YOU ARE INVITED TO THE
8th Annual Thanksgiving Fundraiser

Brought to you by
Wassa Dance and Village Volunteers

DATE:
Thanksgiving morning • November 26, 2009
TIME:
9:00AM to 10:30AM
WHERE:
ARC School of Ballet  
      9250 14th Ave NW, Seattle WA 98117
     ( in the old Crown Hill Elementary School--Ballard )
PLEASE NOTE: Dance by donation (tax deductible)
           
**For every $27 donation, Village Volunteers' Feed Villages program will be able to provide a woman with seed, tools and training!**
***100% of what we raise goes directly to our designated projects.***

Dance with Us!
Start your Thanksgiving Day with an inspiring community dance for a great cause. Join Village Volunteers, Wassa Dance's Lara McIntosh, and some of Seattle’s finest percussionists as we dance to raise micro-finance funds for Feed Villages, a local, bio-intensive farming project in Kiminini, Kenya.

Everyone is welcome! Come prepared for a unique African-inspired group dance experience. Wear comfortable clothing, please remove shoes at the door
(no street shoes on the dance floor).

About the Cause
In response to draught and growing famine, Village Volunteers’ Feed Villages program has developed a project training people to grow their own food using locally available resources, with less water and energy.
Partnering with Common Ground in Kiminini, Kenya, local women learn bio-intensive farming methods.
Funding pays for training in sustainable agricultural methods, rainwater harvesting, and seed saving, so people can grow food to feed their families.
Local demonstration farms and tree nurseries provide models for healthy, practical, and sustainable agricultural techniques. All the food produced is donated to schools, orphan homes, and vulnerable families.
In five rural villages, several garden beds are dedicated to growing out seeds for biodiversity and stocking a seed bank for future crops.
Tree seedlings from the nurseries are used to restore tree cover to villages.

Donate!

Please make all checks payable to Village Volunteers.
All documented donations are tax deductible. Does your employer match donations? Village Volunteers is a 501 C-3 organization.

For more information see the Village Volunteers web site.