Good deed time
This time last year, Rainy Day made a donation to the World Food Programme, which allowed the organization to purchase 5,000 cups of rice. Considering that the WFP fed 72 million people in 82 countries in 2002, we said at the time that our donation was just a grain of sand, of rice, in an ocean of misery, but it was better than doing nothing.
This year we are sponsoring a wheelchair. Our donation goes to Fatuma Acan in Kampala, Uganda. Fatuma is the first woman in Africa to train as a wheelchair technologist and she runs the non-profit company MADE (Mobility Appliances by Disabled Women Entrepreneurs). The idea for this particular donation was spurred by Anna Hochsieder, and our joint visit to the Western Union office this week to transfer the funds was far more instructive about the nature of First World-Third World interdependency than wading through most research papers on the subject.
This e-mail just in:
Dear Eamonn, I am glad to inform you that I have got the donation. On my own behalf and on behalf of MADE I would like to convey to you our sincerethanks for your generous donation. Plese consider this as your most needed help to some one who was crawling in the African dust. The young boy who is going to benefit has never had a wheelchair in his life so you can imagin the excitement he will have. Please pas to Anna my thanks and gratitude for being such a good friend. I request you also to pass the messege of need of wheelchiair to other friends of yours. I whish you the mrriest X-Mass and a prosperous New Year. Fatuma
If you would like to read more about Fatuma Acan, we suggest this interview conducted earlier this year by Lisa Foster. Meanwhile, Rainy Day is heading to the Cork-Limerick-Tipperary border nexus where high winds have flattend trees and telegraph poles. Posting will be hit and miss.
