Central
Coast BPW (Australia) continues to support
Project 5-0 by organising Christmas raffles
and Barbecue Club meetings. Donations are
forwarded to the Project 5-0 Global Peace
Village housing scheme.
The
club also funds a student Eva, at the Project
5-0 funded Nursing School in La Paz, Mexico.
Our BPW Club funded the building the new
extension of the school by selling bricks
at AUD$100 each.
In
April, we raised AUD$2,000 to buy twenty
birthing kits at AUD$170 each for our member
Margaret Aggar to take on her next trip
to East Timor. Margaret is a member of Central
Coast BPW. She is a midwife and a childbirth
educator. On her annual leave from the Gosford
Hospital, she travels each year to Dili,
East Timor, to educate and assist midwives,
mothers and babies in the region.
We
held a movie night as a BPW fundraiser in
April 2007 and 169 people attended. We charged
a small fee for food and beverages, and
held a stall selling East Timorese handcrafts.
Many local businesses donated gifts for
the raffle prizes. Members and their husbands
enjoyed helping to make the function most
enjoyable and profitable for the purchase
of the birthing kits. The biographical movie,
"A Hero's Journey," was shown
at the event and is the biography of the
current Prime Minister of East Timor, Xanana
Gusmao.
Central
Coast BPW shall continue to support Project
5-0, Eva's student fees, and the midwives
of East Timor.
Barbara Hunter
BPW Central Coast, Australia
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