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HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR
AT THE MORRISTOWN UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
Where your shopping goes far, locally and globally
Friday, December 4th, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 5th, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 6th, 10 a.m. to 1 p.mDouble or Triple the value of your gift giving!
Courtesy of Ten Thousand VillagesHUNDREDS OF AFFORDABLE, HAND-CRAFTED GIFTS FROM
TEN THOUSAND VILLAGES
- bangles, boxes and bags from Bangkok
- tantalizing toys from Tanzania
- practical things for the home, etc., etc., etc.
MANY NEW ITEMS!
Purchases through Ten Thousand Villages, a free trade organization, enable artisans in third world countries to improve the quality of their lives and communities.
Dustin Wolfe Member MUF Sr. High Youth GroupHabitat For Humanity - “Chico” Bags – MUF’s Sr. High Youth Group offers a dazzling assortment of “Chico Bags” – compact, zipped, nylon “re-usable tote bags” that fit in your pocket, car, purse, weightlessly – unisex and in great colors, prints, etc. So incredibly reasonably priced, you can buy several!
Courtesy of Heifer Project International
A FLOCK OF DUCKS!
Triple value:
$20 to Heifer International means a flock of ducklings that offers a secure future to a family in China (or bee hives, llamas, goats, pigs, rabbits or tree seedlings).
You get a stuffed animal for under the tree or a gift certificate for someone you want to honor. And, it’s tax-deductible!
CHOOSE OTHER GIFTS OF CONSCIENCE FROM:
Every gift purchased at MUF's Alternative Holiday Gift Fair "gives back" to a local charity or a global village by helping to:
build a house,
provide a living wage, or
spread a message of hope.
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Descriptions of Holiday Gift Fair Organizations
The Eric Johnson House is an HIV/AIDS crisis intervention facility in Morristown .
A donation to Eric Johnson House will help provide formerly homeless HIV/AID residents with housing and supportive services. Come hear how MUF has worked with Eric Johnson House to change our community a life at a time. Those who make minimum donations of $20 will receive a gift in return.
http://www.theericjohnsonhouse.orgGO GREEN THIS HOLIDAY SEASON...If you care about our Earth but need to buy "stuff" for holiday gifts, visit Green Earth Ministry's table for stainless steel water bottles, tire gauges, shake flashlights, high-efficiency LED holiday lights, wildflower seeds, and more. Also find out about environmental nonprofit organizations for on-line donating.
Grupo Cajola ,
Grupo Cajolá, a community-based group in Morristown and in Guatemala , is excited to be offering three ways to help the community help itself out of poverty. Our women’s weaving group will be introducing their first “fair trade” products (fair trade because the women are the owners of their business) for the US market -- hand-woven and hand-embroidered kitchen towels and cosmetics bags. Grupo Cajolá will also be accepting donations towards our Egg Farm (also owned by a women’s group) and towards our Scholarship Program.Habitat for Humanity – The Senior High Youth Group will offer Holiday Chocolates and Donation Certificates in your name for the “Habitat Holiday Gift of Shelter.” Your purchase of Fair Trade chocolates or packages of hot chocolate with mugs, or poinsettias, will support the Senior High Youth Group’s Habitat project .
Interfaith Council for Homeless Families (ICHF)
ICHF Council for Homeless Families was created in 1989, in response to the growing number of homeless families in Morris County, New Jersey. A network of volunteers was formed from local congregations to provide emergency shelter, meals, and support services to homeless families, while professionals provide ongoing case management. ICHF will be selling the famous house pins that support causes that assist families in need of housing.
http://www.ichfmc.orgPeaceworks is a New Jersey-based non-profit organization that collects and ships humanitarian aid to Nicaragua and raises funds for Nicaraguan non-governmental organizations, such as: Inhijambia, working with the street children of Managua; FEDICAMP, working to reforest northern Nicaragua, protect declining watersheds, and promoting food security; Masaya Without Frontiers, providing education, health care, housing, and local economic development; and the Women’s Collective of Masaya, empowering women through literacy, economic and food self-sufficiency, advocacy against domestic violence. Gift alternatives include Fair Trade coffees as well as gift cards that acknowledge a person’s donation towards one of the above projects.
http://peaceworks.ning.comSeeds of Peace
Got Peace? Then don’t be shy… wear it, read it or gift it. Seeds of Peace will offer cool Peace shirts for infants to adults (all Fair Trade US made, some organic cotton), great buttons, books for growing peace in your own head and making peace, holiday cards with a peace message (and profits that support the peace and justice work of UUSC), our popular MUF mural bookmarks, bumper stickers and more.Wind of the Spirit is a Morristown grass root organization led by immigrants, in a partnership of immigrants and non-immigrants building community of mutual help and support. Your contributions go towards:
Legal service – helping to pay for the cost of pro-bono legal counseling for victims of domestic violence cases and citizenship applications.
English as a Second Language – classes for low income workers.
Safety training – OSHA courses for workers.
General support – general operation support of the immigrant center, promoting human rights and responsibilities for the new immigrants.
http://www.windofthespirit.netAmani Children’s Home
Amani Children’s Home is dedicated to the protection of Tanzania’s most vulnerable population: street-children and AIDS orphans. It is estimated that there are 2.5 million orphaned children in Tanzania.
Since its founding by Tanzanians in 2001, Amani has rescued hundreds of children from the perils of life on the streets, where they face a high risk of HIV transmission, malnutrition, and abuse.
Amani, which means “peace” in Swahili, provides healthy food, education, counseling and medical care for every child who turns to us for help.
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