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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is the world’s leading independent medical relief organization. Their mandate is primarily focused on emergency relief and they often operate in areas where there is no medical infrastructure. For over 35 years they have been providing medical help to people caught in armed conflicts, floods, earthquakes, disease epidemics and famines. MSF has maintained their international reputation as one of the most respected, honest and well run aid organization.
We welcome any contribution you can make to the efforts of MSF. The owners of One World Bazaar will match any contribution that patrons make. We challenge our customers to contribute as much as they feel comfortable donating.
Over the last 18 years the Bazaar, and our customers have been able to contribute between $4,500 and $9,000 a year. In 2021 we raised a total of $8,382.50 ($4,191.25 from customers, matched by the Bazaar)! Please give generously to this worthy organization.
All cider and pumpkin revenue will go to MSF, and will be matched by the Bazaar.
Since 1983 the Shepherds of Good Hope have been providing food, lodging, emotional and spiritual support to anyone that comes to them. They provide an invaluable service to the poor and troubled of Ottawa, and by helping deal with these problems are providing a service for all of us in the area. We thank them for their invaluable work.
Each weekend the One World Bazaar will collect food and consumables for Shepherds. We ask that our customers consider bringing non-perishable donations to the Bazaar, which we will deliver that week. Each year our collection rate has increased, in 2008 it was about 8 shopping carts worth, in 2019 we collected 31 shopping carts of food over our sale period.
The Shepherds of Good Hope and their clients and One World Bazaar thank you very much.
All non-perishable food brought to the Bazaar will be delivered to Shepherds. Please bring what you can.
by Chris Tessier and Jill Woodley
Remember, the coffee at the entrance is paying for the construction of homes. Contribute what you can!
Over the last ten years our family has had the privilege to travel to Central and South America as part of a team building homes with Habitat for Humanity. We have traveled to remote areas in Guatemala, Nicaragua and built in the poverty stricken inner cities of El Salvador, Paraguay and Bolivia. In 2019, Over only three weekends, the Third World Bazaar customers donated $740 for our Trinidad build. Since 2010, a total of $12,440 has been raised through the wonderful generosity of the Bazaar coffee drinking customers; helping us build 26 homes and house 160+ people in six countries.
On November 14th, we left for Trinidad for our 12th Habitat for Humanity Global Village build. The build site was muddy and baron, and the team started from scratch, digging the foundation for a six room home. Over the course of the five days, the team worked from 7 am to 4 pm, through challenging rain storms, water accumulation and mud. We successfully built the foundation wall, that required hours of passing buckets of back fill, moving hundreds of large cement brick, and preparing cement and mortar by hand.
The team worked side by side with the family of six children and two adults. The hard work of the team put the home progress ahead by close to a month. After a long wait the family were thrilled to have a home to call their own.
Our volunteer work would not be possible if not for the generosity of the Third World Bazaar, who donate the Santropol Coffee beans, and for the last 9 years have allowed us to fundraise during the Bazaar. We are so thankful for the customers who come back year after year with so much interest and support. This year we raised $740 in three weekends, and we are so grateful for the incredible generosity.
As we say, you help us build homes “one coffee at a time.”
See you in the fall of 2020, as we prepare for our first build in Africa!
With tremendous gratitude.
Chris Tessier and Jill Woodley
Team Bennett and MacKillop Habitat for Humanity
