Did you miss the 22nd Annual Wichita Alternative Gift Market? Still looking for a meaningful gift for that special someone? Make plans to shop at PVCC’s Mini-Market on Sundays, December 4 and 11 while making someone’s holiday super special. Think locally & act globally.
Interested in the results of this year’s WAGM? Shoppers donated enough money to our project to purchase 70 backpacks filled with medicine for rural folks in Burma/Myanmar.
On the day of the market Wichita raised $26,740 to sponsor important projects in Wichita, the US and around the world! That’s enough for:
- 9 children to attend Autism CARE Club (Heartspring, Wichita)
- 23 pounds of native grass seed for gardens at West High (Outdoor Wildlife Learning Site, Wichita)
- 21 childrens’ coats (Dear Neighbor Ministries, Wichita)
- 54 weeks of community support for families (Wichita Circles Network)
- 31 nights of food and shelter for victims/children (Wichita Family Crisis Center)
- 12 personalized ipods for people with dementia (Roth Project, “Music & Memory,” Alzheimer’s Association, Wichita)
- 25 personal care kits (Episcopal Migration Ministries, Wichita)
- 15 families to start family farms in Haiti
- 7 kitchen gardens for families in Belize, Honduras, and Panama, and
- 156 people to receive groceries for a day in the US
- 38 people to learn how to grow food for 00A04 Green Grows the Garden (Haiti)
- 28 week’s worth of milk & cookies to end malnutrition in Guatemala
- 555 books for school libraries, and
- 11 orphaned children to be fed for 1 month in Mexico, and
- 42 tutorial sessions for children in the Philippines, and
- 160 street kids to receive life skills & in India, and
- 15 children to receive school supplies in Haiti, and
- 57 months of sewing classes for Dalit women in India, and
- 5 women to recieve business loans and training to start a new enterprise in Egypt, and
- 18 trafficking victims to be rescued in Asia and Caribbean, and
- 16 girls to receive school supplies and clothes in Kenya, and
- 70 backpacks filled with medicine in Burma/Myanmar, and
- 29 bicycles sent to deliver supplies and medicine in Africa, and
- 18 safe birthing kits for mothers in DR Congo, Haiti, and S. Sudan, and
- 6 wheelchairs for independence and dignity, and
- 11 AIDS patients to receive medicine for one year in Swaziland, and
- 23 wool mattresses for children in Tibet, China, and
- 41 pairs of replacement shoes for children with leg braces in DR Congo, and
- 17 water pumps for fresh water wells in S. Sudan, and
- 242 acres of forest conserved to protect the orangutan’s home in Indonesia/Asia Pacific, and
- Seeds for 104 family gardens in Tanzania, and
- 650 trees planted in Haiti, and
- A weeks’ worth of food for 208 regugee families in Crisis along Syria’s Border, and
- Training materials for 14 teachers, and
- 11 start-up micro-loans!!!
Thank you! Giving & Mercy Spirit Team