SLC Needs Your Help to Get to Mozambique…AGAIN!

Friends and Supporters of The Africa Project: Dance with Us, Not with AIDS

A warm hello to all of you with the hope this finds you enjoying this amazing spring weather. So much has happened at SLC since our last letter to you: we’ve had a new website built, changed our “home” location, became a registered charity, returned to Mozambique with an extraordinary team (including 8 fantastic recent Humber theatre grads) to make a bilingual production of Romeo and Juliet, made a show for the Veterans’ Centre at Sunnybrook Hospital and returned to the rehearsal hall to continue work on Romeo and Juliet – Signing the Bard (seems to be the show this year!). We are hoping you have had the chance to read the newsletter that we sent out back in the fall. If not, it is posted on the website and that will bring you up to date on all of our news.

And now, we find ourselves at “that time again”. It’s the time of the year that we turn to you, our constant supporters, to help us to return to Quelimane to grow this amazing project. This year’s trip, scheduled to depart June 21st, will see a reduced team with the task of planning for our most ambitious project yet scheduled to take place in the summer of 2011. Stay tuned for details on that. Karen and Bill, our long time hosts and “angels” on the ground in Quelimane are leaving their post and returning to Canada. They warned us this time would come and have stretched their stay longer to help accommodate us. This trip will help us set up the logistics of accommodation, transport, planning and contacts to facilitate our future work. While we are there this summer of course we will also spend time with Montes Namuli and with the PEDRA girls, and time providing, we will finally venture outside of Quelimane into the mountains to meet the rural PEDRA girls (the program now has 800 girls in total).

If you are able this year to help us, we would be very grateful. As we have said in years gone by everything helps – no donation is too small. Trasie, our web designer, has made it really easy to do online donations – one click takes you there. Simply visit www.shakespearelinkcanada.ca and you will be directed to CanadaHelps or Paypal. Of course, we still welcome cheques in the mail if that suits you better.