TUI Marathon

All 4 runners, Andrew and Jazz Clemence, Jill Scholes and Frazer Hardie, ran the 10km !!
We understand that there might have been more runners running for Mediterranea.

We will keep you updated on how it all went and who was involved.

The beggars in Addis Ababa

An amazing  documentary about the extreme poverty in Addis based on two women from Kajima, Belay and Zemu who go to Addis to beg.
Click: HERE to watch it.

Blevins Franks Golf Tournament raises funds for children in need.

A big thank you to John and Hilary Lamb, Peter Worthington, Terry Cameron and other generous and considerate folks for donating 500€ for Mediterranea. This will help us support 25 children for a month in one of our schools in Ethiopia. That means they get 3 meals/day, education and even medical attention, if needed.

Keep on playing golf!

Solutions.

Dear Doreen
300€ is 15 children, fed (3x/day) educated, clothed and medicated (if needed) for a month in one of our schools in Ethiopia. For them you can be sure the 300 means a lot.
Thank you.
M
PS. By the way, you were also given 500€ by Minkner ! That makes 40 children! So with one event you and your team have solved the problem for a 10% of our children during a whole month!

Sta.Ponsa, Saturday 17/10/09

Good Morning All!

Just wanted to thank you for all your efforts on Saturday!  I think we were a great team, don’t you?  Alan was the hero of the day struggling early in the morning with thousands of nuts and bolts to put up what must have been one of the most complicated canopies in Mallorca!  However, Michael has promised to work on it, and get it together in time for the Xmas Fair!  Nevertheless, due to lack of prior publicity, I think we were all  a bit disappointed with the public attendance.  As suspected, the cheese-cloths didn’t go too well…  I think we all had this feeling about them and thankfully  decided to put some bric-a-brac and toys together. We managed to sell some very dubious examples which we thought no one would ever buy!!  We all gave our best and raised the (modest) sum of  300,28 € (which was probably more than any other stands took in); however, I must say that around 147 € of the total came out of the only full donation box… which shows how important it is to “plunge into the crowds a-begging”.   So, I guess we ought to have a least 3 people devoted to the tins for the Xmas fair.   The other 3 tins were so empty that we might as well leave them for the Xmas Fair. 

Finally; I attach the photos taken from my Motorola mobile – they’re not fab, but a wee memory of the day, and look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting for the Xmas Fair!

Best wishes,

Doreen

4th world. Progress report.

This progress report is based on the feed back we have from our volunteers and from the places we collaborate with. If I have missed out on something please let me know.
I am pleased to say we had positive feed back from the centres we collaborate with. Can Gaza has explained exactly the kind of help it needs so that our efforts and work are not done in vain. Zaqueo has stated that they are very pleased with the volunteers going to work there, and the supplies given to the centre. It is eye opening to know that as Mallorca  has no rivers, those most in need have no where to wash their clothes, so clothes are worn till they have to be thrown away. The clothes we provide the different centres are therefore more important than we were led to believe. It is therefore clear that we should be providing all types of clothes including underwear.
One of our members noticed that subsaharian Africans do not often go and eat in the free dining halls. Another volunteer asked if we had ever see an African begging.
We are planning to feed a number of unemployed Africans in the near future. We are developing this project with the help of an African Association based in Mallorca and it has become evident  that discretion will have to be utmost importance. Over the next few day we will publish more posts in reference to this project and how, if you want to,  you can be a part of it.
As an NGO trying to help with those in need in our island we have to learn how to observe the needs of those we intend to help and we will have to learn to listen to their call for help. We can not impose our ideas as from our privileged perspective we can quite often be totally wrong and cause hurt and harm when we wanted to do the contrary.
In reference to the things people give us for the poor, we must insist on a minimum quality standard. Donated things must be of a standard that we would accept for our own families. Nothing must have past its expiry date, and the supplies must be logical. For example once we were given a large supply of heavy winter clothing for Cuba. Cuba has a tropical climate.
Due to the recession and the unemployment the population of poor people in Mallorca is going to grow a lot this winter. We feel that our programs here will slowly become more and more important, so if you are interested or want to help please feel free to get in touch.

Mediterranea needs a place we can use as HQ/office and storage space. It should be easily accessible (we have some senior members who are very active) and be ideally in the Calvia area.

We wish to thank all those volunteers that manned the Mediterranea Stall in the Rotary Clubs Marathon in Sta.Ponsa, and those members that ran in the TUI Marathon in Plama. You are Mediterranea's oxygen!