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It's time for Jane Newman's annual Thorn Tree Benefit to benefit the children of the Samburo Tribe in Africa!

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Here's a summary from Jane ...

The Thorntree Fundraiser is on the Tuesday the 11th May!!!! Hold the date!!!!!

May 11th, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Clodagh Design
670 Broadway, 4th Floor
Between Bond and Great Jones
$30 suggested donation at the door

This year is going to be the best ever: the most fun and bargains galore!. We have an amazing African bazaar full of our favorite things from Kenya. And a silent auction with fabulous New York cool things to bid on. There is a bar and snacks and when you've shopped you can buy desks, beds, mosquito nets and camels for the school.

Feel free to invite your friends -- as everyone knows who has been before our event is lots of fun, casual and friendly and you are pretty much guaranteed to walk out with a bargain.

We had a great year last year at the school. Ndonyo Wasin has 8 grades and when students leave we want them to be able to go on to a top national high school. The money we made at last years event went on improving the quality of education at the school. We want every student at the school to get into a good national high school. However the government gives the school only 40% of what is needed to run a basic but effective school in Kenya so we filled the gap with extra teachers so there was one for every class, food for breakfast and dinner for the boarders, enough reading books so every student can read 35 books a year, enough camels to give every student a glass of milk a day, mid term and end term exams to monitor progress, school uniforms, a couple of school trips, dormitory supplies and matrons, new desks, a sports outfit for older students and a few other things. It has worked! Grades have increased by 45% since we started and they continue to go up. Maybe one day we can be one of the top schools in the country. Imagine that, a school in the bush in the top 10% of the whole of Kenya. See what you have helped accomplish! Thank you. The children and parents of Ndonyo Wasin send their blessings.

All love,

Jane