I'm still riding high on the after effects of a fantastic doll making marathon, but apparently I'm not the only one. Audrey Steele has decided to host a doll making event of her own, at her home here in St. Petersburg on Saturday, September 20th. (Check out the nice photo of Audrey below in my last blog posting; she's the woman in white snuggling her dollie-in-progress.) Audrey and friends will create thirty dolls to accompany Anna Reschar to Chulucanas, Peru this fall, where Anna will serve as a nurse on a Global Health Ministry medical mission trip.
As if Audrey wasn't doing enough making dolls, she has also opened her home to host a "dinner and a movie" fundraising evening to benefit the Fistula Foundation of Addis Ababa on Friday, August 29th. Together Audrey, myself and Eirene Ng'anga-Hackett will be preparing a feast of African food and showing the documentary "A Walk to Beautiful" which highlights the work of the Fistula Foundation. We are hoping to raise $450--the cost of a fistula repair operation for one Ethiopian woman.
Rumor also has it that some of the women from St. Joseph Hospital are thinking of forming crafting groups of their own, to make dolls to send to the Dominican Republic, among other places. I'm keeping an ear to the grapevine, and will let you know if these wonderful women make good on their crafty threats!
When women come together and connect over good projects, great things just continue to happen. It's as though we just can't get enough of doing good, for ourselves as well as for others. I will keep you posted about the doll making gathering in September, as well as next Friday's movie night to benefit the Fistula Foundation.
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