EasySundays turned “ChEasySundays” on the 14th of February for Valentine’s Day.

Thanks to everyone who came out! It was a record in terms of numbers – so much so that we ran out of food, but hey, we take this as a sign of success and will be ready with even more next time!

On the occasion of Valentine’s day,  all funds from this sweet and heartfelt brunch went to Cor Infantis to help children with severe heart problems. Having raised over 700EUR, both EasySundays and Cor Infantis would like to thank you again for your support! It was a great day

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About the charity… Cor Infantis (www.corinfantis.org)

The Cor Infantis Charity Foundation was created in 2007 by parents of children with critical heart defects. The charity aims to find solutions and support children who are waiting for surgery. The team’s work is 100% voluntary which means that all funds that they are able to raise go directly to the children. Thanks to donations from “friends”, up until now Cor Infantis has helped over 60 children.

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As our final EasySundays brunch of 2009, we would like to thank all who attended the brunch on December 13th at Art Base. All proceeds from the brunch went to our very first cause, Livres Papier Crayons (LPC) which provides schools supplies to children in Morroco.

It’s been an exciting year with quite a number of EasySundays events having rolled out between April and November. We ran our final brunch of the year, just in time for for the holiday season. Thanks to all who came out – especially those who’ve been supporting EasySundays since the start!

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The cause: Livres Papier Crayons (LPC)

All proceeds from the final 2009 brunch went to LPC which was the very first non-profit organisation that EasySundays supported earlier this year. The funds that we were able to collect during the first event were of great help to LPC and we were happy to be able to support them a second time.

To learn more about LPC, see the info from our first event.

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The venue: Art Base

The brunch took place at Art Base which organises concerts, workshops and exhibitions throughout the year. Following the EasySundays brunch, participants were welcome to join a Cuban dance workshop from 15.00-16.45 as well as a concert with Rey Cabrera at 17.00. Many thanks to Frans for all his help and support in giving us such a great venue!

After the great success of our wine-tasting event, we were very pleased to see so many people come to our follow-up brunch with Panos4Life at the Kokob restaurant

Having got back to our EasySundays brunches – but at the same time offering you something a little different – the brunch at the Kokob restaurant downtown on November 8th was a great mix of EasySundays treats, tasty Ethiopian dishes and a great ambiance for all!

EasySundays has put all proceeds from the wine tasting and brunch towards covering the salary of one of the school’s three teachers for a year. Many thanks again to all those who attended and were able to make this goal possible!

Panos4Life, the non-profit organisation which supports the kindergarten already in many ways, attended the brunch and gave a great overview of all the work that has been done so far at the school in Kenya. A BIG THANK YOU goes to Dioni Vardaka for her very interesting presentation and kind words.

About the school: in recognition of the importance of education as a mean of facing life difficulties, it was decided to fully finance the construction of a nursery school for 150 children in Mamboromokoni, Malindi, in Kenya, in association with the ‘Greek Committee for Education of Kenyan Youth’ active locally. Full construction of the three-class nursery was finalised in January 2009 and the school was inaugurated in April 2009.

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A big THANK YOU goes out to all who attended our first wine tasting event at Crush Wine on October 25th. We raised nearly enough money to pay for a year’s salary for one of the three teachers in the kindergarten in Maboromokoni, Kenya. Thanks to you, with the next event we will surely go above and beyond the support we will be able to offer the school.

more snapshots from the evening.

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This EasySundays initiative was possible thanks to Panos4Life

About the school: in recognition of the importance of education as a mean of facing life difficulties, it was decided to fully finance the construction of a nursery school for 150 children in Mamboromokoni, Malindi, in Kenya, in association with the ‘Greek Committee for Education of Kenyan Youth’ active locally. Full construction of the three-class nursery was finalised in January 2009 and the school will been inaugurated in April 2009.

In case you are interested in the wines that we had on offer, here they are:

2 whites:
Currabridge, unwooded
Crisp chardonnay, SE Australia

Hollick
Sauvingon blanc Semmillon
Coonawarra

2 reds:
Bremerton Mathilda Plains
Langhorne Creek
Cabernet Shiraz, S Australia

De Bortoli Deen Vat
Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra

Many thanks to Crush Wine www.crushwine.be for the venue, great wine and excellent hospitality. You were great and we’ll certainly be back for more!

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We’ve received news from our friends in Peru that construction on the school continues to go well! Thanks to the funds raised by EasySundays, they have been able to buy tubing for a drinkable water system.

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EasySundays held a brunch in May to support the construction of Peru’s very first Democratic school (see post from May 15th). A special thanks goes to our friends Stephane Chaudron and Marco Bertaglia for keeping us up to date on the latest activities.

Have a look at the latest news on Peru’s very first democratic school on the school’s blog:

http://escuela-democratica.blogspot.com/2009/08/nuestros-amigos-y-amigas-de-bruselas.html

On July 5th, the EasySundays team took part in Ixelles’s “Bouillon Malibran” street festival. Thanks to all who came out to support us throughout the day!

The aim of the festival was to celebrate food and culture and support the colourful life of the Rue Malibran area, just off Place Flagey.

We would like to thank everyone who came out to our May 10th brunch at La Maison de la Solidarité, in Ixelles. We were really lucky with the great weather and so happy that we had over 65 people attend. A record so far!

All proceeds from the brunch went to supporting the building of Peru’s very first democratic school. (What is a democratic school?)

A special thanks goes out to Stephane Chaudron and Marco for presenting the organisation in Peru. For those of you who would like to learn more about this democratic school and find out how you can help, have a look at the below PPT presentation, which includes all contact details.

A big THANK YOU to everyone who joined us at the launch of the first EasySundays fundraiser brunch on April 5th, 2009. We are pleased to announce that, in addition to having a great time with so many people, together we raised over 300 EUR for the non-profit organisation Livre Papier Crayon (LPC).

For those of you who are interested in learning more about LPC, have a look at the detailed presentation which Catherine Dib kindly gave us. You can also contact her directly.

We would also like to give a special thank you to the Ninjinski bookshop for giving us such a great venue to host the brunch. It was a such a pleasure to work with you and we hope that you’ll have us back again!

Have a look at some pics from the event:

Thanks again to everyone who came and we look forward to having you join us at our next event in May at La Maison de la Solidarité.