Charity round the kitchen table
13th August 2006, 3:26 pm
‘Kitchen table charities’ get a quick explanation in a short comment piece in The Observer: How to be a kitchen table heroine.
Via the Guardian’s Comment is Free pages, one reader says
“If you know of anyone setting up a network for kitchen table heroines then let me know!”
We’d welcome a discussion of that idea here!
September 19th, 2006 at 8:49 am
I don’t quite fit into the “kitchen table charity” box as I operate from my front room. I fund my broadband, printer cartridges and paper with benefits, although eBay for Charity is now providing a medium to raise funds by selling Kenyan crafts online. I list the treasures, people bid for them and the Kenyans put them in brown paper packages tied up with string (and DHL post them anywhere in the world)!
Time and commitment remain free commodities in my house, like the knowledge accessible from’t'internet ! Its the only reason AVIF exists and the only reason 14 volunteers just completed our first 5 week volunteer program; washing in rivers, cooking over fires and playing Twister with the orphans. Its also the reason I set up AVIF .. to pass on the opportunities provided by the net.
AVIF definitely operates on a shoestring and although I regularly struggle to put a meal on my own kitchen table, its easy to continue knowing my 2 munchkins have got so much more than most children in Kenya; choice for one.
Why Kenya? Because friends who live there confirm that The Constant Gardener is a true depiction of how things are, yet the Maasai can still live in symbiosis with nature - without Landcruisers.
Any help with volunteering or fundraising would be most appreciated, but at the very least thank you for this blog and please don’t miss our Photo Gallery on the site.