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Wine Tasting Fundraiser in Shanghai!

Apr 3rd, 2009 by tomstader

The Toastmasters Leadership Club held an amazing wine tasting fundraiser in Shanghai on March 19, 2009. Over 40 people came out to raise funds to provide the Shi Chuan Gou Elementary School with a library, learn about wine, and meet new friends. 4,715 RMB was raised through ticket sales, cash donations, and wine auction. Thank you!

Everyone at The Library Project would like to give a very special THANK YOU to Leslie Lin for organizing the event, her support was amazing. Thank you Denis for your great presentation on the four wines, it really helped to make the evening a complete success. A huge thank you goes out to the Toastmasters Leadership Club especially Rayling and Andrew for helping to make the evening so special. Thank you Mira for the flyer design, it really helped to make the fundraiser such a success! We would also like to thank everyone that came out for the event. Your support helped provide a beautiful library for the students of Shi Chuan Gou Elementary School. Thank you!

ABOUT THE SHI CHUAN GOU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The Shi Chuan Gou Elementary School is located in Lantian County in the Shaanxi Province. There are 20 students that attend grades 1-2 at this very special elementary schools. The Library Project will be providing 500 Chinese language children’s books, two brightly colored bookshelves, a globe and plants for their school Reading Corner. We will also be providing colorful paint for their old desks and stools, and white paint for their classroom’s walls. The parents and local community will be picking up the brushes to paint the school. The Shi Chuan Gou Elementary School library donation will be completed in May 2009.

The Library Project will provide a wide range of children’s books that include: history, science, short stories, fairy tales, books for very young readers, children’s dictionaries, children’s reference books, and an assortment of comic books. Shi Chuan Gou Elementary School will also receives a full set of children’s encyclopedias. Every book is in full color and of the highest quality.

To learn more about the Shi Chuan Gou Elementary School, please click on this link: http://www.library-project.org/proposals/shi_chuan_gou.html

ABOUT TOASTMASTERS LEADERSHIP CLUB

The Toastmasters Leadership Club is a Shanghai chapter of Toastmasters International. The mission of this club is to support the cultivation of leaders who inspire positive changes in themselves and others for the betterment of society. They were established on March 1st 2006 and chartered in Toastmasters International on July 20th 2006. The club has over 30 members from all walks of life with a diverse cultural and ethnical background. To learn more about the Toastmasters Leadership Club, please check out their website at: http://shleadership.freetoasthost.info/index.html

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