Many thanks to our supporters and local media for helping us with our recent fundraiser. If this is your first time here, please start with our mission statement. We have a small photo gallery, as well as a few ‘Tamaraneh Tale’ videos to introduce you to some of our work. Thank you for your support!
One of the Associate Producers of CBC Radio’s daily morning show, Edmonton AM, was present for our fundraiser earlier this month. Cassandra also visited Memunatu at her home to find out more about her background. Back in the studio, she put together a small piece to share with the Edmonton AM listeners–the story aired on Friday, February 26th, 2010:
Memunatu was also recently interviewed for a CityTv segment
To everyone who supported our annual fundraiser, please accept our most sincere thanks. If you weren’t able to attend and wondered how the evening went, please click on the thumbnails below to open the photo gallery. We played several ‘Tamaraneh Tale’ video clips (see below) as well, and they can be found here on our website. We would also like to express our gratitude to the musicians and artists who came together to create a memorable evening.
Still short of our goals
Despite of the wonderful outpouring of support, we are still short of our funding needs! In order to support the school through the coming year, we are still $13,000 short of our projected costs and our deadline is March 30th.
To this end, we continue to accept donations online through our Canada Helps giving page. Alternatively, you can download their donor form and send it to their office with a cheque. If you would prefer to call the Change for Children office directly, their telephone number is 1-780-448-1505. In all cases, your tax receipt will be issued by Change for Children. Thanks again to all of our supporters near and far!
“I just wanted to write a short note to tell you what a fantastic time I and my kids had on Tuesday at the fundraiser. I literally had to drag them out (being a school night and all). They and I were tremendously engaged by the quality of the function, the great food and, of course, the meaningful projects in Sierra Leone and their impact on the community there.”comment from participant
Join us for our annual dinner fundraiser, listen to our tales, celebrate our success, and be part of our story of hope!
When: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:00-10:00 p.m.
Where: TransAlta Arts Barns: Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave
tickets: 780-409-1910 or https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca
$65.00 per person or
$455.00 for a table of 8 (one free ticket)
Come and hear stories of hope and success from Sierra Leone!
Tamaraneh means “people helping eachother” in the Temne language, and that is exactly what we have been doing. To support the efforts of Memunatu Kamara to rebuild her village in Sierra Leone, the Tamaraneh Society has built, staffed and run two schools, dug one water well, provided seeds for three community gardens and almost finished constructing a health centre. The projects are run by the local community and coordinated by our Tamaraneh board and our Canadian project coordinator, Memunatu Kamara. Six villages - almost 4000 people - benefit from our schools and water and will also use the health centre when it is completed.
All proceeds to fund schools, health centre and clean water in Northern Sierra Leone.
Highlights:
Dinner
-African fashion show, coordinated by Angela Sesay
-New paintings by David Shkolny
-Trailer from documentary on Memunata Kamara, by local filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld
-Stories and music from the Tamaraneh Society’s work in Sierra Leone
Jolica is a company that partners with artisans around the world to support their development as artisans and business people and to provide basic needs for development projects in 7 countries.
We have partnered with Jolica for our February 16th fundraiser so, in addition to making a fair trade purchase that appropriately rewards an artisan in a developing country with a fair market price, 20% of your purchase will go towards Tamaraneh Society projects.
It’s a win-win-win situation for the artisan, your favourite charity as well as the recipient of the jewelry! Do your holiday and special event shopping with Jolica and help make a difference in our world!
Our Jolica consultant is Brenda McDonald: https://www.jolica.com/brenda.mcdonald
Be sure to designate The Tamaraneh Society as your charity, under the “join a party” link on the left hand side of Brenda’s page.
You can obtain official tax receipts for charitable donations made through our Canada Helps giving page Help us make our fundraising goals!
We are extremely grateful for the guidance and support we receive from Change for Children.
Thank you to the student social justice club and the staff at Sir George Simpson for their continued support!
Shop with Jolica and 20% of your purchase goes toward Tamaraneh Projects in Sierra Leone
Click to hear the broadcast 
