Connor’s Africa Service Trip

I’m excited to announce that Seven Peaks has sponsored my fundraising efforts by donating 100 day passes for the 2007 season ($20 value per pass).

For every donation of $40 you will receive one day pass, valid during the entire 2007 park season. Donate $80 and you get two, $120 gets you three, etc.

Folks, now you have no reason not to donate! Help Mothers Without Borders build its children’s village in Zambia for AIDS orphans while you soak in the sun this summer at Seven Peaks!

Click here to donate and then send me an email letting me know, so I can mail you your Seven Peaks passes!

• Over 70% percent of Zambians live in poverty.
• Per capita annual incomes are currently at about $395.
• Life expectancy at birth is about thirty-seven years.
• Maternal mortality is 729 per 100,000 pregnancies.
• HIV/AIDS is the nation’s greatest problem, with 17% prevalence among the adult population.
• Nearly one million Zambians are HIV positive or have AIDS. An estimated 100,000 died of the epidemic in 2004.
• Over a half-million Zambian children have been orphaned.

Source: Wikipedia

To get more donations in order to meet my fundraising goal, I’m going to be going door to door around the area in the upcoming weeks. I’ve made the following flyer to hand out:

One of my service goals for 2007 is to make 50 quilts to send to Zambia, Africa (where I’ll be going in July) through Mothers Without Borders. I got the idea from a family service project over this past Christmas break. Our family made two quilts while I was there (to also be sent to Africa) and I caught the quilting bug.

The frame, clamps, needles, and pins cost about $50. Once those basic supplies are purchased, each quilt costs about $13 for the supplies to assemble ($5 for two sheets, $7 for the polyester filler, and about a buck worth of yarn).

Here’s a time-lapse of the last quilt I made (with some much appreciated help from the lovely Chantelle). This is quilt number 8/50.

These types of projects are easy to do, relatively cheap, and a great way to relax after a long day (you’ll see me watching 24 and BYUTV in some of the pictures).

Wanna help?