I wanted to share a brief update on our fundraising project. Time is quickly passing by and we still have $295 to raise to reach our fundraising goal. I still believe this is an achievable goal, but we really need your help to get the word out about what we are trying to do and why. Min and I decided this morning to establish a deadline of 1/31/09. The women in Yoshinkel still need time to craft the remaining items and taking that into consideration, the weather will also begin to get warmer as Spring nears, so we cannot afford to wait.

What can you do?

This is fantastic! In 4 days we've achieved 50% of our fundraising goal! We're halfway there! Keep those donations coming. I know we can achieve this. Remember, your money goes 100% to both projects-110 students at Krishna Primary School benefit by getting a nice new winter hat, gloves, sweater and muffler and the women in the Yoshikhel village will be paid a wage for the work they put into the project.

We need your support-every little bit gets us one step closer to achieving our goal.

Hi all-

I spoke with the guys at GiveMeaning tonight and our proposal is now a project and can begin fundraising. I posted the following as a news story in the Gamauli village:

The Gamauli/Yoshinkhel Partnership Project is now posted and ready to accept donations at

http://www.givemeaning.com/project/gamauli.

We made it through the first part of the fundraising process on Give Meaning! We achieved 100 votes of support in record time. I am waiting to hear from the Give Meaning staff about how to go about the next step so that we can start fundraising.

Thank you to everyone who took time to vote. I'll post additional information as soon as I get it.

Jennifer

We are almost there!

We need just 21 more votes for our project to move on to the next phase on Give Meaning. This is fantastic news and I am so impressed with how fast we've been able to pull this together. If you've not already voted, please give us just a few minutes and cast a vote of support for our project proposal.

Jennifer :)