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Community Hosts Yard Sale Event
to Benefit Sudanese Widows
August 27, 2005 It was a beautiful sunny day in Portland, Oregon - and a group from Imago Dei Community came together with a yard full of clothes, furniture, and other assorted treasures with the hopes of raising money for Sudanese Widows. The Home Community group had recently met and discussed how they could have a practical and loving impact on the community around them. One of the evenings they watched Hotel Rwanda; on another evening they listened to a talk about the Sudanese Widows Project. This Widows Project initiative was set up by Susan Tabia of the International Widows Association for Southern Sudanese Refugees in Uganda (IWASSRU). IWASSRU has been active for over a decade in Northern Uganda and Southern Sudan providing care and support for hundreds of widows and orphans who have been devastated by the civil war there. The team in Portland set aside a Saturday to collect used items from dozens of households for an event deemed "The Biggest Freakin' Yard Sale". The sale lasted from 8 AM to 4 PM. The money will then be sent to Uganda and Sudan where Susan Tabia and the team there will purchase food, clothing, blankets, and other essentials for the vulnerable widows of the region. Watch the video online of the Lahash team giving the gifts to the widows of Sudan. |
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