BUY A BRICK
Donation protected
"Buy a Brick" for Lama in The Gambia
Project on Hold.
Australian Bush Fires & drop in economic downturn means putting plans for House on Hold.
We Thank the Dock in Kingston, Canberra, where most of this collection of Bricks helped to build the Wall and finish the Gate.
January 2020
Lama says he is okay.
He sent us photo's of the boundary Fence Gate (we funded late last year) that is now made & installed (isn't it beautiful?)
... Plus two photo's of his Mothers Gardens.
He also sends his LOVE to EVERYONE and wishes us all a Happy New Year.
Lama's Mothers Food Gardens - now surrounded by the Boundary Fence + Gate. His family is so grateful of our support and their progress. Thank You to everyone who has contributed this far... we made a difference.
The Goal now is to start to build the House. To find out the whole story of Lama's situation and journey please go to his website on www.urbancolours.online
I do hope you hear Lama's desperate call. He is a humble, hard-working generous and extremely honest young man supporting his Mother and her children since their father died, also last year.
Lama appeals to your goodwill to help him fundraise and give him your support to build a house. The family owns land now but are homeless.
Urban Colours - House Budget http://www.urbancolours.online/house-budget.html
Our other Go Fund Me site is www. gofundme. com/ urban-colours
November-December 2019
It is harder to campaign with a "gofundme" site when the family you are supporting is homeless in The Gambia, West Africa ... on the other side of the world. Lama, who provides for his mothers family, is sick, he has Malaria. He is homeless, has a job but is presently unable to work. This means marketing his project to build a house for his family from Canberra has become more difficult because without his own engagement, momentum on the project is slower.
I am busy learning how to screen-print T-Shirts and create other hand-made craft items that he could sell to the tourists in The Gambia. These are new skills for me. Getting the photo-emulsion for the image on the silk-screen is a tricky business. It is a process, yes and I wish I had a mentor or some local help.
This month I am trying to raise the funds to send two DHL boxes to him with cloths, solar lights and toys for the children. Over the past months we have raised $1,800 odd which paid for the Gate for his boundary fence and sent $600 for medicine.
I wont give up however with so much need everywhere in the world, I know the pace for raising funds is slower then we had hoped. If you can support us in any way with your ideas, hands or contribution you would make a huge difference. Lama and his family need to build a house.
September-October
Things are tough at present for Lama and his family in The Gambia. Lama has been very sick with Malaria. It means he has been off-work and has been sent to Dakar Hospital in Senegal... which is a long way from Brikama Markets, his Mother and her Children. Please if you can please help and donate. I am doing what I can to fundraise now (in the background ... using a Square Reader (digital wallet) .... selling small craft-products to keep this project alive. Lama needs hope at this time and any contributions you make show him that we do care and want to help him make a difference in his life. He isn't free, to explore his own life until he finishes building a House for his Mother & her children. Lama's father died of Malaria last year and this haunts the entire family. Our help... makes an incredible difference... to this young man, who truly deserves our total support and absolute respect.
August update 2019
We have virtually finished the Boundary Fence... just waiting for the Hand-Made Gate to arrive.
We celebrate the progress we made over the past few months. It was hard-work for us but not as hard as it was for Lama to organise and work in-between looking after his mothers family. Lama at 18 years old, is the sole-breadwinner for five others in his Mothers family and helps friends whenever he can. I so respect the willfulness and motivation of this one young man.
Jan-June 2019
Lama and his family have a small piece of land in The Gambia (West Africa). They are trying to raise funds to Build a House on land their father left them before he died... recently.
Lama, 18 years old is the sole provider for his mothers family. He and his friends have hand-made 4,700 bricks for a boundary fence.
We raised AUD $3,000 to pay a Mason to build the Fence on his families land in combination with the https://www.gofundme.com/urban-colours website. Now our focus is to raise the funds to build the house.
Please sponsor Lama and "Buy some Bricks".
This project works to assist one extremely poor family, who are presently homeless in West Africa.
Find out more from www.urbancolours.online
Please Share this post with your friends, we need to raise these funds ASP.
Thank You,
Maria Altmann
Urban Colours: House Budget http://www.urbancolours.online/house-budget.html
Project on Hold.
