Following the recent earthquake in Nepal, COMMITTED decided to engage in relief and reconstruction work in our project site of Thangpalkot as per the need of the time. We started a fundraising drive to finance our work. Many friends around the world have also offered to raise funds on COMMITTED’s behalf to help us with this work. (Click here or here or here or here for details of some friends doing just that.)
Breeze is another friend of COMMITTED’s in Vermont who has committed himself to raising funds for us. Reproduced below is his fundraising drive. (Links are my own addition.)
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Help The People of Nepal Rebuild
After Two Devastating Earthquakes
I’m a professional inlay artist who returned from Nepal carrying scraps of wood cut long ago in Ghandruk (an incredible Gurung village in the hills facing Annapurna South) and Chitwan National Park and have produced a series of approx. 108 earrings that I am selling to send money to Community Members Interested (COMMITTED) based in Kathmandu.
Though this group normally focuses on education and equal opportunities, they are currently, during this crisis, focusing direct help on an area in the particularly hard hit district of Sindhupalchok. Manaslu is requesting that this money go through this Nepali channel straight to where it needs to go.
The earrings will sell for $42.00, $4200.00 will be donated, 8% to cover my expenses. My studio is located in the Cotton Mill. 3rd Floor, North End next to the circus school and can be reached at tbreeze@sover.net for inquiries in regards to the earrings.
The earrings will have some variations in them, but are mostly represented in the image above. Please give me a preference order with A-Left, B-Middle/Left, C-Middle/Right, D-Right. I will mail them for $2.00 to a USPS address.
PLEASE LEAVE A PHONE NUMBER AS WELL!
SEND CHECKS TO:
T. BREEZE VERDANT
74 COTTON MILL HILL UNIT A333
BRATTLEBORO, VT 05301
Checks to be made out to “Community Members Interested.”
I will mail them upon receiving the order/not waiting for the check.
Thanks!
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July 6, 2015 Update
The earing-sale fundraising drive has ended. T. Breeze was able to send us US$2030 towards the earthquake relief funds.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank T. Breeze on behalf of the entire COMMITTED family for his efforts.
September 3, 2015 Update
An additional US$1464 was sent in by T. Breeze, bringing the total support to US$3494.00.
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