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July 2013 Team Fundraiser

2013-03-29T19:03:20Z

Our July 2013 volunteer team who will be running a medical/dental clinic at MCF Kenya this summer will be hosting a fundraiser on Friday, April 26! It will be held at Toronto Chinese Community Church (100 Acadia Ave, Markham, ON). MCF founder Charles Mulli will be in town as the special guest speaker, and Esther Mulli will be in attending as well! For tickets please email willachu@rogers.com

NDCA Family Fun Run

2013-02-04T00:00:00Z

It's time to get geared up for the annual Newmarket District Christian Academy (NDCA) Family Fun Run in support of MCFCF! The event will take place on Saturday, May 25th, 2013.

Pledges collected by participants will go directly to MCFCF to help fund one of their current projects and registration fees will go to NDCA to ensure the costs of the event are covered. Any extra registration fees will go to helping NDCA with our own fundraising efforts. We also invite businesses to sponsor the event to help cover the costs and we have confirmed several returning sponsors but are certainly looking for a few more. Please let Maxine Lansing know if you have any ideas or potential sponsors that we can approach.

The link to the registration page on the Running Room site is http://www.events.runningroom.com/site/?raceId=8854

Go to our NDCA page to Donate Online

Any questions about the event can be directed to Maxine Lansing (maxineil@yahoo.com)

See photo from the May 2012 event!

Yatta Girls Project

2012-11-19T16:32:32Z

The Yatta home is one of six MCF locations in Kenya. It is unique in all of Africa because it ministers to 14 to 20 year old girls. It offers vocational training to young women, some of whom are frightened young mothers. While their babies are cared for in the nursery, they receive education and training to equip them with skills by which they can earn a living once they leave Yatta. Currently, there are 300 women being restored to health and receiving training.

The Centre is located in the open countryside, 2½ hours from Nairobi. It consists of several buildings: academic classrooms, dormitories, a nursery, and training facilities for tailoring, hairdressing, hygiene, and cooking.

WHO ARE THE “YATTA GIRLS “?

Every girl has been rescued from life on the streets. They have been forced into child labour, raped, or prostituted by their families. They are alone and desperate. These women, often with babies, are accepted into Yatta and given medical attention, counseling, and a special diet. A two year vocational training program has been especially designed for them. They are taught skills including hairdressing, beauty therapy, tailoring, home economics, and entrepreneurship. Their babies thrive and often remain permanently in the care of MCF. An average of 70 young women graduate every 2 years.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

The Yatta Girls need a chance to remake their lives. Funds donated to these girls are used for food, education, health care, training, and assistance in finding a career or micro financing their own small businesses. A tax receipted donation will make a huge difference. The girls are asking for your support in remaking their lives. Please consider sending a donation (a one time gift or monthly installments). You can enclose a cheque in the accompanying self addressed envelope or donate our website.

Download the Yatta Girls Project brochure

Salon Decorum Donates 635k in Supplies

2012-12-04T19:38:52Z

Here's a fantastic article from YorkRegion.com about Salon Decorum's successful fundraising campaign for MCF!

Newmarket salon owner makes major donation to Africa

Salon donates $635K in supplies. Salon Decorum owner Mandy MacFadden (from left) and staff members Magen Corrier, Leigh Schultz, Alysha Baldassarra, Sam Furlan, Megan Fellows and Victoria Atkins are empowering artistry in Africa. Michael Barrett

Mandy MacFadden is empowering artistry in Africa.
The former Sacred Heart Catholic High School graduate and current owner of Salon Decorum has donated $635,000 worth of hairdressing equipment and tools through the Hair Cares initiative she and her salon team created in the spring.
Her team of eight became aware of the Mully Children’s Family organization through a client who had just returned from a mission trip to Africa and told them about the women, many of whom have been rescued from the sex trade, studying hairdressing as a means to make a fresh start.
“Being a female entrepreneur, it just seemed to make sense to help,” Ms MacFadden said at her Leslie Street salon. “The support we have received is overwhelming and it has continued to snowball since we started the program.”
She canvasses local salons, hair schools and hair academies for the collection of tools, products and equipment they are no longer using. Ms MacFadden also works with various beauty supply outlets and manufacturers for donations and purchases tools at a discounted price.
Through presentations to well known hair product companies, she recently had 10,000 tubes of L’Oréal hair colour donated, 460 tubes of Pureology products, 31,000 bottles of Redkin product, towels, furniture, shampoo sinks and hair stations. Brushes, combs, mannequin heads and styling tools have also been collected.
“We go downtown to learn a new hairstyle and leave the mannequin head to be tossed because it is too embarrassing to carry on the subway, but this school can use them,” she said. “Many of us want to be up-to-date with the latest tools, but there is noting wrong with the old ones, so they can be donated as well.”
The salon also hosts charity events periodically to raise funds to purchase what the school needs most to help women trying to get back on their feet. African hand-made jewelry is also sold to help raise funds.
“I find people in this industry are so passionate,” she said. “To share that passion is very fulfilling.”
Even though she is amazed at the progress the campaign has made, she still aims to do more. In the future, she hopes to create a micro finance program that would provide start-up funds to the African women who want to start a salon.
It is an initiative that takes a village, she explained, adding she is amazed at the support the campaign has already received in such a short period of time, but noted more is always welcome.

