Friends, The 'freedom from poverty bookmark drive' is a major pre-Christmas fundraiser as part of our ongoing commitment to assist East Timorese women.
East Timorese women continue to be the backbone of their communities. Today many women preserve a sense of continuity with the past by using their weaving skills to support their families but often they don't have access to the capital required to begin. Our aim is to use the funds raised through this campaign to develop and maintain networks of rural weavers using the Taibesi centre, located just out of Dili, as a distribution base (information about Taibesi is available at www.timorwomen.org). We will arrange for the hand woven tais bookmarks ordered by you to be woven by women in the remote districts of East Timor. We hope to secure orders and payment for a minimum of 5000 tais bookmarks by the end of October. Each bookmark costs only $6 including all shipping and transaction costs within Australia. The campaign provides you with a direct and immediate way to assist Timorese women. An electronic information pack is available on our website. All we ask you to do is to encourage your friends and family to pre-pay for bookmarks via credit card online at: http://www.timorwomen.org. We are grateful for the secure online payment facility of KidsnMore, who have generously agreed to process all credit card payments for us. Orders and payments will have to be collected by the end of October to leave sufficient time for weaving and distribution before Christmas and as each bookmark weighs only 2grams, they make the perfect gift to mail to loved ones at Christmas! We also encourage community groups to use the 'freedom from poverty bookmark drive' as a way to raise funds for their own projects. For further information please email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit us on the web at http://www.timorwomen.org. Please take this opportunity to help us support East Timorese women in their efforts to achieve socio-economic independence. Thank you in advance! Debbie Salvagno Volunteer . -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
