It is a sad fact that in government schools in Afghanistan, as in many parts of the world, resources are almost non-existent and sometimes the teachers only show up a few days a week, leaving the eager children who want to learn to fend for themselves. He is a very good student and loves school, but was kept back because they had moved locations so many times. While we were having lunch, I learned that his oldest son who is 12 years old is only in the third grade because the government school will not let him test out to advance to the 6th grade where he should be for his age. On my last visit to Afghanistan, I was able to spend time with the family of our wonderful partner. Esmat is living proof that it can and does happen. In the world most of us live in on a daily basis, I doubt that we often think about the fact that we could do something quite insignificant to us that would actually “MAKE someone’s life”…changing their world forever and giving them hope for the future that we can’t even understand. Linda Topic: Afghanistan, Ghana, Nepal, Special Events, Uganda CELEBRATE LIFE AND HOPE in your own life and that of so many women you have served. This celebration is for everyone who has supported Eternal Threads with donations, purchasing products, volunteering or hosting a sale. Those funds could enable us to do all of this and much, much more. (Write “Celebration” in the Program:Other window). The board has set the goal of 1000 donors to give $65 each for this celebration. Contributions to Eternal Threads allow us to improve our products, website and marketing strategies.

Expand our market in order to support our artisans with consistent orders and sustainable income.

They have received visas to go to India from Afghanistan where they felt increasingly at risk as well as continuing our project in Afghanistan that his mother-in-law will oversee.

Support for our Afghan partner and his family.

$10,000 to support another anti-trafficking border unit in Nepal that can rescue 200 girls in a year…$50 a life!.$8000 for 80 rescued girls in Nepal to have sewing machines enabling them to start businesses when they return to their home villages.Help Rosemary expand her market in Uganda with rent for a local shop so she can have the funds to educate her four younger siblings.A production unit to make their own recycled beads and sandals and 6 sewing machines to train young women to sew. $3500 to help Rafiatu, in Ghana expand her business so she can employ more women and girls.

We have given over $1,000,000 of income to the women we serve just since 2005!!!! What more can we do? LIFE AND HOPE to hundreds of women and their families. When you talk about celebrating life, the last 15 years of the mission of Eternal Threads puts that in capital letters for me. On May 18 th we are celebrating my birthday and more importantly the 15 th anniversary of Eternal Threads. I didn’t have to think very long, however. I’m not sure why they should be, but certain milestones give us a way to celebrate life!Įven more rare than celebrating a birthday is having someone ask me what I want for my birthday, so when the Eternal Threads Board asked me what I wanted for my 65 th birthday, I had to think about it. By discoverable I mean a patron can utilize our online catalog (such as by searching by author, or title, or subject) to find these materials.I usually don’t celebrate birthdays, but maybe the milestones are different. Thanks to the close and careful work of our colleagues upstairs, who describe our holdings, these materials are now discoverable. Collecting and preserving is only part of our task those objects must be described and made available. But beyond assembly and preservation, a collection should be discoverable by those who need the information. Our goal is to build a comprehensive research-level collection of print materials by, for, and about the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement. Stevens, holding a rare copy of Biblia Sacra, led a procession of students and faculty carrying volumes into the new facility. John Stevens (President) at the beginning of the transfer of books from the ‘old’ library in Chambers Hall to the ‘new’ Brown Library. Callie Faye Milliken (Special Collections Librarian) and Dr.

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