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Ten Thousand Villages helps CNIS

December 1st, 2010

Our warmest seasonal thanks goes to Broadway Ten Thousand Villages in Vancouver. The store donated $750, or 10% of their sales on Nov 27 and Dec 3rd to CNIS.

A dozen CNIS volunteers set up an information table at the entrance to the store and offered home made cookies (made by said volunteers!) and hot apple cider to the costumers braving the Vancouver rains.

We are most grateful to The Shakti Dance Society and the Hearts Drums and Space who kindly preformed for us and helped make the fundraiser both fun and memorable. Thank you also to the most helpful Ten Thousand Villages staff, and especially Kristen.

CNIS welcome partnerships as these with local businesses to raise funds and awareness for our life-saving work in Africa. If you are interested in talking to us about a potential partnership, please contact us today.

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A NIGHT ON THE NILE

May 14th, 2010

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Join CNIS for A NIGHT ON THE NILE, an classic movie-theme dinner and silent auction evening held on Granville Island’s Performance Works to raise funds to build and equip a surgical skills lab in Moshi, Tanzania. All funds raised will be matched by the Canadian International Development Agency. Your $75 ticket include a 3-course meal, live entertainment, silent auction and your $40 tax receipt. A Night on the Nile is a double guilt-free pleasure, as you not only help with our life-saving work, but also participate in a carbon neutral event!

Check out our amazing silent auction donations, including artwork by Canadian artists Robert and Brigid Bateman.

Friday June 11, 2010 from 7:00 PM to Midnight

Performance Works
1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver

The event is now SOLD OUT, but you can still help by purchasing a brick for the new lab.

For more information, please go to the Event page

If you cannot make the event, you can still help us by buying a ‘brick’ for the teaching lab. A lab costs $40,000 to build. We will be selling 400 bricks at $100 each. The first 200 to buy a brick will receive an original mixed media on wood mini art piece by Canadian artist Jon Izen. You will also get your name on our virtual brick wall (coming soon) To donate a brick, click here.

(Download Event Poster 547KB PDF)

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Jewelry shopping ships surgical books

October 5th, 2009

Taraxa Jewellery in Vancouver has donated $1870 to the Uganda book project, helping CNIS ship new surgical books to medical libraries in Uganda. From October 13 to November 13, $2 from every sale over $20 in their two stores was donated. The fundraiser ended with an open house on November 13, with food, African music and jewellery shopping. 50% of the proceeds for the evening were generously donated to CNIS.