Last autumn we started, with the Azezo community, an exciting project to build a community library. This is now becoming a reality. We are now more than halfway to reaching the £60,000 target thanks to numerous donors. The whole Azezo community is helping in one way or another including the local mayor who gave the land freely for it, the engineers who designed it and many people who give their time and labour without payment.
Please help them. If you can organize a small fundraising event/supper we can help you with materials, displays, speakers etc.
As a result of the fantastic response both within Azezo and outside the country we are now aiming to raise the last £10,000 towards our target of £60.000. We just need a little more help. If you can help us in anyway it would be good. We are aiming to open the library by October this year.
We have 6 places in the British 10K run London Sunday 10th July 2011. If you would like a place we will pay your entrance fee if you raise £350 for the Aysanew` Kassa Trust. Please let us know asap as some sponsored places have already been taken up. This is a great opportunity to raise funds for the library and promote the work of the AKT.
Do contact us on
aysanew kassa@hotmail.com
or 0208 8838722
Newsletter We produce one paper newsletter per year to minimize costs but we hope to keep you up to date with new happenings/updates on projects here.
An African themed fun day at St Mary’s, High Road, East Finchley on 22ND May
The Justice and Peace group wish to extend a huge thank you to Fr Tony and all the parishioners of St Mary’s and their friends for the overwhelming support that they gave to our African day last Sunday beginning with Mass. The refurbished hall and its facilities were truly tested as more than 300 people had lunch and entertainments all afternoon. The team of parishioners who worked so hard to make the day fun, friendly, international and most of all enjoyable, deserve an extra thank you because without their enthusiasm we could not have had so much fun and the added bonus of raising for the 2010/11 parish charity [the Aysanew Kassa trust library project in Ethiopia] in excess of £2650! The Ugandan choir and Ethiopian community led by Fr Petros were really magnificent. Jean Bailey on behalf of the AKT cannot thank you all enough for your generosity and friendship and assures you that every penny will go to the library in Azezo which hopefully will open in October.
Our July 10th London 10k runners were brilliant and all finished within two hours, two in one hour on a very sunny Sunday. They managed to raise £1500 which now means we have only £5000 to go to complete the library and internet cafe and open in October this year!
