A BIG Thank You!

I just wanted to pass on the letter of thanks I received from CARE International to all who paticipated. -Kathy-Diane Leveille

Thank you for participating in Writers who CARE: The 50/50 Project in support of CARE Canada.

I’m pleased to advise that the project goal to raise $1,000 was surpassed and even more Canadians, including 20 budding writers, have been introduced to CARE and our mission to empower women and girls around the world to fight global poverty.

I would like to offer a special thank you to Kathy-Diane Leveille for launching this incredible project as well as to all of you for your participation. Your support made all the difference in making this fundraiser a success!

Founded in 1945, CARE is the foremost international humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. In over 80 countries, CARE works with the poorest communities to improve basic health and education, enhance rural livelihoods and food security, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity, help vulnerable people adapt to climate change and provide lifesaving assistance during emergencies. Funds raised for the Writers who CARE project will be directed to support CARE’s relief efforts in East Africa.

Thank you again for your contribution. We invite you to stay in touch with CARE and keep updated on to fight poverty around the world.

Visit www.care.ca for more information.

Sincerely

Rosemary Tassie
Officer, Ambassador Relations & Events
Agente, ambassadeurs & événements
rosemary.tassie @care.ca | Tel: (613) 228-5603
CARE Canada | www.care.ca
200-9 Gurdwara Rd | Ottawa, ON K2E 7X6

Who is donating?

Thank you to those who have contributed to our cause. To date, we have have raised over $400.00.  Here's a look at a few of the people who have donated:

I have a dual rationale for donating. First, I truly believe that we need to promote awareness of the crisis in Eastern Africa. Secondly, it afforded me the opportunity to donate to a worthwhile cause while connecting with other writers. I am grateful to those experienced writers who agreed to read our work. It is their generous support, and the effort behind Writers Who Care, that is truly inspiring.

-Andrea Kikuchi

I decided to donate to Writers Who Care for a couple of reasons. The first is that I support, as much as my pocketbook will allow, writer sponsored charity drives because I know the funds raised will go to where the help is most needed. The situation in Somalia is devastating. The second is the opportunity to have my manuscript evaluated by a well known published author. In my case, Ashley March, a well known romance author.

Writers Who Care came at a good time for me because I’d just entered Lord Beaumont’s Bride in to the Romance Writers' of America’s Golden Heart writing competition for unpublished authors. Lord Beaumont’s Bride, is about an innocent spinster seeking love and the rake who traps her into marriage.

-Ella Quinn

I believe that we are all connected in time and space in this planet of ours and that we share pains and laughs even from far away. Thus, we feel a sense of obligation to help, within the constraints of our means, our brothers and sisters in distress regardless of where they live. I had already made a contribution through my church, but could not resist Kathy-Diane’s call. I do not consider myself either a writer or a poet. I just enjoy writing, shifting from essays to short stories and poems and even to the composition of songs.  Three months ago I organized my poems into a collection of 37 pieces and was looking for an experienced writer to find out whether they were any good. When Lee Thompson, the executive director of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, forwarded Kathy-Diane’s message, I thought that my prayers had been answered. Not only was I going to receive a general evaluation of my poems at a nominal cost, but my contribution would go to a worthy cause.  Yours was a great idea, Kathy-Diane. As a beneficiary of your creativity, I am very grateful to you and to Mike Blouin, who kindly agreed to read my poems. 

-Joe Ruggeri

I think the 50 pages for 50 dollars initiative is creative and fun. It makes donating a two-way street. I'm sure that writers, like most artists, don't have a whole lot of extra cash to donate themselves, but they have big hearts and want to do what they can. Lovely idea of someone else providing the cash and the writers showing their expertise and experience. It's brilliant.  

-Jen Powley