Auction Party at Dreams Club 15th May 2008

We had another party at Dreams Club, and it was really successful. There were around hundred people and the atmosphere was really nice, especially because there was an auction and was really funny. A lot of people were willing to be sold (actually to get a date) and the profits went for us. Furthermore the entrée fee was 3 €. We would like to thanks to Dreams Club again to let us organize this party and specially to the people that came to support us.

Donation from Consumomar S.C.A 27th April 2008

We are really grateful for the support of the cooperative Consumomar S.C.A, founded in 1987 and nowadays is the leader of the agricultural provision in Almería (Spain). We received around 400 € from them and also one private donation of more 600 € from one partner of this company, so around 1.000 €!! This company has cooperated before in social projects, and now they joined us!

Book Day by Association ``Punta Entinas´´ and ``Roquetas en Bici´´ 18th April 2008

This event took place also in Roquetas de Mar (Almería), and was organized by the Association ``Punta Entinas´´ and supported also by ``Roquetas en Bici´´. The event had as aim to promote the lecture and after one beneficial party in which the profits were collected for the Foundation Kashi Mandir. They got 370 € selling snacks and drinks. From here we want to give the thanks to these two association and all people that supported this event.

http://www.ideal.es/almeria/20080418/almeria/fiesta-benefica-marinas-para-20080418.html

Market on Friday!

During the month of April, we spent some Friday morning in the market of the center of Emmen. We have books of Indian kitchen recipes and another about how to write in Indian, and with these and the rest of the staff from the Indian Week we sold almost everything there. It was better that we thought before and now much people from Emmen know about the project. Furthermore, we use the Queen’s Day to sell and it was enough for the market.

Open Day 18th April 2008

In Stenden Hoogeschool, on 18^th of April was the Open Day, and we seized the opportunity to put our table there and we passed all the afternoon giving information about the project to the people with a nice environment. The people looked interested and we saw them everything that we did. We think it was good to make them aware about social projects and some of future students can be interested in participated in our project the next year.

Primary school Vlonder in Emmen 9th April 2008

We have cooperated with the Primary School Vlonder located in Emmen. We did workshop with the children, like lamps, bracelets, flowers with paper, and more.

Furthermore we were teaching them how to write their name in Indian. And we spent good moments dressing the children up with Indian clothes and taking pictures of it.

After that, within the Indian Week by the school, the last day we participated selling all these workshop, books of Indian and the pictures. And we could informate the parents and all the teachers about the project with a presentation.

The event was very succesful, there were more than four hundred people, and they were very receptive because the Indian feeling was all the time as well, because Indian food, Indian clothes in everybody, the music, the staff...

The whole Indian Week was for raising money to the foundation Kashi Mandir and they were with us all the time as well. Only our goup had raised more than one thousand euros in one day, and there were a lot of people doing something to the Indian children, then we were very glad
with the result of the event.

We would like to say thanks to everybody who helped us and the teachers who supported us a lot as well, with them everything was more easily and we can remember nice moments.

Solidary Coffee by Tequila Bar 6th March 2008

This event took place in Roquetas de Mar (Almería), the village where is from Isaías. The event was organised by Tequila Bar, a very famous bar in this village and it was very successful. Around one hundred of people were there and 300 € were collected from the coffees and private donations.

We are really grateful for the support of Tequila Bar and all the persons that participated in it.

Furthermore the event was published in one local media:

http://www.ideal.es/almeria/20080414/poniente/buen-resultado-cafe-solidario-20080414.html

Student Party at Dreams Club 19th March 2008

We organized one student party at Dreams Club in Emmen. The entrance fee was 3 € and around 160 students came to our party. One member of our group, Isaías, was playing music together with Scott, a student of the school. The music was great and the people had a lot of fun.

We will have our next party at Dreams Club on 15^th May and there will be important novelties!

First presentation 12th March 2008

One of the first things that we did was a presentation in Stenden Hogeschool for companies, teachers, students and others. Everything started two weeks before the presentation when Alenka, Jose and Isaias decided that they will be the presenters. They made a speech and started to practice. The D-day began in a supermarket with buying ingredients for the food after the presentation. When we were deciding what to cook we said Indian food has to be. And it was: tortilla de patatas with Dutch sweets!!! J Till four o’clock in the afternoon the food was ready, we were dressed so we went to the university. Preparation of the hall and food was brief so we started with the final rehearsal. At six o’clock in the afternoon when the hall was full the presentation started. Our competition the Burundi group started first and after the stage was ours. Alenka opened our presentation with a quick quiz about India and a short presentation. Jose continued with description of the school in India and Isaias’ part was about financial aspect and how we will fulfil it. After the presentation everything was about the good Indian food. We also discussed with teachers, students and other who wanted to find out more information about the project, the foundation that we work with, about the presentation itself and other topics regarding the project Kashi Mandir.