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Summerland has supported One Person Project

Medical and school supplies have been shipped to Tanzania
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Dear Editor:

The board of directors of the Summerland organization, the One Person Project, would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to the people of Summerland for their continuing support.

For those readers who are not familiar with One Person, we are a small non-profit that provides the means for the Okanagan community to provide real, enduring and totally transparent support to a community in rural Tanzania.

In brief, with your support, we have shipped four 40-foot containers to Kahama, Tanzania, each filled with medical, educational and essential resources to strengthen and bolster the Kahama District Hospital and the Teacher Resource Centre and we have built and funded a 7,000 square-foot orphanage and have a sponsorship program to feed, clothe and educate the orphans.

Our major fundraiser of the year will be at the Shatford Centre in Penticton on Saturday Nov. 17 and we are seeking silent auction prizes.

It is important to point out that 100 per cent of our proceeds go directly to our projects.

We have an agent on the ground in Kahama, and the organization’s co-founder and driving force Brenda Lowe has taken 11 self-funded trips to Kahama; and of course the 10 volunteer teams that she has taken with her over the years have also paid their own way.

The next volunteer team departs in early January.

Asante Sana – Thank you – we really couldn’t do it without you!

Denise Whittaker, director

The One Person Project

Summerland

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