Current Events
Annual Art for Hope Fundraiser
This Thursday!! Come enjoy happy hour ALL NIGHT by the beach and some amazing, unique art work and products. We will be hosting the event at Poseidon Restaurant in Del Mar. This fundraiser will support our global efforts to keep a school open that we built in Sierra Leone 3 years ago. Many children are just now able to return to school after the long-lasting Ebola quarantines in August 2014'. In addition, this fundraiser will be supporting local artists and young entrepreneurs dreams to expand their businesses.
We Hope to see you there and thank you for continuing to support all our endeavors.
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Health and Beauty Fundraiser
Reach your new Years resolution goals with the help of exclusive brand name products. Features: Free health and skin assessments Skincare Tips and Demos By Certified Skin Analyst Certified Organic Nutrition Products Valentine’s Day gift Ideas!!! Energy that will get you through the quarter successfully Quality personal use set Raffle! Date: Sunday, January 25, 2015 Time: 1-5 pm Location: Building PC West, Red Shoe Room The Community Hope Project
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Community Hope Project Hosts Screening of Award Winning Documentary: From The Mara Soil
Come explore the film From the Mara Soil, which gives insight of the daily struggles in Tanzania that we take for granted. This documentary provides simple, cheap, clean, and effective solutions to empower the inhabitants that have become to dependent on their government for sustenance. In coming you will hopefully gain an awareness of what you actions you can take to promote social justice. Afterwards join in on an open discussion after the film with Urban Studies and Planning and Anthropology Professor, Dr. Leslie R Lewis.
Dinner will be catered by the amazing Food Co-Op!
Raffle prizes include: Gift cards from Sprinkles Cupcakes, Tap Ex, Board and Brew Del Mar, and much more!
Location: Forum Meeting Room, PC 4th floor
RSVP on Facebook
CHP has teamed up with local artists for Art for Hope!
Local art will be showcased at Art for Hope on Thursday, December 19th at Poseidon Restaurant in Del Mar. We will also be selling gara (dyed fabric) and other traditional Sierra Leonean crafts. Enjoy food, drink, the San Diego sunset, and live music. 50% of the art proceeds will go towards community development initiatives in Hill Cut.
When: Thursday, December 19, 2013 @ 5pm-8pm (It's happy hour!)
Where: Poseidon Restaurant
670 Coast Blvd Del Mar, California 92014
Local art will be showcased at Art for Hope on Thursday, December 19th at Poseidon Restaurant in Del Mar. We will also be selling gara (dyed fabric) and other traditional Sierra Leonean crafts. Enjoy food, drink, the San Diego sunset, and live music. 50% of the art proceeds will go towards community development initiatives in Hill Cut.
When: Thursday, December 19, 2013 @ 5pm-8pm (It's happy hour!)
Where: Poseidon Restaurant
670 Coast Blvd Del Mar, California 92014
Huge end-of-the-school-year
Yard Sale & Fundraiser
It is the end-of-the-school year at UC San Diego which means TREASURES for you!
100% of our yard sale proceeds will go towards Hill Cut's community development initiatives.
When: Saturday, June 29 @ 7AM-Noon
Where: Mesa Housing on Regents and La Jolla Village Drive
100% of our yard sale proceeds will go towards Hill Cut's community development initiatives.
When: Saturday, June 29 @ 7AM-Noon
Where: Mesa Housing on Regents and La Jolla Village Drive
Community Hope Project Hosts Screening About the Power of Forgiveness
May 2, 2013 @ 6PM
UC San Diego Price Center East Forum
Fambul Tok is an award-winning documentary film about the power of forgiveness. Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are building sustainable peace at the grass-roots level – succeeding where the international community’s post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with lessons for the West, this film explores the depths of a culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals – and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities.
UC San Diego Price Center East Forum
Fambul Tok is an award-winning documentary film about the power of forgiveness. Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies. Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are building sustainable peace at the grass-roots level – succeeding where the international community’s post-conflict efforts failed. Filled with lessons for the West, this film explores the depths of a culture that believes that true justice lies in redemption and healing for individuals – and that forgiveness is the surest path to restoring dignity and building strong communities.
New Roots Community Farm Work Day
We are partnering with the International Rescue Committee of San Diego, a refugee resettlement agency, on a Volunteer Work Day at New Roots Community Farm.
The New Roots Community Farm provides growing spaces for 85 families in the heart of the City Heights neighborhood. Many of the participants were farmers in the home country and this is their first opportunity to reconnect with the land in the United States, as well as double their family’s food security and nutrition access.
When: March TBA, 9-Noon
Where: New Roots Community Farm in City Heights
What to bring: Closed toe shoes, weather appropriate clothing, gloves, water bottle, gardening tools, and a snack.
The New Roots Community Farm provides growing spaces for 85 families in the heart of the City Heights neighborhood. Many of the participants were farmers in the home country and this is their first opportunity to reconnect with the land in the United States, as well as double their family’s food security and nutrition access.
When: March TBA, 9-Noon
Where: New Roots Community Farm in City Heights
What to bring: Closed toe shoes, weather appropriate clothing, gloves, water bottle, gardening tools, and a snack.
