Mother Maryam Foundation News
Updated February 23, 2008
In addition to the many individual donors who contributed to our 2007 year-end Health Clinic Project fundraising appeal, the following organizations donated:
Downtown Austin Rotary Club Foundation
Westlake Rotary Club
Rockport Rotary Club
Plano West Rotary Club
Austin Community Foundation
Grant Family Foundation
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas
St. George’s Episcopal Church
We thank everyone who donated, and we thank Steve Hake’s family, Michele Vinet Hake, Margot Hake, and Claire Berger, for their help with correspondence. We also owe thanks to Cat William’s team of Whole Foods employee volunteers, who did the mail-out of fundraising letters.
We recognize and thank Stephanie Savage for writing and submitting the grant proposals that brought in organizational donations. She’s currently sending out another round of proposals.
The Mosaic Foundation has just donated $10,000 to the Health Clinic Project. (That grant proposal was written by Kelsey Ehlert, Melissa Netecke and Sarah Walker as a project for Professor Alice Batt’s “Writing for Non-Profits” course at The University of Texas at Austin.)
The American Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) at St. Edwards’ University held a fundraising event for the Mother Maryam Foundation, “The Benevolence Ball,’ on February 8, 2008.
UT-Austin students in the International Business Seminar led by Professor Michael Dodds are making business plans and grant proposals for two micro-financing projects. Marina Zolezzi and Mai-anh Epperly are spearheading the effort.
On January 2, 2008, we attended the meeting of the Khartoum Rotary Club, where we reported on the status of our ongoing projects, and on the progress of fundraising for the Health Clinic Project. The Khartoum Rotarians thanked us for our involvement in the Wheelchair Project, and told us how rewarding it was to participate in the wheelchair distribution. They will work with Cheshire Homes to facilitate transportation and distribution of future wheelchair donations.
With Dr. Omda, the physician in charge of the Health Clinic project, we met with the Khartoum Rotary Club representatives to the project, Isam Qasim, Sohaib el-Badawi, and Zuheir Saeed to share progress reports.