We are very pleased to announce that four Emily Sandall Camperships will be awarded this spring to campers going to YMCA Camp Menogyn.
I know that she would be so pleased to know that we have combined a scholarship to honor two of her greatest passions- the wilderness and community service. This years applicants are a sensational group.They sing of all of the good things-compassion, a love for Menogyn and the wilderness, kindness towards the disadvantaged and wonderful solid values.
They would make Emily proud.
We are honored to offer these camperships to such exemplary campers.
Emily’s dad, Paul, has also requested that the award winners write us a short paragraph after their trips to let us know how their Menogyn experience and their campership award might inspire their future interest in community service.
Four Emily Sandall camperships to be awarded at Camp Menogyn
Foundation awards scholarships for girls and microloans for women in Guatemala
This exciting program is set up as a collaboration between the Garden’s Edge and the Emily Sandall Foundation. Each year the Garden’s Edge will offer scholarships and microloans to women and girls in Guatemala in memory of Emily.
“The Garden’s Edge is honored to help the foundation carry on Emily’s legacy by helping Guatemalan girls continue their education and offering women economic opportunities through our microlending program.Scholarship recipients are girls between ages 13-21 from rural communities. We offer three major activities: school support,workshops and apprenticeships.As part of the scholarships the girls volunteer at our Guatemala association,or in their villages planting gardens and complete apprenticeships with local craftspeople.
Microloans support agriculture, animal husbandry,traditional arts,such as weaving textiles and basketry,pottery, gourd art and the construction of rain catchment tanks , which help the farmers extend their growing season. The micro-credit program has 92 members,70% women and a 100% repayment rate.”
quote by Sarah Montgomery, founder of Garden’s Edge and Qachuu Aloom in Guatemala
Vida Nueva(Pastora’s weaving co-op) makes purses for Camp Menogyn
Menogyn Purses made by the Vida Nueva Weaving Cooperative
With the help of a micro-loan from the Emily Sandall Foundation, the Vida Nueva Women’s Weaving Cooperative in Oaxaca Mexico made shoulder bags,coin purses and pencil holders for YMCA Camp Menogyn (a wilderness canoe camp in northern Minnesota). These bags, especially designed for Camp Menogyn, are made with organic dyes using traditional weaving techniques. Pastora, the founder of the weaving cooperative was a close friend of Emily’s. This project honors two places that were shaped by Emily’s presence and two places for which Emily cared deeply.
Written by Berit Engstrom, a dear friend of the Sandall family and a current YMCA Camp Menogyn guide
Wouldn’t Emily be so pleased by this partnership and project?! Thank you Berit for arranging and orchestrating this wonderful project.
Foundation Donates to CMPD in Missoula, MT
Emily’s Foundation donated to CMPD in Missoula, MT. Emily’s wonderful friend and African Dance teacher ,Tarn Ream, is a part of this organization.Wouldn’t Emily be pleased?
“CMPD will strive to make music-related activities – music learning, music making, composing, performing, and recording – accessible to children, teenagers, and adults with disabilities in the county of Missoula so that the vision of Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 of full inclusion of people with disabilities in the educational, social, and cultural life of the community can be transformed into a reality.”
“We teach music to 165 students with disabilities in Missoula County, Montana . We believe that music needs to be accessible to everyone regardless of ability levels and that the disabled derive special benefits from music making efforts.
Using nearly two decades of our experience, we have devised techniques of making music learning accessible to all who are interested. Also, we integrate music with other activities such as poetry reading, lyric writing, body movement, story telling, instrument crafting, acoustic experiments, etc. so that we can enrich the participant socially, culturally and recreationally. “
CMPD, Missoula
2012 Emily Sandall Foundation scholarships awarded to Guatemalan students
We are very pleased to announce that Emily’s Foundation has awarded 9 scholarships to students in Guatemala for their studies in partnership with Garden’s Edge and Qachoo Aloom.”Most scholarship students are from families with very limited economic resources. The students are very active and have the desire to excel academically.They also have the desire to help support their family and community.” Qachoo Aloom, Guatemala
This exciting program is being continued as a collaboration between the Garden’s Edge and the Emily Sandall Foundation. Each year the Garden’s Edge will offer scholarships in Guatemala in memory of Emily.
“The Garden’s Edge is honored to help the Foundation carry on Emily’s legacy by helping Guatemalan students continue their education. Scholarship recipients are usually girls between ages 13-21 from rural communities. We offer three major activities: school support,workshops and apprenticeships. As part of the scholarships the girls volunteer at our Guatemala association,or in their villages planting gardens and complete apprenticeships with local craftspeople.” Sarah Montgomery,Founder of Garden’s Edge