fundraising

Calling All Belizeans Near and Far: Let’s Show the Lowe Family Our Support 06-07-12

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Jasmine Lowe

Barton Creek Outpost Belize is organizing a fund raising effort  to help Jasmine’s family at this time of great despair and need.

Chris and Jasmin Lowe worked the peanut butter/granola business together. She was an important part of that operation. We are taking a collection to help take the pressure off of Chris to get straight back to work. We will shortly announce a San Ignacio drop off point for funds. Additionally we will receive Paypal and credit card donations through our Paypal account. If you have paypal you can send your donation to belizebritts@yahoo.com. If you want to make a donation otherwise please contact us and we will send you a paypal invoice that you can pay with a credit/debit card. Any amount at all will be helpful. If you want to do something, this is it.

Donations to help Chris Lowe through this time can be made at the Pacz Tours office on Burns Ave. We can also receive your donations via credit/debit card or Paypal account. Please contact us if you wish to help in that manner. This is something significant, something real, we can do. Let’s come together.

-Reprinted from Barton Creek Outpost Belize Facebook Page

The Community Reaches Out to Jasmine Lowe’s Family 06-06-12

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ImageBarton Creek Outpost Belize is organizing a fund raising effort  to help Jasmine’s family at this time of great despair and need.

Chris and Jasmin Lowe worked the peanut butter/granola business together. She was an important part of that operation. We are taking a collection to help take the pressure off of Chris to get straight back to work. We will shortly announce a San Ignacio drop off point for funds. Additionally we will receive Paypal and credit card donations through our Paypal account. If you have paypal you can send your donation to belizebritts@yahoo.com. If you want to make a donation otherwise please contact us and we will send you a paypal invoice that you can pay with a credit/debit card. Any amount at all will be helpful. If you want to do something, this is it.

Donations to help Chris Lowe through this time can be made at the Pacz Tours office on Burns Ave. We can also receive your donations via credit/debit card or Paypal account. Please contact us if you wish to help in that manner. This is something significant, something real, we can do. Let’s come together.

-Reprinted from Barton Creek Outpost Belize Facebook Page

Hellerrrrrr! 05-12-12

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The First Lady of Belize, Mrs. Kim Simplis Barrow

We have yet to hit or beat the number 317 which was our highest umber of views in a single day for the article on Kim Simplis 02-04-12 and it was a SATURDAY!!!! LOL We have come very close but just can’t beat it! We  want to thank everyone who keeps following and spreading the birdflew by sharing our articles on your walls and tagging your friends. We are well on our way to hitting 15,000 hits in the next week and that is all YOU!!!!!

THANK YOU 🙂

We continue to work on spreading awareness about cancer in our country and highlight ways we can all chip in to help. Some articles to check out and pass around: Please contribute to the cancer fund we are collaborating on with Kim Black and support Raquel in getting BEAT Cancer up and running. She has dedicated quite a lot of time and resources to help those in need.

https://twocanview.com/2012/02/04/in-the-face-of-adversity-beauty-poise-and-desire-to-educate-and-serve-by-fayemarie-anderson-carter/

https://twocanview.com/2012/05/09/buy-a-beanie-and-support-breast-cancer-awareness-kim-for-kim/

https://twocanview.com/2012/05/10/kimberly-christine-longsworth-black-featured-artist-05-10-12/

https://twocanview.com/2012/04/02/raquel-battle-battles-on-by-fayemarie-a-carter/

Kimberly Christine Longsworth Black: Featured Artist 05-10-12

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Kimberly modeling an adult hat.

I have known Kimberly or Kimmy, KC (as I used to call her) since she was born. That’s ’cause she is the daughter of one of my favourite boy cousins Charles 🙂 Yes…I crushed haaaaard on him. Her parents, Charles Longsworth and Lisa Williams Longsworth Macias got married in Belize City, late one Friday evening and somewhere in some dusty old file cabinet is my signature as a witness on their marriage certificate. It is no wonder that Kimberly would become artistic when she grew up. Her “home” was Mom’s Triangle Inn on Handyside St., Belize City. Her pets were kitties and snakes (yes, snakes) with names like Whiskey and Brandy. Funny enough, both her grandmothers made their living by owning eateries. Elma’s has been in Belmopan since I could remember traveling on the bus. I couldn’t wait to jump off and grab a meat pie and ice cream from Auntie Elm’s. As a matter of fact, when I went to Belmopan this past March, I went and got my meatpies and the last conch fritter left. (Thanks Melito Zabaneh for letting me have it :))

I used to race home from SJC Sixth Form for lunch at Mom’s. Kimmy loved ice and fries so by the end of lunch, that high chair was a delish sloppy mess of dripping ketchup. Then I would put her in the sink and wash her off and get her ready for her noon nap…everyday like clock work. One of her favourite things to do was put her mouth right over the faucet and drink the water out of the tap 🙂 Well now Kimmy is a wife and mother of two adorable boys. She lives in California and has launched a charming business called KCB Custom Crochet.

Kimberly credits her grandma Elma Onofre for teaching her a basic chain when she was 7. I received a similar lesson from my grandmother Dorothy Longsworth too. But unlike me, Kimmy was very excited by this particular form of making clothes so she persisted and got her grandma to teach her much more than  basic techniques. At just 20, she has created her own business making the most adorable hats for babies and adults. I bought quite a few as Christmas gifts last year and everyone loved them. I asked her what inspires her everyday ans she said “My sons.” And I believe it! You should see the cute dragon hats she made for them!

One day I was brainstorming ways of spreading breast cancer awareness in support of our First Lady, Kim Simplis Barrow as well as my friend Raquel Battle, President and Founder of  The BlissfulSage Foundation http://www.blissfulsage.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1 when a little ding sounded. Why not ask Kimmy to make some pink hats that people could absolutely love wearing or giving as gifts AND still be promoting awareness at the same time????

SOoooooo, one month later, Twocanview and KCB Custom Crochet are launching an effort to raise funds and turn the spotlight on the fight against the devastation that breast cancer visits upon its victims and their families. https://twocanview.com/2012/05/09/buy-a-beanie-and-support-breast-cancer-awareness-kim-for-kim/  For every hat she sells, she will donate $5 in Kim Simplis Barrow’s name to the Belize Cancer Center Dangriga. We encourage everyone to please join us in this effort and if you just want to donate $$$ without making a purchase, please do! One one okra full up basket!!!!! Here’s an idea: those involved in fundraisers, buy a bunch of these to give away to your supporters!!!!

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.355307514529895.79321.162552987138683&type=3

Please check out her other hats for sale too! They are soooooo kiuuuute! And if you have something specific you want her to design for you, she loves to collaborate with her clients on those kinds of projects. Just a thought: give out some beanies as favours at your toddler’s next birthday party. Can you imagine a bunch of lil dragons running around? or kitty cats? awwwwwwww…..She also makes purses and hair accessories. https://www.facebook.com/pages/KCB-Custom-Crochet/162552987138683

Dragon hats Kim made for her sons.