Where did my money go?

First, my apologies for not having posted since the Hunger Banquet. I have been out of town for a while and haven't had much blogging time. A lot of exciting stuff has been happened since the last post. Notably, we selected recipients of the funds we raised during the Hunger Banquet.

We would like to congratulate the following projects, that have been approved by both the Grantwell Committee and the at-large SID membership for funding from the Hunger Banquet:

1. HELP Uganda - Community Gardens and Income Generation Projects for Local Orphanages

2. Udayan Care - Nutritional support and psychiatric counseling for children of HIV/AIDS victims in India

3. Interweave Zimbabwe - Literacy and empowerment projects determined and run by locals.

4. Care for Life (Mozambique) - Material purchases for the construction of community learning centers and incentives for goal-setting programs.

5. Courage to Hope (Romania) - Support for evaluation materials to assess needs in shelters for abused women and girls.

6. Ouelessebougou Alliance (Mali) - Support for quantitative evaluation program and data sharing between village development workers.

We'd like to thank all of those who volunteered, attended and helped to make the Hunger Banquet such a grand success. We have carefully selected these projects that we feel reflect our core SID values of participation, evaluation, transparency and impact.

Please thank your roommates and friends who attended the banquet, and let them know where the money went!