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1277 Poker Flat Place
San Jose, CA 95120

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PRESSING NEEDS:  INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Water: Pumps, water tanks, irrigation, rain catchment ($5000)
2. Electricity:  Transformer ($10,000)
3. New Classroom:  ($7,500)
4. Shipping of Supplies and Materials:  We have collected school uniforms, textbooks, computer and shoes from local schools in Marin and have enough to fill a 40 foot container.  Estimated cost to ship a container:  ($10,000)
5. Bamboo Crafts Center: build a small workshop and teach our children and teens
   in the art of bamboo ($3000)

Fund the Development Program

We have recurring costs of running the program which includes salaries for our 18 staff employees in Ethiopia.  We also have the costs of running a school, which includes teacher supplies, student supplies, uniforms, shoes, and administration.

If you would like to designate your investment to a particular program area please select:

1. Education Program: Kindergarten and Primary school, Female Literacy program

2. Health Program: establishing health hut, Nutrition program:  agricultural school lunch garden, animal husbandry, beehives

3. Livelihoods Program: Micro-finance for women, coffee farmers

4. Seniors Program: A Center for Elders, cultural shows and meetings

B. Corporate Matching:

Does your company or organization have a Matching Gift Program?
If so, please check the box and submit your matching gift to double your impact now! Matching gift forms may be sent via email to andwenz@gmail.com or mailed to: Common River, 72 Hazel Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941

C. In Honor / In Memoriam Gifts

If this donation is in honor of someone or in memoriam, please check the box above and enter their name and address in an e-mail so that we may send an acknowledgment.

Learn What Common River Offers and what you can do for Aleta Wondo

We would like to thank our major donors:

• Christensen Fund
• Mt. Tamalpais School
• Equator Coffee
• French American Charitable Trust
• Exotic Origins Coffee
• World Runners
• Lafayette Church
• World-Minded Humanitarians
  and many private donors like you……