Miwani for Mwanza: Fair Trade Festival @ Atonement May 2 & 3

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Fair Trade Festival @ Atonement May 2 & 3

This weekend Atonement will be hosting a Fair Trade Festival as Fair Trade Day is coming up next week on May 9.

The primary focus is to be an educational event, but we hope people will shop our Fair Trade handicrafts and coffees & chocolate cart for Mother's Day, wedding, graduation, or whatever special occasion is coming up.

Our theme is to celebrate World Fair Trade Day and honor Women and Mothers around the world. "This Mother's Day purchase a fair trade gift ---a great way to celebrate your mother while empowering women and mothers around the world!". (Click here for more info on WFTD.)

Lutheran World Relief is a leader in the Fair Trade movement, click here to go to their website and information about how LWR is supporting WFT.

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Miwani for Mwanza Mission

In July 2009 the “Miwani for Mwanza” mission team from Atonement Lutheran Church traveled from Overland Park to Mwanza, Tanzania. “Miwani” is the Swahili word for eye glasses.

While in Tanzania the team worked with International Health Partners to begin the construction of an eye clinic at the Nyakato Health Center. The eye clinic is critically needed to serve over 200,000 people in the Southern Lake Victoria area.

Dennis and Paula Lofstrom and IHP-TZ oversee the Nyakato Health Clinic through the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania.

In June of 2012 another team from Atonement will travel to Mwanza with the goal to finish the eye clinic as well as to serve in various medical roles. Several members of the M4M team are Health Care Professionals and during the trip will be providing medical & eye exams, treatments and eye surgery for the people in that area of Tanzania.

$36,000.00 US is needed to to purchase the supplies to complete the Ahlrichs Eye Clinic, and $21,000 of that has been raised already through a Golf Benefit last fall and the "Spread Some Salt" Gala & Silent Auction this past March.

Your contributions toward the final $10,000 needed to complete the Eye Clinic are greatly apprieciated by the M4M teams, IHP-TZ and the people of Mwanza. Asante Sana!

Click here to make a donation.