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8 FOCUS - NOVEMBER 2015 Grandmothers and Grand- Others who work to raise money and awareness for the Grannies and Orphans 25 million in Africa through the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Wednesday November 18th at 6 p.m. Port Perry Villa in the Auditorium Thanks to them for again supporting this event and providing the venue free of charge. 25 per person Royal Le Page on Queen and Coldwell Bankers at Food Basics Plaza or any G-Mom. We wish to thank our com- munity for their tremendous support for our events and wish to say THANKS with a delicious dinner with Authentic African Food Wine Wine on Water and even the Coffee Eco Port. All of this is prepared for you by the G-Moms using authentic recipes. We plan to have a Drummer A speaker Be surprised We will have a market place with jewellery cards and hand dyed silk scarves. www.stephenlewisfounda- tion.org support projects that help feed clothe and get the orphans to school and help the grannies with income generating projects to promote independence. The SLF pride themselves on getting 90 of the funds directly to the projects. Our local G-Moms have raised over 200000 to support these resilient women and children thanks to your ongoing support. G-MOMS PORT PERRYof Supporting the Stephen Lewis Foundation By Tinie Evans Special to Focus on Scugog If you are interested in j oining our g roup email tinie5 xplornet.com. New members are alw ays w elcome. Th e G- Mom g roup is one of over 2 4 0 Grandmoth er- to- Grandmoth er g roup s across Canada and w e are over 1 0 0 0 0 strong . Since th e start of th e G- to- G camp aig n in 2 0 0 6 w e h ave raised over 2 3 million dollars to h elp rebuild Af rica. Step h en Lew is org an- iz ed th e orig inal g ath ering in 2 0 0 6 w h en Toronto h osted th e Aids Conf erence. H e invited 2 0 0 Canadian Grandmoth ers and org aniz ed th e arrival of 1 0 0 Af rican Grannies. At th is time th ere w as much g rief and many of th e w omen w ere bro- k en w ith sadness as most h ad lost many members of th eir f amilies due to th e Aids Pandemic. We Canadian Grannies learned f rom th e Af rican w omen and discovered h ow to best h elp th em. Th ey needed g rief counselling f ood and cloth es f or th eir orp h ans sup p ort to start income g enerating p roj ects and h uman resources sup p ort to g uide th em as th ey w ork ed tirelessly. At th e start of th e camp aig n th e th eme w as Ease th e Pain but since th at time w e h ave f ocussed on Turning th e Tide on Aids . All of our p roj ects receive th e money directly f rom th e f oundation to be sure th at g oals are being met and w e are h ap p y to rep ort th at th e orp h ans in our care do g o to sch ool and many are now g oing on to University. Th ey are learning h ow to g ive back to th eir communities becoming more indep endent and aw are of th eir H uman Rig h ts w h ile continuing to streng th en th eir countries and sup p ort th e Women.