Would you like to help encourage economic sustainability for Sudanese women and have a beautiful handmade product?
Lauren met a gentleman in Uganda two years ago. Robert, who is a father, husband, and pastor often risks his life as he drives North from Uganda into the Sudan. Robert shares weekly with Lauren via email about the difficult travels he endures to try and bring aid and pastoral care to the hurting people, specifically women and children, of Sudan.
In an effort to provide funds to aid the women, Robert brought back with him to Uganda handmade necklaces to sell from Sudanese villages, returning the profit to the women. Robert realized that a greater profit might be made if the necklaces were sold in the United States.
Lauren agreed to help. A few weeks later our mailbox was filled with an enormous paper package, covered in stamps and scented with the aroma of Uganda. The necklaces have sold very well. Lauren has transferred nearly two thousand dollars back to Robert, who in turn risks his life to deliver the funds to the women of southern Sudan. The attached picture is of the women with food they have purchased from profits of necklaces that were sold.
This coming Tuesday the 12th, from 4pm-8pm, Lauren will be selling a new shipment of necklaces from our home in Bend. All proceeds will be deposited the next day and transferred to Robert before he leaves this coming Friday for the Sudan.
Directions:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=175+SE+Roosevelt+Ave,+Bend,+OR+97702&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=32.789564,61.171875&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addrPlease call Lauren at 330.1928 if you have any further questions. You can make a difference.
Blessings to you,
Benjamin and Lauren Edwards
