[Vision2020] Haiti Relief Breakfast

[Bill London]

Breakfast for Haiti Supports Quake Relief





The Breakfast for Haiti fundraiser will be held on Sunday, February 21, from 9am until noon at the 1912 Center in Moscow. Tickets will be sold at the door for a suggested donation of $10. All the money raised will be used for earthquake relief in Haiti and will be sent directly to the Courageous Women project created by the people of Haiti. 

Courageous Women will use the funding for direct humanitarian aid for orphaned children and homeless families in Matenwa, a village on the Haitian island of LaGonave that was ravaged by the recent earthquake. More information about Courageous Women is available at www.matenwa.org/CourageousWomen/index.htm. 

The breakfast is sponsored by the VP Foundation, a Moscow-based non-profit organization that serves as the fiscal agent for Courageous Women, a grass-roots development project in Haiti that focuses on educating and supporting women and children. The VP Foundation will transfer all the money raised at the breakfast to the Courageous Women group in Matenwa. 

The breakfast fundraiser in Moscow will include a meal of pancakes, eggs, yogurt, fruit, applesauce, coffee, tea and juice, as well as a program of entertainment and information. Musical entertainment will include a cello duet from Lois Blackburn and Tim Kinkeade, and performances from Trillium and from Tom Drake and Friends. In addition, the Palouse Potters Guild will assist people to make their own pottery bowls in the adjacent Fiske Room for the empty bowls project.

Also at the breakfast, Nancy Casey of Moscow, who has visited Matenwa for the last 8 years and worked with the Courageous Women group there, will provide a presentation about Haiti today. In March, Casey plans to go to Matenwa with a group of Moscow women to help in the relief projects there. They will continue the long-term partnership between Moscow and Matenwa aimed at supporting the women and families of that impoverished region.

The other Moscow women planning to visit Matenwa include Janice Boughton, a medical doctor; Louise-Marie Dandurand, a plant pathologist; and Ryan Law, an artist.

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