to vote and to share on Facebook, Twitter, and by email?
At this point, we have $6,000 in prize money and matching grants hanging on winning this photo contest, so please help us win. Voting ends on Wednesday at noon EST.
Thanks so much, all.
On behalf of the children,
Tanya
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Aug 1, 2012
Photo Contest - Votes Needed to Help our Project
By tanya weaver | executive director
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happy!
Dear friends,
One of the photos taken by the American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA) has been selected as a finalist in a contest hosted by Global Giving. Here is the link where you can vote for our photo http://www.globalgiving.org/poll/vote/?pollOptionId=21/. I took this photo while in Zimbabwe during a goat distribution to grandmothers who are raising AIDS orphans.
The photo which receives the most votes by noon on August 15th will win $1000 for the organization from GG, plus $3000 extra in matching grants we've been pledged AND it will be highlighted on the Global Giving home page, which opens us up to many more donations. Voting starts on August 1 at noon EST, so we must get ready to vote and to ask others to vote as well.
Only one vote will be accepted per email address, so voting more than once from the same email address does not count.
Please send out emails and post on social media as soon as you can. Think creatively, too. You can take your laptop to a café and you can ask people to vote for us right then and there. Or, take your smartphone to work and ask all of your colleagues to vote.
On behalf of the kids,
tanya
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Jun 20, 2012
In Zimbabwe
By Tanya Weaver | Executive Director
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A boy and his goats
My family and I are spending the summer in Zimbabwe, seeing first hand and in detail how the projects AFCA has supported are doing. We are also having the amazing opportunity to deliver livestock and experience the joy felt by the guardians and children who receive the gifts. We are simply loving every minute of this adventure, even when we don't have electricity or water for 24 hours at a time. Wednesday is a good day because we have both water and electricity all day long...the only day of the week.
Yesterday, we delivered 60 goats to 20 families in a small village called Coronation, outside a town called Masvingo. It was so exciting! I got to tag ears while a veterinary vaccinated the animals. We handed them out to the families and rejoiced as they sang, clapped and stomped, showing their happiness at the gift. They know that if they follow our process, they will soon become self-reliant, able to pay for their own medicines, school fees, rents, and food. This is our goal - work ourselves out a of a job. We have a long way to go, but little by little, we will get there.
Thank you for being part of this great work! We couldn't do it without you. If you'd like to follow our adventure, please check out http://afcaids.blogspot.com/.
Tanya
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Thank you from Masvingo
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