An update about the fund raising!

Dear Friends!

So far £50 or £62 including Gift Aid has been raised! Thank you to those who visited my blog, read about the cause and got touched! Your gifts are truly appreciated!! :-)
I'm excited that people are joining Grace Children's Village into this amazing project in Uganda!

7 DAYS LEFT TILL TANDEM JUMP!!!

I'm determined to raise £500! Every donation will go straight to the charity and will be used to extend the school with three more classrooms. Don't be shy, help buy windows, doors and bricks by donating on http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=GiedreVasiljevaite&pageUrl=2

Thank you and all the blessings!! 

Giedre xx

The school!!

Action Dave in action!

Grace Children's Village! Brickwork Windows Doors

Hello Dear Friends!!

It’s been awhile I’ve raised money for a special cause!

This time I’m doing something different, something scary, something exhilarating, something crazy and something I’ll have to take a life insurance for! J

Tandem Skydive was my dream when I was a child and has been one of my biggest nightmares since the day I've realised I’m terrified of heights!

I’ve known Action Dave for some time now and have learned the important work he does in Uganda! He is a co-founder of the Grace Children’s Village http://www.gracechildrensvillage.org/ project that focuses on poverty alleviation and opportunity creation! All of the workers in Uganda are locals and earn their own salary. How life changing is that?!

Since February 2012 around 150 children are being educated in the school and 16 adults are employed at the project. A plan to build THREE more ground floor classrooms is being executed: the roof slab of the ground floor is drying and I am fundraising for the brickwork, windows and doors!

Let’s build walls brick by brick! 

Let’s install doors so children can study in peace and quiet! 

Let’s put windows in so the birds don’t snatch their exercise books!  

Let’s give a gift of knowledge!  

I will create an event on Virgin Money Giving website so you can easily donate money for this awesome cause! 

An article about me on Oasis Global website :)

I was not expecting to find it there!! I didn't know that someone was writing about the trip to South Africa thus it was a pleasant surprise ;-)

By the way, the title accurately represents my true feelings :-) 

http://www.oasisglobal.org/announcements/passion-for-africa

Bake Sale Success!!!

What a blessing to have great friends and sweet tooth colleagues! :-)

A special Thank You to Anna, my wonderful colleague and friend, Amy, my lovely housemate, who baked delicious cupcakes and Debbie, my colleague from Oasis, who offered her services as a baker! Thank you to everybody, who has supported the idea by purchasing the lovely cakes!

We raised £130 in total!!! 30% more than planned!!!

“He opened the rock, and the water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert” Psalm 105:41

I feel this verse fits here perfectly... People as a community, as this tight circle of wholeness, helped me to make my dream/prophesy come true.

We had enough money to pay for fuel, to get tasty snacks, to buy a lovely photo frame and develop a few pictures for Elna and Charl Theron, who generously gave their time for us. The Thaba Lodge that we visited is a private safari park and not available for public, thus we feel very blessed to have had this exclusive opportunity to thoroughly enjoy South Africa’s wild life!

We saw elegant giraffes, fast kudus, Impalas and friendly Nialas, also springbok and massive, slightly scary looking blue wildebeests. Stripy zebras looked chilled in the bush minding their own business. The biggest surprise and amazement was to see two rhinos 15 meters away from our safari van! People were wonderfully amused!  

Absolutely brilliant day!

Thank You all for making this happen!!!!

Bake sale success ! ! !

4 cakes- £27!!!

A special thank you to Anna Teschendorf for her generous heart and devoted time!!!

Thank you Oasis staff for buying cakes and thus supporting this cause! You are all very cool people!!

Another £73 need to be raised! Ideas spinning, ideas swirling, ideas boiling...

Any ideas? haha

South Africa trip!

Heyyyy!!! What’s baking today???

Well I’ll tell you what!

Carrot Cake, some sort of Chocolate Cake, Banana Bread and Cup Cakes!!!

I’m trying to choose a chocolate cake from a “The chocolate and coffee bible” book and IT IS overwhelming!!! I’m guessing it’s nearly a thousand cakes to choose from!

Dilemma-should be on a safe side and make a simple chocolate cake, since my experience in this is zero?! Or something special and risk messing is up? (Unlikely, to be honest! Oh yes! Cos I’m that good! Haha)  

Anna, a friend of mine, is joining me in the baking day! I appreciate it SO much!!! She will show her expertise in making banana bread and cup cakes. Anna, better protect those cup cakes from my teeth as they are one of my favourites!!

OK, someone who knows me well might ask, why on earth is Giedre baking? It’s not exactly my favourite venture and I’m not an expert in this field! But there is a reason behind it!

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I’m going on a work trip to South Africa in less than 3 weeks. It is extremely exciting as I will get to see and be part of the projects they run! You can read more about their work http://www.oasisza.org/  or http://www.facebook.com/#!/OasisSouthAfrica 

I was blessed enough to be able to arrange a Game Park trip for some of the young adults who receive support from Oasis South Africa! They have never been to any game parks even though they live in SA! They never had an opportunity to see the real beauty of SA that it is! The hosts of the game park we will be going to are incredibly kind and they are not charging us a penny!!!  It is their contribution to the projects. However, we need fuel to get there and back and snacks. Also, I thought it would be fantastic to give the hosts a present- a framed picture with all of us, them including, at the game park as an appreciation token! Usually these trips cost a fortune, so this is the least we can do!

I’m raising £100 or more!

If you have any fundraising ideas to add to this one - please do share with me! I’m keeping my mind open to any suggestions! Another idea of mine is to organise a South African bbq in two weeks. What do you think? Would you come to a meaty bbq? nom nom!