Source: Newmarket, Era Banner, Pg. B1 November 29, 2012

To get involved or donate, visit salondecorum.com or our Hair Cares page.

St. Clair Greetings Give Back This Season

2012-11-06T16:12:00Z

Karen Cho, the owner of St. Clair Greetings gift store, shares about why she has decided to give a portion of the proceeds from her boxed Christmas Card sales to MCF this season:

“Last Christmas season, I had a strong feeling that I should support a charity organization through my store, but I wasn’t sure which charity I should be giving to. Then earlier this spring, a good friend of mine brought me to an evening gathering for a guest speaker name Charles Mulli from Kenya. I had never heard of Charles before, but when I heard him speak at the meeting, I felt deeply inspired by what he shared with us. I stayed afterwards to get a few words with him and to get his autograph for his book "Father to the Fatherless.” Even in that short encounter, I could sense peace, kindness, and humility from him when he spoke. Later on when I read his book, it helped me make the decision to support Mully Children’s Family. I was touched by how Charles overcame the cruelty and poverty in his childhood, and how he rose beyond his circumstances by the grace of God and through his faith in Him. So many lives have been transformed by this ministry. Without any doubt, I knew this was the charity that I wanted to support and I am very thankful that I became connected with MCF.”

P.S. For a $10.00 donation at St. Clair Greetings you can receive a Thymes Frasier Fir Candle (retail value $13.95). The candle donations will also go to MCFCF.

St. Clair Greetings is located at the concourse level in the St.Clair Centre Bldg, north east corner of Yonge & St.Clair, Toronto ON, M4T1L7

Dec 9, 2012 Update: So far we have raised $1062 from this campaign! Thank you for your generous donations!

Dec 16, 2012: We raised another $309.55 from candle fundraiser and $15 from book sales (3 books sold) on Sunday. So far we raised $1,371.55 from candle program, $105 from book sales and $601.88 (as of Dec.12) from Christmas boxed cards sales.

Jan 2, 2013: Christmas boxed cards fundraiser: Total of $839.80 donated to MCF. Candle gifts fundraiser (all 144 of the candles were given away!) Total of $1,638. Books fundraiser: Total of $135.

Salon Decorum fundraiser

2012-11-06T16:06:39Z

Salon Decorum's Beauty Market fundraising event for Hair Cares was a great success! Hair Cares was able to raise just over $3,000 for Mully Children's Family hairdressing program in Kenya, Africa. Thank you to all of our vendors, sponsors, clients, family and friends for showing a tremendous amount of support. Your support makes a world of difference to the young women at MCF's Yatta location. Thank you for being a part of this movement!

Check out photos from the event on Facebook!

July 2013 Team Travel

2012-10-12T02:01:25Z

Members from Richmond Hill Christian Community Church are recruiting for an upcoming volunteer trip to MCF Kenya from June 28 to July 15, 2013. They are hoping to recruit dentists, gynecologists, pediatricians, optometrists, nurses, servant leadership teachers, and anyone else with the heart to serve at MCF Kenya. If you are interested in joining the team or want more info, please contact alison@foglightsearch.com and randy@foglightsearch.com.

Click here to donate online to this team.

Holly Berry Fair

2012-10-10T15:31:56Z

On Saturday Nov. 24, we will be selling MCF jewelry at the Holly Berry Fair at Rosedale United Church. Come join the festivities and support MCF!
Location: Rosedale United Church, 159 Roxborough Drive, Toronto, ON
Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Christmas Bazaar @ Armour Heights

2012-10-10T15:22:36Z

On Saturday Nov. 10, join us at Armour Heights Presbyterian Church for the annual Christmas Bazaar! There will be lots of interesting vendors selling a variety of gift items. We will be there selling MCF's handcrafted jewellery items.
Location: 105 Wilson Avenue, Toronto, ON
Time:10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Salon Decorum Beauty Market

2012-10-07T16:29:11Z

Enjoy one on one consulting with beauty industry professionals and support Salon Decorum's very own campaign, Hair Cares. Tickets on sale now at Salon Decorum! $15 for advance tickets, $20 at the door. Delicious food from local restaurants, great music and fabulous raffle prizes.

Join us Thursday Oct 18, 7pm - 10 pm, at Salon Decorum: 16945 Leslie Street Unit 24, Newmarket, ON