Thank You. Thank You. Thank You.

Over the past few months I have been fundraising for Neema House and generally raising awareness about the plight of orphaned and abandoned children in Tanzania. I have been absolutely amazed at people’s generosity. For the most part I didn’t even need to fundraise – I went to churches and told them what I was doing and people came forward to contribute.

This past Sunday Mum and I hosted a fundraising baby shower for Neema House. We invited ladies from the churches in our area, as well as others who we thought would be interested in supporting the cause. $2500 was raised in just one afternoon!

Lots of yummy food!

The lovely Nora and myself

The ladies placed donations in envelopes pasted onto the back of paper baby shirts and hung them on the washing line.

People have been so generous contributing to Neema House – from 11-year-old Sam who put his chore money every week into the donation box, to people who baked cookies and sold them to workmates.

Thank you so much to the following groups and individuals:

• Hamilton Seventh-day Adventist primary school – your fundraising mufti day raised $300
• Hamilton Central Kids Church – last year you raised $1000 as part of a “kids helping kids” program. The Neema House babies are grateful to be the recipients!
•  The Community Whanau Church in Hamilton
• Cinnie and Hopi who cooked pies and baked cookies to raise money
•  Cambridge church
• Eastside church
• The ladies who came to the Neema House Baby Shower
• And to all the individuals who came forward and gave generously – from grandparents to old friends to children to family members

Altogether over the past few months have we raised over $5000 with more money still coming in.

A mere thank you to all of you will never be enough. Your contributions will help save lives.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

xoxo,

-Hannah