Lenten Campaign + Friendship Bracelets
Last year, we had a tremendous amount of participation in our 4,000 Raindrops Campaign to raise $4,000 in 40 days during Lent to help the orphanage build a well. This year, our campaign is going to be even more engaging, fun and colorful! Let us introduce our "Friendship Bracelet Campaign" which will launch during Lent. During this campaign, people can purchase friendship bracelet kits from us and then make and sell friendship bracelets and donate the money back to the orphanage! There will be various designs for different age groups and also a spiritual component to incorporate our Orthodox faith into this project. We welcome anyone who wants to get involved! Churches, youth groups, young adults, book clubs, bloggers and just about anyone who wants to give back! If you'd like to join our planning committee to help us lead this effort, please email christiana@theluckygirlsmovie.com
Photo taken from here.
Metropolitan Nikitas
On Sunday, our team members, Christiana Thanos and Stefanos Roulakis, joined His Eminence, Metropolitan Nikitas for brunch to discuss the future of the orphanage and Lucky Girls. Metropolitan Nikitas once oversaw all missions and churches in Southeast Asia, including the orphanage. The girls at the orphanage miss him dearly, and they fondly remember him teaching them the hokey pokey! His Eminence now directs the Patriarch Athenagora Orthodox Institute in Berkeley, California. Our director, Christiana Thanos originally learned about the work in India through Metropolitan Nikitas when he came to speak at St. Sophia Cathedral in 2004. Since then, they have been sharing ideas and efforts on how to best help the orphanage. In our meeting, His Eminence expressed his interest in continuing to support Lucky Girls' endeavors to help the orphanage. We are so grateful for his support!
Enter our Raffle
Thanks to a generous donor, you can donate $10 to the orphanage and enter to win a trip to Florida for New Years!
Win a one week stay in a luxury villa at the Weston Vacation Village in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida + $400 spending cash! The villa accomodates four, and the available dates are December 30 2011-January 6, 2012.
All donations of $10 or more to the Theotokos Girl's Orphanage from now until Thanksgiving will go towards the raffle. You will receive an email after you donate to ensure that you are entered into the raffle.
Please donate here: www.theluckygirlsmovie.com For questions, email christiana@theluckygirlsmovie.com
United Nations Association Film Festival
It looks like the folks at the United Nations Assocation like the work being done at the Theotokos Girl's Orphanage and will be screening Lucky Girls at their Los Angeles film festival! We are so excited to be a part of such an important screening and film line-up! We hope you can join us!
When: Monday, October 24 2011, 6:30-11:30 PM. VIP pre-reception 5:00 PM
Where: Laemmle Pasadena, 673 East Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91101
Price: Individual tickets-$25. Students-$10. VIP reception + ticket-$50. Purchase tickets: www.unapasadena.org
For additional information, contact us: christiana@theluckygirlsmovie.com
Getting Married & Giving Back
Last month, a lovely young couple named Nick and Roula were married in Chicago. While most couples give away a small gift or wedding favor to their wedding guests, Nick and Roula decided to give back to the Theotokos Orphanage and one other charity. For each guest, they donated $3!
We got creative and made classy little note cards to place on each place setting to inform guests that a donation was made to the orphanage in their honor. We also provided a tiny paragraph about Lucky Girls and the orphanage.
We thank Nick and Roula for their generous donation to the orphanage. We wish them a long life together filled with love and happiness! Thank you for remembering our girls on such an important day in your lives!
Chrysanthi's Blog
We are happy to be featured on Chrysanthi Diamantakou's fashion blog! Chrysanthi writes about our Sophia Forero necklaces to benefit the orphanage.
Chrysanthi is a blogger and contributing writer for anything in fashion, beauty, entertainment, arts and especially Greek related. Check it out! http://chrysanthid.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Chrysanthi!
Nailpolish
We are excited to announce the new 'Lucky Girls' signature nailpolish color by Lex Cosmetics! With each bottle purchased, $3 will be donated to the Theotokos Orphanage! This can help support one girl for a day! Lucky Girls is featured on the landing page of their website as shown below! To purchase nailpolish, please visit http://lexcosmetics.com/
Thanks to volunteer, April Pierce for the featured photo!
One Girl Can Change The World
We just heard about this amazing song by Shuree called One Girl (Can Change the World) and we love it! Thanks, Shuree, for making such a meaningful song to inspire us and keep our focus on what is important!
First Online Auction
We've been brewing the idea of starting an online auction page to allow people to donate items to benefit the orphanage. Thanks to a sweet lady in San Jose and our very favorite volunteer, Maria Koo, we were given these magnificent freshwater pearl earrings to auction off and try out our idea!
Info: Large freshwater pearls with a slight rose hue. Cubic zirconia exterior. Value: $100
Glam it up with your favorite summer dress or be casual with jeans and a tee-shirt!
Minimum bid starts at $50. To make a bid, email christiana@theluckygirlsmovie.com or make it directly on our Lucky Girls Facebook Page!
Let the bidding begin!
Thank You, from Sister Nectaria
Dear 4,000 Raindrops Donors & Friends,
I am happy to tell you that, thanks to the generosity of our supporters through your campaign, the well at the Theotokos Girls' Orphanage is completed and a big problem has been solved! We feel relieved and grateful to all our donors. May God bless you all! It took a little time as does everything in India-even the digging of an 850 ft well is hand-made!
I am running around these days to colleges for the admission of our 5 girls who have succeffuly passed their class XII Board examinations! Attached is a photo of the well being built. I will send a photo of the completed well soon.
Thank you all for your support!
~Sr. Nectaria~
