Monday, August 24, 2015

Mekizodesigns by interior surfaces, gives back to Nepal.

The Pavilion by Southwest Properties 
These young ladies are from Nepal joined by
their father.

Zulkamoon played so well, really an amazing band!

Baskets from Moksha Yoga Bedford, Trinity Jewellers, Coco by Andrea, Keikaikoa designs
donated for Nepal.

 Seabright Spa, Terrariums by Keikaikoa and
St Margaret's bay Chiropractic clinic,
gives back.

Manoz Pandey Portaits, a charity worker and a photographer from Nepal
was well received.

Richard and Melanie M of interior surfaces
makes a touching speech 

A special thanks to the "volunteers" for this event who donated
their Friday night to this event. You were all so caring and generous with your smiles!

Mekizodesigns area rugs are hand knotted in Nepal, Kathmandu. We have known this company for 12 years and work closely with a second generation factory. This particular company has 70 workers that have their individual expertise, weavers, dyers, and labourers that dry and finish the rugs before it is shipped to North America and abroad. They were all safe working at the factory when the earthquake happened. Feeling the quake they all rushed back to their villages. Devastated with the roads all torn up, they found their homes flattened by the quake and worse some families had no one to return to. Some had to find them under the rubble and grieve for their, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons, daughters and often the whole family that they support. So no homes, no water, no food.
 How would you like to go to bed one day in your Egyptian cotton sheets and wake up alone or even to dig yourself out of your bedroom and to emerge on the top to find your whole neighbourhood decimated? Well you might not ever have the chance to feel or to experience such a devastation,  so please be grateful, be kind to one another. You are living a privileged life here in Canada, so even just to offer a smile of  kindness to a stranger is generosity enough. 

We are so grateful that small little Halifax has a big heart and we cannot thank you enough for making "Nepal Fundraiser" an event to remember. Thank you to the local designers,  www.dwdinteriors.com  and  www.jonathanlegate.com  who attended and donated to the event.

Special thank you to Krista Corcoran for her gorgeous photographs and for finding volunteers that care about the people of Nepal. 
 I would also like to say that I am so grateful to "the ruggist" Michael Christie, www.theruggist.com making an appearance to support this worthy cause. To Morgan Allaway and Lindsay Downie from Southwest Properties, www.pavilionsouthpark.ca for hosting "Help Build Nepal"
I do not even have words to say to Tamira, Barry McGillivray their son Sam of Centurion Mechanical East Coast Ltd, thank you for your donation and support to the families and children of our weavers. To Bishop Cellar and their staff who smiled and offered their knowledge and expertise with their wine selection, a big thank you!
Acadian Fish and Chips, you were so generous with your Haddock tips, I reach out to you Evelyn and your family and staff I wanna give you guys big hugs!!! 
Andrew of www.arnoldinformwork.ca and Trisha from www.yogawithtricia.ca Thank you for coming out and we are so grateful for your support and donation. Thank you again to our friends and families who were there just to give us a hug! Thanks to all the tweets and the shares....