AFRICAN CRAFT FUNDRAISING IN BOSTON

Throughout the year, the Boston Chapter of WFWP sells African crafts to raise money to send to the Schools of Africa Project. Where did the goods come from? Mrs. Phyllis Loum, a long-time very active member of WFWP in Boston had a business importing and selling African goods.

In 2008, Phyllis passed into the spirit world and her husband, Souleman, who is from Senegal, decided to donate seven huge trunks of African goods to WFWP in honor of his wife and to help the Schools of Africa Project.

So Mrs. Peggy Brewster and the Boston Chapter began selling the goods from Africa to raise funds to support the WFWP Schools in Africa. They sell the goods after their local church services as well as at flea markets, and all the money from these sales goes to Africa.

In 2013, however, because of the devastation caused by the huge storm in the Philippines, most of the fundraising done by Boston WFWP went in another direction to provide disaster relief to the Philippines. According to Mrs. Brewster, "There are a number of Philippine members in New England, and our hearts went out to the members there. People have been very generous and the Boston chapter was able to send more than $2,000 plus some supplies to the Philippines. The next project will be to collect summer clothes to send. Ms. Song Ja Ono had spent time in the Philippines and even though she is dealing with her own serious health problems, she was really the prime mover in this effort."