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Just updated our goals page to let you know what we’re up to.
What’s next? Good question…you should expect some excerpts & pics from some of our team members in the next while – a great chance to read up on our 09 trip from different perspectives…
On the radar -
- We’re aiming to hit (or surpass) our goals for soccer balls and backpacks for the year.
- chill CWAC tees – BOGO (buy one give one) – hoping to pursue this cool idea… more to come on that one (of course, we’re jonesin’ for organic, sweatshop free tees) !
Just an update on the fly – we’ll do our best to keep you updated on the blog, and on facebook. If you haven’t already, please join our facebook group – the link’s on the side…
cheers, and thanks for your support!
james
Categories: fair trade soccer balls · goals · joy packs · updates
Tagged: backpacks, cameras with a conscience, fair trade soccer balls, give, spread hope
{photo caption: it is an important tradition that we pray with our team and family around the foundation of their new house before we begin building. Everything stops, while we pray a blessing on the family, on our work, and on what will be their new home}
We’re home from the amazing TJ 09 drop and house build.
Wow.
This trip was mindblowing to say the least – here’s the short:
1 house build for the Maqueda family – a beautiful family – we got to spend 3 fantastic days with them… Gustavo, their middle son (the Maquedas have 7 children), is our sponsor child. We got to work, play, and even cook alongside these beautiful people.
1 Factory RESCUE – probably the most important thing we did on this trip. Thanks to some of my students from last trip, we were able to offer Ana, 14, a chance to get out of factory work, child labor, and go back to school. This was life changing! We’re so happy she said yes to rescue, and we’re in the midst of setting up her school registration…
52 Fair Trade Soccer Balls – 20 of which were given to a school for children who can’t afford normal school.
76 School Bags - hand delivered to kids who need ‘em.
40 food packs – handed out @ the river (aka ‘No Esperenza’ = no hope) – an illegal squat that is surrounded by factories. We were able to assemble 40 bags, with rice, beans, and the bags for families with children included vitamin enriched milk.
Countless other stories. We’ll try to get some up asap.
Stay tuned…
-james
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Just wanted to update and let you all know that on Saturday afternoon we’ll be pulling into Tijuana in style – 16 fantastic teens, 4 crazy leaders, 52 fair trade soccer balls (a big thanks to James @ social conscience for setting us up with such a great deal!) and 75 school bags to give away to children down there….oh yeah, and one house to build.We’re stoked to see our sponsor child, Gustavo, again, and build a house for him and his family…this is a once in a lifetime thing!!
Thank you so much for your support. Please keep us in your prayers if you are the prayin’ kind of person. It is always an intense trip.
Also, please pray for Ana – we are going to see if she is willing to leave her life of factory work to return to school and get an education. If she is willing, we are going to help her out – some kids from my school (who were on the 08 trip) decided to raise money to help support putting her into a private school after hearing her story last year. I met Ana two years ago, when the team I was helping lead stuccoed her family’s house. Ana wrote the test at the end of gr.7, and didn’t get a high enough grade. Now she works in a sewing factory for 10 hours a day, and rides a bus for about 3 hours to and from work. She probably makes about 10 dollars a day, if she’s lucky. Ana is about 14 or 15.
This is huge, perhaps the most important part of our trip, but Ana and her folks need to agree with the idea before we can act. If they say yes to this rescue, then perhaps we can help break the cycle of poverty in her family by helping provide Ana with an education that could get her a decent job.
I’ll update the blog when we hit the ground again in Canada. Here’s hoping for an amazing trip of spreading hope in practical ways…
cheers,
james
Categories: Terrazas · fair trade soccer balls · goals · houses · joy packs · updates
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Just wanted to update as we’re drawing nearer to our Spring Break Trip/drop.
Only 3 more weeks!
As we’re getting closer, we’re trying to tie up loose ends, which means I just got to order SEVENTY FIVE swag school bags to hand deliver in Tijuana!!
A massive THANKS to all of you who’ve helped us beat our goal of having a minimum of 50 bags to take with us!
Another big THANKS to the great folks at Mountain Equipment Co-op for footing the bill for our shipping fees!!
Next stop – ordering those fair trade soccer balls!!
