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Ebenezer Orphanage Home children ENDOWMENT PROGRAM in beautiful self-expression on Support the Mina Fund using your AIR World Music Day. Your support is vital to the Mina EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2015 MILES Cash Miles! Plus, you'll get a tax June 2015 Fund’s mission of Empowerment receipt for your donation. Dimapur, Nagaland Through Education. Small Change. Big Difference. To make a donation click here, or visit Please consider a planned gift Art Auction ChangeIt®, a new way to donate while https://www.airmiles.ca/donate. Enter PLEASE MAIL DONATIONS TO: making everyday purchases using your from your estate to endow Mina “dr mina mackenezie” in the Search existing BMO MasterCard. Dr. Mina MacKenzie Fund programs. Fundraiser box and follow these three easy steps: Memorial Trust Fund by Donna MacKenzie Page 2 For additional details contact: 6 Esker Drive,  Use your Cash Miles to get a We’re excited to announce our first A Legacy of Success Brampton, Ontario Bill Bayer donation code Art Auction fundraiser, to be held the Manjula was able to overcome a tragic L6Z 3C5 6 Esker Drive, week of November 23, 2015. Many start with the help of sponsors like you.  Click the link in your confirmation Phone: 905-840-3390 Brampton, Ontario L6Z 3C5 established artists have already Page 3 email Interac eTransfer: Phone: 905-840-3390 confirmed participation, including:  Make your donation [email protected] [email protected] Ann Louise Smith Donate Your Air Miles  Catherine Shane, selected to Now, you can support the Mina Fund paint The Hospital for Sick  Mixed media and acrylic artist using your AIR MILES Cash Miles—and support and motivation, they can for donations of $25 or more. Children, Toronto 2015 Sandee Ewasiuk get a tax receipt! Sponsorship achieve what everyone hopes for – a Donations can be made by cheque, Christmas card Page 4 by Bill Bayer better life. Interac eTransfer, Paypal, or by using the Chimp service. Child Sponsorship Through the help of sponsors like you, With child sponsorship, you receive: It takes about $1/day to change a life. For less than the price of a cup of the Mina Fund has changed the lives coffee a day, you can permanently im-  A picture and story of your Your support makes a major impact, of hundreds of children. With your prove the life of a child. sponsored child so please sponsor a child today!  Child’s annual progress report Page 4 Your donation at work:  Newsletter explaining the  $375 –Sponsorship of a child for difference you are making one full year  Charitable donation tax receipt  $100 – Medical treatments  Best of all, a meaningful  $ 50 – Room/board for 2 months relationship with the child you Catherine Shane sponsor, making you an active  $ 25 – School uniform  Ann Louise Smith, an artist in partner in your child’s progress Please share this newsletter with and development Lindsay whose uncle Walter others to encourage support of Mina Anderson was a missionary in Fund activities and bookmark our web Tax-deductible receipts will be issued India Sandee Ewasiuk Ranu, age 8. site and Facebook page! Amanda Brittin

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Broadwell Christian Hospital The Mina Fund helps this hospital provide lower prices for those in need. Without this support, truly Amanda Brittin Sandie Collins Michelle Jefferies-Snively poor people would be forced to  Multi-talented artist Amanda  Printmaker Sandie Collins creates  Michelle Jefferies-Snively paints sell an animal or other possession, Brittin creates jewelry, paintings, beautiful paper tapestries and from her heart, and her love of the or borrow from a money-lender mosaics and more experimental linoleum prints natural world charging exorbitant interest . A doctor’s visit is just 50 cents, so  Eva Rungis is sharing her  … and more to come! your help goes a long way. photographic work. Her beautiful Over the coming weeks, we’ll unveil images draw from a range of the artist biographies and pictures of perspectives their donated works. Artists and art patrons: If you’d Mina Fund donor support helped Manjula to overcome a tragic start like to participate in this event, Please register at the auction web Losing a parent is one of the most Manjula completed grade 12 with please contact us at 905-840-3390 site minafund2015.eflea.ca and check devastating things that can happen honors, then went to Ujjain to earn or [email protected]. back often for updates! to a child. But for Manjula Immanuel , her B.Sc. Nursing degree. Following Eva Rungis tragedy struck twice. completion of her training, Manjula Masihi Madhyamik Vidyalaya was hired as a tutor at the same When very young, Manjula lost her nursing college she graduated from. The Mina Fund currently supports mother to blood cancer. Then at age 47 students at Masihi Madhyamik five, her father was killed by an Warden Meenakshi David, who Vidyalaya in Neemuch, a high unknown person. Manjula’s Manjula thinks of as her adoptive school providing facilities for grandmother sent her to the mother, says Manjula visits at least student development. Christian Girls Hostel in Ratlam, twice a month. Manjula counts where she began her school classes Meenakshi’s nephews and niece and FAST FACTS at age 8. the other hostel children as her brothers and sisters. The Mina Fund is now a partner of At the end of each month, a donation You can track your donations online, Rather than being crushed by her ChangeIt®, a new way to donate while notification will be sent to your -e mail adjust your rounding preferences and losses at such a young age, Manjula Manjula says ”Mina Fund sponsorship making everyday purchases using your inbox showing your total contribution. even set a monthly maximum to $2,500.00 got the support she needed from the provided the support and encouraged existing BMO MasterCard. ChangeIt® At the end of the year, you’ll also ensure you never give more than you Mina Fund, and flourished. From the me in every step to grow, develop a lets you automatically round up your receive an official Income Tax Receipt want. start, Manjula was a brilliant student. positive outlook, discipline, and the purchases by pennies; you set the for every penny you donate! She attained high marks in every drive to succeed. I’m grateful for the limit, and donate the difference to us! ChangeIt® makes giving easy and The Christian Girls Hostel in Ratlam To support the Mina Fund through small change can make a huge has been using the dining room class, was very good at games and lasting friendships I’ve developed, For example, if you pay $2.82 for a ChangeIt®, you can: difference for children in need. tables, chairs and beds far beyond enjoyed singing. and look forward to the challenges coffee using your MasterCard, $0.18  Sign up your BMO MasterCard at Currently, you will also receive 25 Air their useful life—some of their my future holds!” could be rounded up, added to your ChangeIt.com Miles just for enrolling! furniture is more than 50 years old! Described as a loving, creative and other spare change round-ups and playful child and teen, Manjula Manjula is a wonderful example of  Select “Dr Mina MacKenzie Our goal is to raise at least $2,500 given to the Mina Fund in one simple developed into a kind and caring how the Mina Fund’s support of Memorial Trust Fund” and set your in infrastructure funding this year to young woman, with a sincere concern empowerment through education transaction each month. There is no rounding limits help address this need. Let us know for others. can help children to overcome even change to your receipt or your  Use your BMO MasterCard and if you can help! the worst adversity. purchasing experience. start making a difference!

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