SOLID at the Film Festival

Join SOLID at the Annual Salt Spring Island Documentary Film Festival, March 2-4th at Gulf Islands Secondary School.  SOLID is among the many important causes you’ll find at the festival rooted in social justice and change.

It aims to educate, inspire and activate our community through a festival of independent documentary film from Canada and around the world presenting films that explore music, art and culture, engage humanitarian and social justice concerns and deal with environmental and international issues.

GISS Leadership Fundraising Banquet December 9, 2011

Students in the leadership program of the Gulf Islands Secondary School are organizing a fundraising dinner on the ninth of December to send menstrual kits to communities in Africa. The kits cost $5 each and consist of:
3 pairs of underpants (bought in the local market)
5 reusable pads (made by Dormer K)
1 small plastic pail with a lid (bought locally)
1 6″ bar of soap (bought locally).

The event is a dinner, it is set in three classes; upper class, middle class, and poverty. When you buy your ticket at the door or another location you will get a number 3, 2, or 1 this number represents what class you are in and where you will be sitting. For each class a different dish is served and service is given (example. upper class will have nice table cloths and will being served by a waiter. Poverty will be sitting on the floor and someone will come around and pass out bread and water to them with a small bowl of lentils.) This way of sitting is to show people what it is like to be under the poverty line and what it is like to be in the upper class in this country.

Each ticket will cost $25 for adults and $15 for students. There will be fair trade things sold and an auction of a painting from a local artist from Kenya. Everyone will be able to donate money and buy things. We are hoping for people to come with there wallets full and leave feeling like the money they have spent is going to a greater cause then buying something useless.

World Aids Day December 1, 2011

World Aids Day March with the Global Awareness Group of Gulf Islands Secondary School, starting at 12:20PM at GISS.

All are invited to join.

Silent Auction November 27, 2011

Summer 2011 Newsletter

See the Summer 2011 SOLID newsletter

Salt Spring Islanders Buy Goats (Kenya)

Provisions for Women and Girls (Kenya)

Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Update (Malawi)

Alternate Rites of Passage for Kenyan girls

Lifeline Lights in Kenya

Kwizera Recording in Rwanda

Tasaru and the Maasai Beyond (Kenya)

The SOLID Exchange (Salt Spring Island)

SOLID & I-SEA GALA FUNDRAISER & MUSIC EVENT

Sunday, November 1st, Harbour House, @ 6:30-9pm. Join us for an evening of fun and eco-shopping as you bid on over 80 items in our silent auction. There will be wonderful food and also music by Stephanie Rhodes and Billie Woods. Tickets are only $10.00.

All proceeds go to SOLID’s projects in Africa and I-SEA’s local sustainability projects. Come on out and help support these great organizations and the work that they do.

Contact: Margery Moore – 250-537-4400 or 202-494-0534 or sustain@saltspring.com or solid.saltspring@gmail.com

Got Face Book?  Please view our Event Page for photos or items that will be up for auction.

Great Lake Walk, September 19, 2009

On September 19th Meron Moroz and Sam Barlow of SaltSpring Island will walk 56 km in the Great Lake Walk around Cowichan Lake. We will be fundraising for two organizations, SOLID and Partners for Others.

SOLID supports several projects in Sub-Saharan Africa including a school for orphans, gardens, paliative care centre, cultural centre, disabled centre and a girls rescue centre.

Partners for Others has shipped over 2 million pounds of donated goods to the South Pacific, Asia the Carribean and Southern Africa. They have provided jobs, tools and equipment that have allowed men and women in Swaziland to earn a living, support their own families and, in turn, to pay school fees for over 160 children in their community.

To donate to this fundraising project please contact the SOLID office, 125 McPhillips Avenue, SaltSpring Island, BC, V8K 2T6, solid.saltspring@gmail.com or through this website. We can issue Canadian and US tax receipts, please visit the “What You Can Do” tab for instructions.

MEMEZA AFRICA

Memeza Africa, the masterful fusion of African and Canadian music, dance and spirit are returning to Canada after a hugely successful tour to sold out audiences throughout Western Canada in 2008. Memeza Africa will be performing at

The ArtSpring Theatre on Salt Spring Island Sunday May 17, 2009 at 2:30p.m.

This profoundly powerful and spirited group features South African artist Jimmy Mulovhedzi together with Canadian singer/songwriter Holly Wright supported by an ensemble of 18 dynamic singers, drummers and dancers from Soweto, South Africa. This unique fusion of African and Western music combined with the energy of the traditional African rhythms and dance, had audiences dancing in the aisles, weeping with emotion and on their feet in thunderous applause in praise of this show on their 2008 tour.

Members of this group have performed for or shared the stage with: Nelson Mandela; Oprah Winfrey; Quincy Jones; Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Soweto Gospel Choir and kd lang. They were selected as the entertainers for the FIFA Confederations Cup Draw in Johannesburg South Africa in November of 2008 and are now bringing their incredible talent to Canada. For further information visit www.memezaafrica.org

Newsletter March 2009

March 2009 Update

Sala Hantle Walk & Fun Run

 

The Sala Hantle Africa Walk & Fun Run is a University of British Columbia Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences fundraiser for sub-Saharan African communities devastated by HIV/AIDS. This year the event is being expanded in partnership with VIDEA to include a fundraising run at Elk and Beaver Lakes in Victoria, as well as the primary event at UBC on March 15^th, 2009.

Sala Hantle (Stay Well) Africa is a project of the Saltspring Organization for Life Improvement and Development (SOLID). In early 2007, SOLID members Beth Gessinger, a nurse, and Anna Callegari, a pharmacist, traveled to Africa and identified several local projects critical to communities so heavily impacted by poverty and AIDS. With financial and human resources in such severe shortage, these projects continue to struggle to maintain even the most basic operations. This is where Sala Hantle Africa lends their support by providing direct financial aid to HIV/AIDS support and care institutions and organizations, and through securing in-kind support such as medical supplies, pharmaceutical drugs and other necessary supplies and equipment.

Sala Hantle Africa’s projects include:
- Supporting a comfort fund and training of Home Based Care workers in the Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Centre in Malawi
- Support for a clinic and basic medical care of the Kambhoke Orphan and Vulnerable Children School in Swaziland
- Supporting a community clinic at the Phelisanong Disabled HIV-AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children Community Project in Lesotho

For more information on the Sala Hantle Africa Walk & Fun Run, please visit www.staywellafrica.com and for more information on SOLID projects, please visit the other pages on this site.

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