With apologies for the lack of updates recently, here’s some news about our latest fund-raising event.

To raise funds jointly for GCP and Life Association India we put on our second garden party and barbecue on Sunday 8th of July.

All we really need now is people...

Our good friends Dave and Bee are heading out to India later this year to work with Life Association and it seemed too good an opportunity to miss, combining these great causes and mixing the cultures to put on a great summer event – we hadn’t heard of “Braz-Indian” before, but we think it has a good ring to it!

Despite Britain having pretty much the worst summer on record, with a month of rain in a day on more than one occasion, we were blessed with sunshine all the day from before setting up to after we finished – amazing.

The attractions included…

The repeat of our fantastic barbecue with possibly more meat than I’ve seen in one place before…

The Barbecue

Dalit candles and lights, cards, cakes, cupcakes, jams, marmalade, bunting and more to buy…

Cupcakes and candles

Then we had our hook-a-duck again…

Hook-a-duck

Plus guess the weight of the cake and the number of sweets in the jar, the bouncy castle, face painting…

Face Painting

…and best of all, over 70 of the nicest people you could ever want to meet!

The result was a lot of fun, great community spirit and a total of over £650 raised for the Genesis Community Project and Dave and Bee’s work for Life Association India – well done to you all!

Many thanks go to more people than we can list, but especially Chris and Sandra for the use of their garden, Charli for the cakes, Nigel for the bouncy castle and Bernie, Phil, Gill, Hilary, Dave, Bee, Sheila, John and Fiona for organising everything.  Apologies if I’ve left anyone out – it was really such a team effort.

Washington Pires

Be one of the lucky 120 people to join us for a special evening of Celebration and Fundraising at the first…
Baraka Brazilian Ball!

Flyer for the Ball

The Baraka Brazilian Ball is raising money for the Genesis Community Project. Working in Partnership with our friends living in the Washington Pires favela/slum in the city of Ibirite in Brazil.

Get your glad rags on, Friday 7th October. 6:45pm-Midnight.
At the Thorpe Park Hotel events suite, Leeds 15 (map).

The evening includes a dazzling array of treats!
Drinks reception, 3 course meal & coffee
Live music, Charity auction, Zumba, DJ & dancing, prizes and more!

Tickets are £35 and are available from Garforth Bookshop
or email ball@barakaonline.co.uk.

Also see Baraka’s website.