Ska Danny RE: Benefit hope that's better ; )

Ras Adam · **Posted:** Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:30 pm

skadanny wrote" It'd be very cool sometime if we did a benefit for a group like that. Hell, it'd be nice if we did a benefit for ANYONE. It's been too long. "

I have a needy group. The students at The Jamaican Rastafarian Community School in Shashamane Ethiopia are always in need of
$ for running the school as well as supplies etc. i have 3 large boxes of books to send but the postage will be expensive. If we could raise the
$ for the postage and send of the books to their tiny library that would be awesome. or for $80.00 we can sponsor a students tuition and lunch for a whole year. i've been to the school in 2001 and its really awesome. Anyway think about it. If you want to do a show w. bands i'd dj reggae/rocksteady/ska at it in-between sets. ras a
for more info check the foundation in DC http://www.shashamane.org
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loganv · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:20 pm

My Dad works at a school district, he say's that there is always leftover supplies and no one wants them. Maybe we can get together to work something out like have the district adopt the school in Ethiopia.
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Aiyana Catori · **Posted:** Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:34 pm

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Well, gosh, if you want to do a benefit, I've had ideas for a benefit for The Elias Fund rolling around in my head for a WHILE now. I was actually planning on talking to my hommies in the Cultural Awareness Club at school about getting a fundraiser together, but this could work just as well, if not better.

http://www.eliasfund.org/flashcontent.html
^ I tried to copy/paste the mission statement, but it didn't let me for some reason. At any rate, you can go there and check it out. Let me know what you think.

If you want to go more local, there's this AMAZING program called Arise (http://www.ariseinc.org/). I believe the Arise program itself is a national organization, but there's a chaper of it here in Manlius. This AWESOME guy, John Marshall, donated his 84 acre farm to the program after her retired, and now they're based out of there and people come from everywhere for their summer camps and stuff. I was going to get into volunteering there this summer, but I never found the time to get up there and talk to people and figure out a shedule. I think I might do it this spring though, because it looks like a lot of fun.

At any rate, here's the URL to the place here in CNY. http://www.arisefarm.org/

Let me know if you're interested in either of them.
If you haven't figured it out yet, charity work tends to be a specialty of mine. :wink:

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