Australian Bush Fires & drop in economic downturn means putting plans for House on Hold.
We Thank the Dock in Kingston, Canberra, where most of this collection of Bricks helped to build the Wall and finish the Gate.
January 2020
Lama says he is okay.
He sent us photo's of the boundary Fence Gate (we funded late last year) that is now made & installed (isn't it beautiful?)
... Plus two photo's of his Mothers Gardens.
He also sends his LOVE to EVERYONE and wishes us all a Happy New Year.
Lama's Mothers Food Gardens - now surrounded by the Boundary Fence + Gate. His family is so grateful of our support and their progress. Thank You to everyone who has contributed this far... we made a difference.
The Goal now is to start to build the House. To find out the whole story of Lama's situation and journey please go to his website on www.urbancolours.online
I do hope you hear Lama's desperate call. He is a humble, hard-working generous and extremely honest young man supporting his Mother and her children since their father died, also last year.
Lama appeals to your goodwill to help him fundraise and give him your support to build a house. The family owns land now but are homeless.
Urban Colours - House Budget http://www.urbancolours.online/house-budget.html
Our other Go Fund Me site is www. gofundme. com/ urban-colours
November-December 2019
It is harder to campaign with a "gofundme" site when the family you are supporting is homeless in The Gambia, West Africa ... on the other side of the world. Lama, who provides for his mothers family, is sick, he has Malaria. He is homeless, has a job but is presently unable to work. This means marketing his project to build a house for his family from Canberra has become more difficult because without his own engagement, momentum on the project is slower.
I am busy learning how to screen-print T-Shirts and create other hand-made craft items that he could sell to the tourists in The Gambia. These are new skills for me. Getting the photo-emulsion for the image on the silk-screen is a tricky business. It is a process, yes and I wish I had a mentor or some local help.
This month I am trying to raise the funds to send two DHL boxes to him with cloths, solar lights and toys for the children. Over the past months we have raised $1,800 odd which paid for the Gate for his boundary fence and sent $600 for medicine.
I wont give up however with so much need everywhere in the world, I know the pace for raising funds is slower then we had hoped. If you can support us in any way with your ideas, hands or contribution you would make a huge difference. Lama and his family need to build a house.
September-October
Things are tough at present for Lama and his family in The Gambia. Lama has been very sick with Malaria. It means he has been off-work and has been sent to Dakar Hospital in Senegal... which is a long way from Brikama Markets, his Mother and her Children. Please if you can please help and donate. I am doing what I can to fundraise now (in the background ... using a Square Reader (digital wallet) .... selling small craft-products to keep this project alive. Lama needs hope at this time and any contributions you make show him that we do care and want to help him make a difference in his life. He isn't free, to explore his own life until he finishes building a House for his Mother & her children. Lama's father died of Malaria last year and this haunts the entire family. Our help... makes an incredible difference... to this young man, who truly deserves our total support and absolute respect.
August update 2019
We have virtually finished the Boundary Fence... just waiting for the Hand-Made Gate to arrive.
We celebrate the progress we made over the past few months. It was hard-work for us but not as hard as it was for Lama to organise and work in-between looking after his mothers family. Lama at 18 years old, is the sole-breadwinner for five others in his Mothers family and helps friends whenever he can. I so respect the willfulness and motivation of this one young man.
Jan-June 2019
Lama and his family have a small piece of land in The Gambia (West Africa). They are trying to raise funds to Build a House on land their father left them before he died... recently.
Lama, 18 years old is the sole provider for his mothers family. He and his friends have hand-made 4,700 bricks for a boundary fence.
We raised AUD $3,000 to pay a Mason to build the Fence on his families land in combination with the https://www.gofundme.com/urban-colours website. Now our focus is to raise the funds to build the house.
Please sponsor Lama and "Buy some Bricks".
This project works to assist one extremely poor family, who are presently homeless in West Africa.
Find out more from www.urbancolours.online
Please Share this post with your friends, we need to raise these funds ASP.
Thank You,
Maria Altmann
Urban Colours: House Budget http://www.urbancolours.online/house-budget.html
Organizer
Maria Altmann
Organizer
Causeway ACT
