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HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR
AT THE MORRISTOWN UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
Where your shopping goes far, locally and globally
Friday, December 2nd, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 3rd, 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 4th, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.mTen Thousand Villages Artisan Gifts & Heifer International Project and 10 Additional Alternative Holiday Gift Tables That Express UU Values!
Change the world…one small “gesture of conscience “of gift giving ” at a time .
Bring your values into the Holidays!
Ten Thousand Villages Artisans — An exciting inventory of hundreds of consignment pieces including lovely jewelry, value-priced toys and strikingly beautiful home decorative items: carved onyx, woven baskets, ceramic hand painted serving pieces and candlesticks, woven fabric art, etc. that make fabulous gifts for family and friends. Third World artisans receive 90% of the proceeds with the remaining 10% distributed to MUF-sanctioned local charities. Visit www.tenthousandvillages.org.
Heifer Project Donate the cost of a food and income-producing animal/or a portion of the cost of pigs, bees, chicks & heifers and seedling trees for hungry rural families around the globe working to improve their lives. Change their lives!
10 additional local Morristown and global charities host thematic display tables featuring information about the charity and creative “Donation In Your Name Acknowledgement Cards” for your intended recipients. MUF’s Holiday Gift Fair is unique and sure to inspire you to find just the right practical fair trade gift or donation/token gift for friends and family who have “more than we need.”
Seeds of Peace Got Peace? Wear it, read it or gift it! Choose among Peace flags, UU Chalice Jewelry, unique Women Artists Datebooks, cool Peace shirts in youth & adult sizes (new colors, most Fair Trade USA made, most organic cotton), fine peace-cultivating Children’s Books, an expanded variety of Holiday Cards (including from UUSC), Children’s CDs, great Buttons, our popular MUF Peace Mural Bookmarks, Bumper Stickers and more – all at excellent prices. Profits support our peace and justice work.
Green Earth Ministry GO GREEN THIS HOLIDAY SEASON...Visit Green Earth Ministry's table for stainless steel water bottles with MUF logo, GLEEN cleaning clothes (save on paper towels, avoid harsh detergents), crank LED flashlights with FM scanning radio (be prepared for the next power outage), sturdy Reisenthel shopping bags, and more.
Ghar Sita Mutu, House with a Heart provides a home for abandoned children, a training center for destitute women, and an outreach program for needy families in Kathmandu , Nepal . They will be selling lovely scarves, colorful felted jewelry, and hair accessories as well as children's wall hangings, bags, and hand and finger puppets. http://www.gharsitamutu.com/
The Eric Johnson House 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.org
Interfaith Council for Homeless Families (ICHF) is a network of volunteers from local congregations who provide emergency shelter, meals, support services and case management to homeless families in Morris County . ICHF will be selling the famous house pins that support causes that assist families in need of housing. http://www.ichfmc.org
Jersey Battered Women’s Services - will have “Gift cards” to purchase in someone’s name, to “sponsor” a birthday party for a child in JBWS sate house, to “Sponsor” an individual or a family for one night of protective shelter; and Luminary kits (6 candles, bags and sand) to light as a decoration or in honor of domestic violence awareness.
Pathways to Work is a nonprofit coalition of community and faith-based groups who have come together to provide a pathway for linking day laborers with employers. Help support a workers’ center where employers and workers’ can meet and connect. http://www.pathwaystoworkers.org
Peaceworks collects and ships humanitarian aid to Nicaragua and raises funds for Nicaraguan non-governmental organizations that work with street children in Managua ; reforest northern Nicaragua ; provide education, health care, housing, and local economic development; empower women through literacy, economic and food self-sufficiency, and advocacy against domestic violence. Gift alternatives include Fair Trade coffees, Nicaraguan crafts, and gift cards that acknowledge a donation towards one of the above projects .http://www.peaceworks.org
Grupo Cajola a community-based group in Morristown and in Guatemala , offers three ways for you to help the community raise itself out of poverty. Purchase hand-woven and hand-embroidered items such kitchen towels and assorted bags; make a donation to either Grupo Cajolá Egg Farm (owned by a women’s group) or their Scholarship Program.
FOUNDATION FOR PEACE works to enable personal success and community achievement in impoverished areas of the Dominican Republic , Haiti , Jamaica and Kenya by providing educational support, access to healthcare access, and economic opportunity. Purchase bead jewelry and cloth handbags made by women in Kenya as well as purses and baby blankets from the Dominican Republic http://www.foundationforpeace.org
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