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Asuman Zura.

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I’m having major technical difficulties on this blog so I had to post about this over on my Loft3 blog. Click on that link to read the whole post and see videos of the child we sponsored in Ali’s name.

Remember when all of us gorged ourselves with Orange Leaf for a week straight? Well I received some info on the little girl we sponsored awhile back but I had been waiting to introduce her here on the blog. Connie, the founder of Unified for Unifat, recently made her annual trip to visit the sponsored children in Uganda. While there, part of their mission is to get to know the children and take pics and videos for the sponsors back here in the States.

Asuman Zura is in the middle in pink, then Grandmother and little sister Miriam.

Here are ways you can personally help Unified for Unifat.

Donate to the cause. Once on their homepage you can chose where/what you want your money to go. This isn’t a big organization. In fact, it’s really just a handful of local high school’s service clubs who came together to help save the invisible children of Uganda. Your money will actually go directly to that specific cause. Actually, one of the original students that started this org moved to Uganda after college! So Connie and him talk daily about all things happening with the American donated money!

August 18th from 12-5 The Sandbar: a fun sand volleyball tournament fundraiser.

September 14th (7-11pm) Purcell Marian Ladies Night Out, there will be a U4U booth set up with Ugandan merchandise for sale, typical items include jewelry, purses, coin purses, laptop cases

November 10th Rusty Ball. Ever heard of the Rusty Griswalds? Apparently they put on a huge, always sold out, benefit every year at the Duke center.  Contact Connie directly for a ticket. CRing@moeller.org  Her ticket sales will benefit U4U.

Jewelry Party. Connie always brings home tons of jewelry etc. from Uganda and then has people host parties at their house. She says it’s great quality and really beautiful. If you are interested in having one email her. CRing@moeller.org

spreading her love to uganda.

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well, we raised almost enough at the orange leaf fundraiser to sponsor one child through unified 4 unfat. purcell marian is pledging the remaining balance for ali for that child. after a quick convo between ben and i, we decided one child wasn’t enough. we are using some funds from the santa pub crawl and the new years eve event with brideFace to sponsor a few more kids. we know if she had extra cash laying around, this is one thing she’d love to do. why not spread her love across the world! 🙂 these kids will now enjoy the luxury of education in ali’s name.

yes, that’s cotton candy. the girl had an unhealthy addiction. she needed an intervention.

all of ali’s friends were in a miami, for a bachelorette party. she ordered a ginormous bundle of cotton candy. annnnnd ate. it. all.

hope you’re enjoying the beautiful weather! peace, mel.

a success at orange leaf!

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well i’d say the week was a success. i think my family alone bought enough yogurt to sponsor a small village! 🙂 we all went multiple times through out the week, ahemmm, because we wanted to support the cause! 🙂 on wed the manager said sales were booming, comparable to summer. that’s pretty cool. they had the place decorated with pink balloons and hearts all over. we took some iphone images each time we were there to share with you all.

nori got used to going to Orange Leaf after dinner every night.  she started saying, “go get ice cream now mommy?” i told the owner he needs to open one on the westside, because i’m certain we would go there way too often!

there was always a bunch of people, and always a line!

though i thought the cotton candy flavor was good, i mostly stuck with vanilla and brownies! don’t be fooled, adam didn’t choose healthy toppings every time.

the owner came in and met our family on wednesday night. both him and the manager are super nice guys. they were thrilled with how well the fundraiser went. they asked the fam to come together for an image for their facebook page.

they were so amazed by the amount of people around the tristate that love ali. they said they would be honored to continue carrying the cotton candy flavor ALONG WITH it’s name. now that is freaking cool. i bet if ali was there to see her name on the wall like this, she would have walked around asking people if they wanted her autograph. for sure. ha!

thanks for everyone who came out. and a huge thanks to hyde park orange leaf for doing this in memory of my sister.  i’m not sure if i will know how much we raised or not, but i’m certain there will be a happy child some where in the world, who will be grateful to ali and all of you wonderful people for helping save their life. thanks!