ARNSIDE CAR BOOT SALE MONDAY MAY 26TH

The weather was very kind to us on May bank holiday when ABANA had a stall at the car boot sale run by the local cricket club.
We were selling a mixture of car boot items, earrings made by Valerie, akabanga and the wonderful new cards made byJeanne in Rwanda.
I wouldn't have been able to do any of this without the help of George who kindly gave up half a day to help me set up and sell my wares. With his cheery patter he persuaded people to buy things they had no intention of buying!
The star of the show however was Christine and her lucky dips at 50p a go, no one could resist  - there was even a lucky dip for dogs which proved to be very popular (some of the dogs chose their own items) Christine had spent hours collecting small items together and then wrapping them all up individually and labelling them and all for ABANA.
The lucky dip alone made £50 and altogether we made £152!!! fantastic.
I cant thank George and Christine enough for all their hard work.
The cards proved to be very popular, people were buying 5 at a time.
We plan to do something similar at Arnside family fun day on July 13th

Christine with the lucky dips

the "doggy dip"

 

news since October and Seb's half marathon

The blog hasn't been updated in a while but that doesn't mean that ABANA hasn't been active. We have always been making some money through selling akabanga at £2 50 a bottle.
In September we received a very generous  donation of £240 from Our Lady and St. Michaels' church Alston Lane where I was christened, went to school and was married. They like to support small projects in developing countries and were so kind to support mine.

The biggest money maker of 2014 so far has been Seb's half marathon on March 23rd which he ran for ABANA and raised over £600 - amazing! This is the most money we have ever received through one event So many of his friends, relatives and colleagues made generous donations via BTmydonate or in person. A big big thank you to all those wonderful people and especially to Seb for all his hard work and training and having to spend precious time away from Elliot.

A new and exciting way we have come up with to raise money for our students is by selling beautiful hand made cards.
Together with Jeanne, who makes the cards and Valens, we are making a good living for her - she is very happy, extra money for Valens who thanks to us is now studying journalism at university and also money for ABANA to support other students.   

this is Jeanne with Valens, who found her for me. She makes all these beautiful cards  herself, each one is individual, mainly made out of sisal and truly exqusite.