I LIVE HERE

I LIVE HERE

Thursday, May 6, 2010

I Live Here "Day of Action"

Hello!
This is Mia K for the ILH Team writing to you.
Thank you so much for writing to I Live Here and offering to volunteer your time. We are blown away that you wrote to us and want to get involved. You are the reason why I Live Here is growing into a grassroots movement.

We never imagined that we would grow this large. We are a simple organization that doesn’t know NGO speak. We are learning. We are passionate. We do the work we do because we know it needs to get done and we know that our work is not done, but just beginning.

Right now, I Live Here is working to overhaul the Kachere Juvenile Prison, in order to give these kids a shot at a bright future. Run through our amazing team of local partners, we have a full time school, a permaculture program and prison garden, made a rammed earth kitchen made composting toilets and have a legal rights program. We run Kachere around the ideology of Permaculture.

Our next project is called, The I Live Here America Project. An online house for people to share stories of love, loneliness, the effects of the recession, living with a mental illness, being a single Mom, racisim, hope, being a new immigrant and not being able to speak the language, to being a soldier in the army abroad. There are endless possibilities here. Through the use of new media and social networking, our goal is to inspire activism through hearing stories that might have slipped through the cracks.

Here is why we are writing to you: We need your help.

We are hoping that you can join I Live Here in a pretty wild project- on June 27th 2010 wherever, whenever- connect to your community and tell them about I Live Here’s work. All over the world, people will work in solidarity with I Live Here, raising awareness, connecting to strangers, and fundraising to make beautiful dreams a reality. We urge you to come up with a cool idea that can raise money for I Live Here and get others involved in your work.

Here is the plan:

Before June 27th, create your own fundraisng plan where you have a set goal in mind. For example, if you get one hundred of your friends, co-workers, school mates to attend your event, charging twenty dollars for admission, you will have made $2,000.00 for I Live Here!! That’s pretty awesome.

Here are some ideas that we had for individual fundraisers:

-Private dinner/lunch party
- Sell home made foods
-Make cool neckalces
-Make home made-cards sets and letter kits
-Make bath salts/body srcubs
-Phone a thon.
-Teach a group of people a skill that they would like to learn – ie, yoga class, ballet class, painting class.
-Have a show with different muscians that you love.

Once you start planning, the fun will really begin.
All the money raised on this day will go to create the I Live Here America Project, in addition to continuing to grow our Kachere Prison program.
And: All donations are tax deductible
When you think about it, twenty dollars is the price of a movie and popcorn and a drink.

We will walk you through what I Live Here does and send you a little package about I Live Here. We will also have a training sessions and answer any questions that you might have about this effort. If done right, by the end of this day, we can begin the ILH America project and continue our work in Malawi. In return, your name will appear on the ILH America Site as a founding member. The top three people who raise the most money for ILH will receive a very special prize.

It’s a big dream. We know.
Many might think that this will never work.
We say it will.

That’s how we started I Live Here.

Hugs,
Mia and the ILH Team

8 comments:

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  2. Hi,

    i recently discovered I Live Here and it makes me so happy to see that they are still amazing people in this world, willing to do things to make this world a better place.
    I'm a singer and i wrote a song thanks to you, i hope someday i'll sing it to you.

    thanks you so much again for being amazing people.

    god bless the I Live Here TEAM !!!

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  3. You guys are an inspiration :) It amazes me to see that there is hope and love. Massive Hug to all of You!

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  4. i need your help mia... im so troubled... please help me...

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  5. hi mia i love ilive here hand-me one hi for my kiss mia

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  7. HI there, seems that my post will be one of the few non-spam ones!
    I am a Peace Corps volunteer and I have been working in the Kasungu prison. I would love to connect and to collaborate!
    I do not want to write too much here (spam issue and all!). But, can someone get in touch? email me at caitlynbradburn[at]gmail.com
    THANKS!!!

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  8. Hello I am finding who runs I Live Here I am a college student wanting to bring to attention to the people of your cause. I can contribute many things graphic design, networking, art, fliers, brochures ;)~ Please let me know how to help. Thank you.

    Alejandro
    Alejandroviaalejandro@gmail.com

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