Tareto Maa

Tareto Maa is a grassroots organization that I have admired and supported since they began.  Tareto Maa runs a shelter in Kenya for girls at risk of Female Genital Mutilation and early enforced marriage.  The progress they have achieved is amazing.  However, each year sees more and more girls learning of a safe refuge and so the need grows.

We are currently taking part in a fund raising competition  The challenge runs from now until December 31, 2011 (2359 hrs EST).

You can help us win some extra funds for the project by just sharing the project page on facebook by hitting its "share" button on Global Giving (right below "donate" on the right side of the page). The 5 projects who have raised at the end at least $2,000 from at least 25 different people and have shared their project page through this way the most on facebook will win an extra bonus of $300.

In addition, the project with the greatest number of unique donors at the end will be awarded a bonus of $2,000. Currently we are this project, yay... and if we stay like this, that would be just fantastic! Because an extra bonus of $2,000 would mean that we could build another urgently needed dormitory for the girls.

If you feel you could help with even a small donation then the best day would be today, Wed, 14 Dec.  This day will be "Bonus Day" on Global Giving. This means that all online, unique donations will be matched at 15% till the total matching grant of $3000 is used up.

The story is btw - of course - also Kiva related as we have a Kiva lending team  that supports the project.


later man, jan