Events and Sponsors

Registered Charity Number 1125285

Faraja Support Autumn

Fayre

Our longest serving trustee Jill Perry undertook the mammoth task of running the fayre and she did a brilliant job. Thank you Jill. She had hoped to clear £500 but in the end we made a profit of over £600. Thanks to everyone who turned out on a lovely Saturday to help. The cake stall was amazing, clothes, books and bric flew out of the door and various other games and stalls all did steady business.

Thank you to the Baptist Church in Aylestone who let us use the hall for very little cost.

A MASSIVE Thank You to:

Granby School Aylestone Leicester.

They donated to the charity a cheque for £253-55. The children enjoyed a short talk about Usalama and the children and we are working now to form longer-term links between Granby and our children

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SPONSORS

We continue to do well - especially with our loyal band of individual sponsors. You are the bread and butter of the charity and we couldn’t do it without you.

A special thank you to Mr A. Who wishes to remain anonymous - he sponsored all our children to their education last year and has agreed to continue this sponsorship this year. This is a very generous donation and we are all grateful to him.

Thank you also to Emma who is sponsoring Elia and also to Lionel who is sponsoring Aron.

There are too many others to mention but you know who you are and we love you all.

Costs are rising steeply in Tanzania so we need to recruit more sponsors in order to keep pace with the rise.

Open Gate Charitable Trust

We have recently received

a cheque for £1000. This money is to be ring-fenced for sustainable energy usage and the Trustees have decided to keep the money in reserve for solar installation in the new house when we finally get it.

We installed a simple solar panel at Usalama House in January 2011.. Mike our current chair worked hard to put this project together and contributed a substantial amount of his own money towards the installation. He worked closely with a renewable specialist in Arusha.

The house now has lighting (LED’s) and enough power to operate a computer, a radio and charge mobiles.

Faraja Support/ Bassett Community Centre Quiz Evening.

On November 25th 2011 we are joining forces with the Bassett Centre in South Wigston to hold our quiz. The evening will run from7.30pm - 10.00pm. Tickets are £4. Nibbles provided and tea/coffee will be available in the breaks. Please brings your own drinks and other food if you wish.
Teams are a maximum of 6 - if you want to attend and are not part of a team that is fine - we will make up teams on the night.
Our quiz master for the night will be Tony Booth - experienced in quizzing and manager of SureStart Wigston.
Many prizes will be on offer and a small raffle will be held.
Contact Mike and Helen for tickets and further information.