AKEN thanks its donors! Estonian Life
This year, the AKEN women opted to mark Estonia’s centenary year not with their usual Giant Rummage Sale (aka HIIGELBASAAR), but instead with a Giant Esto Boutique. AKEN’s ‘BLUE-BLACK-WHITE” sales event, on May 5th at Toronto Estonian House featured a plethora of multi-faceted, Estonian-themed items from Estonian folk costumes to Estonian-language books.
The AKEN committee extends a heartfelt ”thank you” to every single donor, who took the time and the trouble to comb through their closets, shelves and cupboards in search of Estonian-themed items to donate to this year’s special EV100 celebratory sales event. It is gratifying to know that there are so many generous donors in our community who appear to live by the credo: “It is better to give than to receive” - donors who know that by giving to AKEN, they also give to the community.
It is this same need and desire to give and to help others that propelled AKEN women to begin their fundraising activities way back in 1990. For 28 years, the AKEN organizing committee has been on the receiving end of an incredible abundance of sellable items from the Estonian community, an abundance which, year after year, they miraculously transformed into an abundance of “cash”. And every year, after each sale, the spirit of giving kicked in and the distribution of the fruits of their hard work became a labour of love for the AKEN women.
And speaking of the spirit of giving, at this time the AKEN committee is pleased to announce that a generous benefactor has remembered AKEN in her testament. Although the benefactor herself has passed from this world, she has made arrangements to keep on giving through AKEN.
Thanks to this kind-hearted benefactor, whose wish was to remain anonymous, AKEN has been able to make larger than usual donations (totalling $100,000.00) to the following applicants, who have requested funding support from AKEN: Estonian Children’s Camp Jõekääru, Estonian Documentary Film Festival (EstDocs), Estonian University of the Forest (Metsaülikool), Estonian Children’s Camp (Seedrioru), Toronto Estonian Kindergarten (TES Lasteaed), Toronto Estonian Supplementary Schools (TES Täienduskoolid), Estonian Children’s Volleyball Camp (JK Kalev), Estonian Canadian Scout Troop Põhjarada Building Fund, Estonian Folkdancing Troop Kungla.
AKEN’s benefactor would, no doubt, be pleased with the gift that AKEN has made on her behalf to our local Estonian community, a gift that can also be considered as a 100th anniversary ”kingitus” to our beloved homeland.
On behalf of the AKEN committee….Ellen Leivat
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