ISSUE 1 DR. MINA MACKENZIE MEMORIAL TRUST FUND NEWSLETTER PAGE 4 DR. MINA MACKENZIE MEMORIAL TRUST FUND NEWSLETTER lowest caste. The area around them for the children and people at able to celebrate Christmas and for is semi-desert and the hot season of Fort Massey.) this I and my family want to give our Mina Fund late April to the end of June is when thanks. I have such good luck in Dear brothers and sisters, the school break takes place. having people such as you to help me To all of you I send my loving greetings and I am taking advantage of this, Newsletter Her father, Mahesh, is a farm labourer and always know that I am completely brothers and sisters. and suffers from some mental health happy here and hope that all of you are issues (as mentioned in one of the I have earned a pass in this term. In this happy in your country, with your translated letters from Shivani) and hostel school I am honestly getting an families. Please receive sincere, her mother, Shaida, is not well. She excellent education. I give thanks to heartfelt Christmas and New Year Dr. Mina has a little brother named Virendra God that His mercy through you people MacKenzie greetings from me and all my hostel and a little sister named Khushee. has come into my life and for this I give 1872-1957 sisters and brothers. They live in a hut they own, which has all of you my great thanks for this no water or electricity. Brothers and sisters, I am from a support you have given. Hindu family and our main celebra- Our congregation continues to Once again Christmas greetings to you tion is Diwali, and this causes great sponsor Shivani. As voiced by some from your Indian daughter, excitement and also certainly in my members, “We have taken on this hostel. I have learned how Christmas Shivani Mahesh responsibility and it would be a shame is observed, all of us children and our EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION IN THIS ISSUE SUMMER 2015 if anything should get in the way of mother have found out about and our continuance of this support. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: observed Christmas. Also, we were Compassion. Commitment. 25 Years of Service Thankfully, the Mina Fund will be very happy since we got the chance to by Donna MacKenzie & Bill Bayer The Mina Fund is proud to celebrate 25 continuing its excellent work.” Fort Massey United Church years of working to improve the expe- celebrate Christmas. All our hostel 5303 Tobin Street, Following is a translation of the first celebrated and then did a Christmas Dr. Jemima MacKenzie (MD 1904, she made on the lives of others are riences and life chances of children. Halifax, NS, B3H 1S3 LLD’40) stopped at nothing when it still felt today. letter received from Shivani around drama and then we had a dinner. 902-423-4294 Page 2 Christmas 2012 (Note: letters are Brothers and sisters we then went came to helping the poor and sick of [email protected] Our Goals. Our Promise. A Legacy of Success clearly written out by a teacher or an with them to their house. In this way . She prevented an outbreak of http://www.fortmasseychurch.com Through the support of sponsors like older student in Hindi. I then translate I, the daughter of a Hindu family, was cholera after inoculating people night The Mina Fund is dedicated to you, Regan’s life was changed forever. and day. She learned how to perform improving the lives of disadvantaged cataract by correspondence. children in India by providing Page 2 With child sponsorship, you receive: Your donation at work: She once detonated dynamite to opportunities for better education. Supporter Profile Sponsorship  $375 –Sponsorship of a child for blast a well and supply a rural  A picture and story of your community with safe drinking water. Today, we help approximately one It takes a community to raise a child. by Bill Bayer one full year sponsored child She built hospitals, ran orphanages hundred children yearly. By breaking Learn about Fort Massey United  $100 – Medical treatments Church’s outreach program. Through the help of sponsors like you,  Child’s annual progress report and adopted dozens of abandoned the cycle of poverty through  $ 50 – Room/board for 2 months the Mina Fund has changed the lives  Newsletter explaining the children. education, your financial support Page 3 of hundreds of children. With your  $ 25 – School uniform makes a significant difference! difference you are making Child Sponsorship support and motivation, they can Resourceful, determined, gutsy.  Charitable donation tax receipt Please share this newsletter with For less than the price of a cup of achieve what everyone hopes for – a These words seem like under- ENDOWMENT PROGRAM  Best of all, a meaningful others to encourage support of Mina statements when it comes to coffee a day, you can permanently im- better life. prove the life of a child. relationship with the child you Fund activities and bookmark our web describing Jemima MacKenzie, who Your support is vital to the Mina sponsor, making you an active site and Facebook page! graduated from Dalhousie Medical Fund’s mission of Empowerment Page 4

partner in your child’s progress School at the turn of the last century. Through Education. and development PLEASE MAIL DONATIONS TO: The daughter of a Pictou County, Please consider a planned gift Canada farmer, Dr. Mina spent more from your estate to endow Mina Tax-deductible receipts will be issued Dr. Mina MacKenzie than thirty years of her life in India, Fund programs. for donations of $25 or more. Memorial Trust Fund where she worked tirelessly to Donations can be made by cheque, 6 Esker Drive, For additional details contact: positively impact the lives of Interac eTransfer, Paypal, or by using Brampton, Ontario Bill Bayer thousands of poor and disadvantaged the Chimp service. L6Z 3C5 6 Esker Drive, children, women and men. It takes about $1/day to change a life. Phone: 905-840-3390 Brampton, Ontario L6Z 3C5 Your support makes a major impact, Interac eTransfer: Dr. Mina felt that every person Phone: 905-840-3390 Sonam, age 10. so please sponsor a child today! [email protected] mattered and ripples of the impact [email protected] Bill, Courtney, Alexandra & Maryellen Bayer

