Food program: Mali population Mallorca

During this past week we have been studying the situation in reference to the unemployed Mali population in Mallorca with the help of Mady (secretary of the Mali association of Mallorca and social worker).
We decided to give priority to the people most in need and that has given us a list of approximately 34 people.
This morning, Sunday, we had a meeting with Mady and with Mousa Keite (vice-president) to decide on the next steps which we agreed would be the following:
Rather than take cooked food to the targeted population, and as nearly all have access to the use of a kitchen, we would provide them with the supplies they need to make the food they are used to and like. The majority of the population live in an block in Palma and the number that lives in a given apartment varies. The person that rents the apartment can not afford to pay for the rent and to feed the 5 to 7 people that live there. These people are unemployed and survive in precarious conditions.
The fact that most of these people live in a block makes our logistics easier.
We agreed that once a week we would deliver food packages to the Asociacion de Vecinos centre in Son Dameto and there we would be met by the person designated per apartment to collect and sign a receipt for the goods. We also agreed to visit the apartments and get to know the population we are dealing with so as to understand their problems and situation so as to see if we can help them in other ways.

We will be providing them with:
Rice (they tend to eat it every day with a sauce)
Macaroni
Spaguetti
All meat as long as it is not pork
Potatoes
Onions
Pepper
Tomato,fresh and canned
Garlic
Fish
Eggs
Milk
Bread
Oil

These things will enable them to cook and will mean that we will not have to rely on people cooking for us and delivering the hot food in time before it gets cold.
There are ALSO 3 women in the group with children and unemployed husbands. We will be looking more in to their situation as their vital needs are different to the main group.
So if all goes well we will be able to start this program very soon.
We are impressed by the support these Mali people give each other even in their time of great need.

We are looking in to other risk groups on the island. More on this later this week.

Another Mediterranea runner ran in the TUI Marathon

Email from Ian Grummett

"I completed the Marathon on Sunday in a time of 4hrs 45mins got real bad cramp after 30km but still managed to finish" and he raised about 300€!

We are seriously thinking of presenting our teams in the Brazil Olympics. 

TUI Marathon

All 4 runners, Andrew and Jazz Clemence, Jill Scholes and Frazer Hardie, ran the 10km !!
We understand that there might have been more runners running for Mediterranea.

We will keep you updated on how it all went and who was involved.

The beggars in Addis Ababa

An amazing  documentary about the extreme poverty in Addis based on two women from Kajima, Belay and Zemu who go to Addis to beg.
Click: HERE to watch it.

Blevins Franks Golf Tournament raises funds for children in need.

A big thank you to John and Hilary Lamb, Peter Worthington, Terry Cameron and other generous and considerate folks for donating 500€ for Mediterranea. This will help us support 25 children for a month in one of our schools in Ethiopia. That means they get 3 meals/day, education and even medical attention, if needed.

Keep on playing golf!

Solutions.

Dear Doreen
300€ is 15 children, fed (3x/day) educated, clothed and medicated (if needed) for a month in one of our schools in Ethiopia. For them you can be sure the 300 means a lot.
Thank you.
M
PS. By the way, you were also given 500€ by Minkner ! That makes 40 children! So with one event you and your team have solved the problem for a 10% of our children during a whole month!

Sta.Ponsa, Saturday 17/10/09

Good Morning All!

Just wanted to thank you for all your efforts on Saturday!  I think we were a great team, don’t you?  Alan was the hero of the day struggling early in the morning with thousands of nuts and bolts to put up what must have been one of the most complicated canopies in Mallorca!  However, Michael has promised to work on it, and get it together in time for the Xmas Fair!  Nevertheless, due to lack of prior publicity, I think we were all  a bit disappointed with the public attendance.  As suspected, the cheese-cloths didn’t go too well…  I think we all had this feeling about them and thankfully  decided to put some bric-a-brac and toys together. We managed to sell some very dubious examples which we thought no one would ever buy!!  We all gave our best and raised the (modest) sum of  300,28 € (which was probably more than any other stands took in); however, I must say that around 147 € of the total came out of the only full donation box… which shows how important it is to “plunge into the crowds a-begging”.   So, I guess we ought to have a least 3 people devoted to the tins for the Xmas fair.   The other 3 tins were so empty that we might as well leave them for the Xmas Fair. 

Finally; I attach the photos taken from my Motorola mobile – they’re not fab, but a wee memory of the day, and look forward to seeing you all at the next meeting for the Xmas Fair!

Best wishes,

Doreen