GRANDMA-2 -GRANDMA helps. . . Find sponsors world-wide to offer… Help with food, clothing, school fees and uniforms. Bibis have access to the Bibi Clothes Closet. Orphans receive free medical, dental exams. Bibis create crafts to sell to support their families. All gain emotional support, dignity, hope, self-esteem.
You’re probably widowed from AIDS, and perhaps sick yourself. . .
WHETHER IT’S 1 GRANDCHILD Like Angelina with little Angel
OR 6 LIKE HATARINI (1 missing here)
OR 9, LIKE SALMA Four daughters and their husbands have died of AIDS
Because some families are homeless, we rented this house in May ’ 07 through July 2008. . .
While we build the FAWCO House. . .
The FAWCO House will. . . Cost about $50, 000 Provide communal housing for at least 5 bibis’ families Offer adjoining grandma-child bedrooms, communal living and meeting space, kitchen, lavatories Dorm rooms for extra orphans Garden space to grow food Children’s playground A security wall for safety Be located near the BJCCT headquarters and school
U. S. Ambassador’s wife visits site Sue Green, newly arrived in Tanzania, visits BJCCT facilities in Mbagala in November, 2007. Bibi Jann explains how the communal housing will be situated on this empty plot.
FAWCO HOUSE plot, purchased Nov. 2007 Bibis, orphans in foreground will move into the house when it is finished. Those in background are eligible to move in as needed: i. e. , they become homeless, or a bibi dies - then her grandchildren can move in and be cared for by other grandmothers.
YOU’RE BUILDING! Valentine galas, Thanksgiving dinners, charity walks, auctions and more have purchased property and started the walls a’rising – thanks to: *North American Connection in Birmingham, England *AIWC of Genoa, Italy *AWC in Stockholm *AWC of Eastern Provinces, xx *AWC of Amsterdam *AWC in Finland *AWC of Naples, Italy
What you’ve built so far. . . with about $30, 000 more needed!
Can YOUR club join in and get your name on the quilt border?
Then join us on safari for the grand opening in fall 2008? Explore SAFE Dar es Salaam with Bibi Jann as your personal guide! Visit nearby Mikumi National Park to see the animals (or go further afield to Serengeti)! Ferry to the exotic island of Zanzibar! Befriend locals as you could no other way!
Grandma and the kids welcome you!