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We continuously review our processes MINA FUND AT WORK: 25 Years of and technology to work smarter and TWO EXAMPLES ensure the highest percentage of your The Mina Fund supports about one donation reaches the children and Service hundred children in programs the Mina Fund supports! Ratlam, , by Donna MacKenzie Recent developments: and Dimapur. In 1990, my Aunt Sarina and Uncle  Database program for tracking William Bayer established the Dr. The Mina Fund also expenditures and donations Mina MacKenzie Memorial Trust Fund supports the Broadwell Christian (The Mina Fund). As Dr. Mina’s  Recording of student identity Girls Christian Hostel Hospital in Fatehpur, adopted daughter, Sarina wanted to sheet and progress report Girls Christian Hostel provides a which Dr. Mina continue Dr. Mina’s legacy. Continuing the legacy ... safe and nurturing environment  Posting of Facebook and Twitter MacKenzie founded for orphaned and poor students, Sarina and William guided fund activ- For almost 25 years, Sarina and updates to promote awareness of in 1910. empowering these children to ities based on the belief that as William both devoted considerable Mina Fund charitable activities children are empowered to realize time and energy raising funds to achieve lifelong success.  Encouraging sponsors to support their potential, they bloom and enrich support Mina Fund activities. When Mina Fund activities with an the world we all share. William died in early 2011, Sarina Supporter Profile continued to operate the fund, with endowment from their estate Fort Massey United Church: Ongoing support for The Mina Fund the help of her sons.  Interac eTransfer and Paypal options for donations by Ian MacDonald At the beginning of 2015, Sarina ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Founded as a Presbyterian Church in Ratlam, its location, the conditions of passed the torch to her son Bill 1871, Fort Massey United Church has life for those in the area and pictures Bayer and to me, her niece. As the William Bayer an active view regarding outreach for and information about the little girl next generation of MacKenzie 6 Esker Drive, Ebenezer Orphanage Home those less fortunate. Our congrega- that was selected for us to sponsor. descendants, Bill and I believe the Brampton, Ontario L6Z 3C5 Ebenezer Orphanage Home tion supports various local charities principles the Fund was founded on Shivani, a little girl from Fitera Village 905-840-3390 provides free education, clothing, and causes of wider concern within in 1990 are just as important today. [email protected] in District (southeast of Ratlam) shelter and food for orphaned and the world, particularly in support of It all started here. and her family are Hindu and of the destitute children. Children also society’s most disadvantaged people. benefit from vocational training Bhil/Adivasi tribal peoples (aboriginal In 2008, my wife Linda and I began people of Central India) and of the health greatly improved. In 2010, Sarina and William Bayer and participate in activities to develop an attitude of responsibil- attending Fort Massey and I quickly spoke with Regan during their visit to Continued on page 4

A Legacy of became involved in the Outreach At age 18, Regan finished grade 12 Ratlam. Regan has a very positive ity and self-reliance. Committee. Due to my connection and went on to attend technical outlook on life and he credits much of Success FAST FACTS with the Central Indian city of Ratlam school. After completing his his success to support provided by his and its church, I actively promoted by Bill Bayer training, Regan was hired as an sponsors through the Mina Fund. the raising of funds to buy a piece of electrician by a company in As a child, an orphan boy named equipment for the Ratlam Christian Ratlam. Regan sufferedfrom rheumatic $393.72 Hospital. Through the assistance of fever, which caused swelling and Approximate tax credit you’ll To show his gratitude for Sarina and William Bayer and the serious damage to his heart valves. receive for a $1,000 Mina Fund the support of his sponsors, Mina Fund, we sent the monies to Dr. By age 16, Regan was suffering donation (provincial credits vary). Regan decided to perform Patience Williams (sister of my from fatigue, chest pain and all electrical work required boyhood friend, H. H. Williams, now difficulty breathing. by the Ratlam Boys of Ludhiana in the Punjab). Christian Hostel, with no With support from a Mina Fund 104.6% In late 2011, I thought of involving our charges for his labour. sponsor, Regan and an attendant Every penny counts at the Mina Sunday School in the support of a were sent from Ratlam to the Sai Fund! Last year, program spending child at Ratlam Christian Mission Regan developed close Baba Hospital in Bangalore, where exceeded income from donations School. After the church Session and friendships with the surgery was performed to repair by 4.6%. Please consider increasing Sunday School approved this idea, I children he grew up with the damage to his heart. Following your level of support to address presented detailed information to and still keeps in touch with this successful surgery, Regan’s Sarina Bayer visiting children inflation! the congregation about the school in them today. supported by The Mina Fund.

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