Please note the following correction to the meeting minutes from June 21, 2016
Marg Hill and Moira Beauchesne volunteered to be responsible for the Linden Singers event, scheduled for March 12, 2017. Further volunteer opportunities will be posted as needed.
Thank you
Pamela Vest
The minutes of June 21, 2016 as well as the updated Directory are now posted to the website. You will find them and be able to download them in the password protected area of the website.
Bonnie Porat
Dear Friend of Kazuri
You are receiving this final Annual Report for Kazuri Jewellery: The Grandmother Connection (KJGC) as a supporter of KJGC. Because of generous grandmothers and grand-others like yourself, KJGC was able to donate almost $800, 000 to the Stephen Lewis Foundation over the nine-year lifetime of our not-for-profit business. It has been a great ride. We three managing partners, along with our Direction of Operations, Lori Blinn, have thoroughly enjoyed working with all of you to raise these funds for our sister grandmothers in Africa and their orphaned grandchildren. So many memories, so many new friendships forged over sorting and selling the beautiful Kazuri jewellery.
Please feel free to share this short report with other group members if you belong to a grandmother group. A large number of you were also friends who volunteered to host a sale for us. Thank you one and all.
We wish you a wonderful summer and hope that you, too, have fond memories of our work together.
Mary Jane Sterne, Peggy Edwards, Gay Coates
Managing Partners: Kazuri Jewellery: The Grandmother Connection (KJGC)
Welcome: Ann
New Members: Louise
New Member Tags: Ann
Finance : Pam
Bottle Drive: Lorna
Communications/ Changes: Pam
Help Wanted & Sign Up sheets
Ann
Jacquie:
Morganne: Posters
Marg: Sewers
Pam: Sunshine Lady
March 12 – Linden Singers
Dear Campaign GRLs and Main Contacts,
As you may have seen in our most recent Granny Bulletin, we’re hosting the first in a series of Telephone Town Halls for Grandmothers Campaign members! We would really appreciate if you could forward along this email to your group members, inviting them to join us on the call and to RSVP sometime this week.
What: Telephone Town Hall on the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS (adopted by the United Nations on June 8, 2016)
When: June 21, 1:00pm Eastern Time
Where: Conference call information will be sent by email to those who RSVP
Who: Campaign members and Lee Waldorf, the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Director of Policy and former human rights advisor to the United Nations
How: RSVP to campaign@stephenlewisfoundation.org and we’ll send you the call details- it’s that easy 🙂
Please RSVP individually so we have a sense of how many people are joining us. However, if you know that a few members of your group want to call in, we encourage you to consider getting together and calling in from one phone on speaker to help reduce costs.
10 years into the Campaign, we have heard from many members about their desire to learn more about the HIV and AIDS pandemic and ‘where we are at’. This call will answer some of those questions for you, as the intention of the town hall is to give deeper insight into HIV and AIDS in Africa and the international response for all members of the Grandmothers Campaign!
On the call, Lee will give us an overview, including the role of governments and funders in response to the declaration and how it’s most likely to impact African community-based organizations. Lee is such a wealth of information, and we know you will love hearing from her. There will be an opportunity to ask questions, although you certainly don’t have to speak in order to participate!
You can read a press release from UNAIDS about the Political Declaration here: http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2016/june/20160610_PR_HLM_closer
And you can read the full Political Declaration here (although you certainly don’t have to read it to participate; it’s very dense!): http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/documents/2016/2016-political-declaration-HIV-AIDS
As always, please be in touch if you have any questions. We hope you can join us!
Thanks!
The Grandmothers Campaign team
If you have an agenda item for our June 21 meeting, please send it to me by Friday June 19th so that it gets included in the posting
Thank you!!
Communications (substitute)
pamela.vest@gmail.com
Oceanside Grandmothers to Grandmothers 