Archive for October, 2013
25 October 2013
Kris Timor Bound Next Week
This time next week I will be in Timor with Graham, Simon and Stephen, the other Spend it Well founders. We’ll take a big road trip to visit Ossoluga School which is only a month from completion and also Sesal school (which we plan to start in a month or so). We’ll get to do one of my favourite things – giving packs of fabulous books, pencils etc to the school children, all sourced and shipped to us by Rotary Club of Unley.
These are photos of Ossoluga just before construction started – I’ll have more photos of progress next week.
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project: Ossoluga, Sesal
23 October 2013
Melbourne Lunch raises $32,000 for Sesal School
Two months ago Toby Hemming, who I’d never met, but who’d been to one of our schools in Timor, came to me with the idea of raising money for us in Melbourne. We decided on a boardroom lunch and by last Tuesday, Toby had secured John Thwaites (ex Vic Deputy Premier) to speak and convinced almost 30 people to come along and pay $1,000 a head. Many other people who couldn’t attend the lunch donated as well. With the generosity of Peter McMullin and Cornwall Stodart who let us use their boardroom and the fabulous catering duo of Eliza McNair and Kate Ansett who provided a beautiful meal for us at cost price we raised $32,245. This brings our total funding for Sesal school to over $100,000 and will allow us to build them 6 new classrooms and toilets. It is an amazing result.
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project: Sesal
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