Categories: Terrazas · fair trade soccer balls · goals · joy packs · updates
Things are amping up for our Spring Break trip to Tijuana – we currently have a team of 20 students and Young Life leaders, and are working on various fundraisers for our house builds. Next week, we’re hoping for a packed living room for a rockin’ house concert featuring Conor Searl and Colin McTaggart – slick. We’re also finalizing our TJ o9 team t-shirts (on organic sweatshop free shirts, of course).
We’ve also made it easier to give – You can now send funds to Childcare Worldwide for backpacks and fair trade soccer balls, as well as for our house builds. They’ll issue tax receipts for any donations over 20 dollars. Slick!
Click on the ‘give!‘ link at the top of the page to read more about helping us spread hope!
cheers,
james
Categories: fair trade soccer balls · goals · houses · joy packs · updates
Tagged: backpacks, cameras with a conscience, fair trade soccer balls, goals o9, house build, spread hope, updates
September 16, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s the big week before the big trip/drop to Tijuana! I’m stoked, and the list of little details continues to grow…
One big issue we are currently faced with is the new flight restrictions that many airlines are enforcing. Last year, we were able to take two suitcases per person. That translates into a lot of room for extra stuff…This year, we’re cut in half – only one suitcase per person, which means we are having to cram a lot more stuff than last year’s trip into half the space.
ouch
No worries, we’re willing to pay a little extra, especially with some of the swank stuff we’re taking. The backpacks look amazing – I have a bunch of blue ones crammed into my suitcase- and the fair trade soccer balls…very cool! I can’t wait to start giving those out! Our school group also received an amazing donation of about 2-3000 dollars worth of contractor grade construction supplies (tool belts, framing hammers, some dewalt power tools, the works!) from JVD Installations that we will be able to use on our house build and leave for future groups to use. Totally worth a few extra dollars for some extra suitcases!
This time next week, we’ll be wrapping up our first day. I’m hoping to be able to get updates on the web via phone. We’ll see how that pans out…
very excited, but there’s a lot of packing and prep to do yet!
cheers, and thanks for helping make this trip that much more fantastic!
Categories: Terrazas · fair trade soccer balls · houses · joy packs · updates
Tagged: cameras with a conscience, fair trade soccer balls, house build, joy packs, Tijuana, tj08, updates
What a great spending spree!!
My family and I had the pleasure of picking up fair trade soccer balls and backpacks today…
We were happy to finally meet Janine, the face behind Fair Kick Soccer, and hear how she came to be involved with fair trade soccer balls.
We are grateful for her support in helping us meet our goals!
Our garage is now home to four boxes of backpacks, and a box of soccer balls…
By the way, a 2002 toyota echo can easily accommodate 41 backpacks (MEC Pika Plus), 20 deflated size 4 fair trade soccer balls (no child labor!!), costco groceries, random mec biking supplies, two lovely children and all their paraphernalia, and my lovely wife and I (oh, and an ipod & other misc. things like banana peels…) And when I say easily, I mean when it is packed to the trunk lid, with boxes under children’s feet….
cheers!
we only have 58 backpacks left, and then all of our goals would be met for September!
Delivery date: Sept. 22-28.08
Categories: Terrazas · fair trade soccer balls · goals · joy packs · updates
Tagged: cameras with a conscience, Fair Kick Soccer, fair trade soccer balls, give, goals 08, joy packs, mec, share hope, Tijuana, updates
I just received confirmation from our friends at MEC that 41 backpacks arrived in Victoria for us.
I’ve also set up a pickup date for our fair trade soccer balls from Fair Kick Soccer for Friday…
Sounds like our car is going to be pretty full on Friday afternoon!! 41 backpacks & 20 fair trade soccer balls…
I can’t wait – it’s going to be great to be putting these things together for our upcoming trip to TJ.
Thanks to everyone who has helped us!
Categories: Terrazas · fair trade soccer balls · goals · joy packs · updates
Tagged: cameras with a conscience, Fair Kick Soccer, fair trade soccer balls, joy packs, mec, share hope, Tijuana
Well, it looks like it is shopping time!
We’ve got enough green to order about 40 backpacks.
Talk about having a thing for bags…
There’s still time, if you want to help us meet our original goal of 100 bags. (12.25 each).
happy shopping!
Categories: Terrazas · goals · joy packs · updates
Tagged: backpacks, cameras with a conscience, give, goals