Yoga For Hope
Nothing is better than some morning yoga in the park coupled with free free snacks. So take a break, bring a yoga mat/towel, and join us our first Yoga for Hope!
Donations are more than welcome!
And, of course, thank you to our instructor, Leslie Burger!
When: Saturday, November 16, 2013 @ 10:30am-11:30am
Where: Park near Genesse Highlands Association
8008 Camino Jonata, San Diego, CA 92122
RSVP on Facebook
Triton 5k - Racing for the future!
Since it was established in 1996, the Triton 5K (formerly the Chancellor's
Challenge 5K Run/Walk for Scholars) has raised more than $3 million, benefiting
over 900 motivated and ambitious students with scholarship support.
This year on Saturday June 8th, the student organization with the largest team will be rewarded $500. CHP is partnering with our fast friends from Strides Running Club to make this happen, so please show your support for Community Hope Project by joining team "Strides Running Club."
Register by May 31: https://act.ucsd.edu/five-k/.
Challenge 5K Run/Walk for Scholars) has raised more than $3 million, benefiting
over 900 motivated and ambitious students with scholarship support.
This year on Saturday June 8th, the student organization with the largest team will be rewarded $500. CHP is partnering with our fast friends from Strides Running Club to make this happen, so please show your support for Community Hope Project by joining team "Strides Running Club."
Register by May 31: https://act.ucsd.edu/five-k/.
Art 4 Africa and Happy Hour at Poseidon Del Mar
The Community Hope Project is teaming up with local artists in San Diego at
Poseidon Restaurant in Del Mar, CA on Thursday, February 28th 5-8PM.
50% of the art proceeds will go towards our sustainable development efforts.
Check out our Facebook page.
Holiday Giving Campaign
December 2012
Dear Community Member and Fellow Global Citizen,
Small acts of connection and compassion can have profound effects. We are reaching out to you and other community businesses, organizations, foundations, and friends to help support a project that is transforming lives. The work of the Community Hope Project (CHP) is both local and international; we believe that efforts to promote health, hope, peace, justice and opportunity across the world have to take place in multiple locations. They must tap into the energy, experience, and diverse resources of people from all over the world.
The work of the CHP focuses on three areas:
The CHP fosters connections between kids, adults, and elders in the U.S. with counterparts in other parts of the world. These relationships, which foster perspective, cross-cultural understanding, empathy, and global awareness (among youth in particular), have numerous positive individual and societal “downstream” effects. Our first major partnership has been with the residents of Hill Cut, a small urban village in Sierra Leone. The whole project stemmed from a pen pal relationship between two sets of girls a half a world apart. It has grown into a wonderful, sustaining friendship and collaboration that has transformed a whole community, and changed us all.
CHP partners with communities to build physical infrastructure (schools, community centers and gardens, mini health clinics, etc.). We bring start-up resources (donations, microloans, educational scholarships), the energy and enthusiasm of international volunteers, and combine them with the sweat equity, expertise, strategies, and materials of local community members.
CHP invests and commits long term to the development and dignity of whole communities and their individual members. We build and nourish relationships, scaffold and support local social entrepreneurs, and create economic and educational opportunities that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable. In this way, we help foster local community cohesion, empowerment, and innovation. At the same time, we ourselves, and the local youth with whom we work, gain knowledge & wisdom, experience delight, and feel a deep, gratifying sense of being a part of something grand and transformative.
Please consider donating to the Community Hope Project this holiday season. 100% of your proceeds support our global grassroots project.
With appreciation and love,
Community Hope Project
Dear Community Member and Fellow Global Citizen,
Small acts of connection and compassion can have profound effects. We are reaching out to you and other community businesses, organizations, foundations, and friends to help support a project that is transforming lives. The work of the Community Hope Project (CHP) is both local and international; we believe that efforts to promote health, hope, peace, justice and opportunity across the world have to take place in multiple locations. They must tap into the energy, experience, and diverse resources of people from all over the world.
The work of the CHP focuses on three areas:
The CHP fosters connections between kids, adults, and elders in the U.S. with counterparts in other parts of the world. These relationships, which foster perspective, cross-cultural understanding, empathy, and global awareness (among youth in particular), have numerous positive individual and societal “downstream” effects. Our first major partnership has been with the residents of Hill Cut, a small urban village in Sierra Leone. The whole project stemmed from a pen pal relationship between two sets of girls a half a world apart. It has grown into a wonderful, sustaining friendship and collaboration that has transformed a whole community, and changed us all.
CHP partners with communities to build physical infrastructure (schools, community centers and gardens, mini health clinics, etc.). We bring start-up resources (donations, microloans, educational scholarships), the energy and enthusiasm of international volunteers, and combine them with the sweat equity, expertise, strategies, and materials of local community members.
CHP invests and commits long term to the development and dignity of whole communities and their individual members. We build and nourish relationships, scaffold and support local social entrepreneurs, and create economic and educational opportunities that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable. In this way, we help foster local community cohesion, empowerment, and innovation. At the same time, we ourselves, and the local youth with whom we work, gain knowledge & wisdom, experience delight, and feel a deep, gratifying sense of being a part of something grand and transformative.
Please consider donating to the Community Hope Project this holiday season. 100% of your proceeds support our global grassroots project.
With appreciation and love,
Community Hope Project
