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Make it a Beautiful Day in Africa! Help Build a Well for Bono?s Birthday!

The African Well Fund will be collecting donations throughout the month of April to honor Bono's May 10th birthday. Last year, our efforts netted over $10,000. This year our goal is $15,000.

(PRWEB) March 29, 2004--The African Well Fund is pleased to announce our 2nd annual fundraising drive to ?Build a Well for Bono?s Birthday?. Bono?s birthday is May 10th. Throughout the month of April, we invite U2 fans to honor and acknowledge Bono?s activism on behalf of Africa by donating to the African Well Fund.

Last year?s fundraiser was a tremendous success. The U2 fan community responded generously to our call for donations and over $10,000 was raised. The money was used by our partner Africare, to fund the building of 14 wells in Uganda. To read the full report of the well-building project, please visit our website www.africanwellfund.org.

Based on the amazing response we received last year, we have set this year?s goal at $15,000. Incredibly, last year?s amount was contributed by approximately 300 donors, a relatively small number when considering the size of the U2 fan base. Once again, we will send Bono an acknowledgement of the funds raised in his honor as well as post birthday messages collected on our website. For further details go to http://africanwellfund.org/Bono-Well-2004.html .

This year, the money raised will be used for well projects in the country of Ethiopia. Africare has informed us of the present critical need there. 100% of your donation goes directly to Africare?s village water supply program. Africare is one of the leading private, non-profit charitable U.S. organizations assisting Africa. For more information please visit www.africare.org.

Please consider donating today. Your contribution joined with the donations of others can make a significant difference in the life of an entire African village. Just $100 each from 10 U2 fans would fund a well. There are thousands of us out there! Who knows how many wells we can build!

African Well Fund is a registered non-profit 501(c)3 organization founded by U2 fans dedicated to raising funds for building and maintaining wells in Africa.
 
I encourage EVERYONE here at Interference to get involved in this project!:yes:

In what better way can we remember Bono for his birthday than to contribute our time, money and positive energies to building water wells in Africa, thus ensuring clean water and a hope for the future for countless generations of those African communities where our wells(actuallly Bono's) wells are built?:up: :hug:

I KNOW the TREMENDOUS response that the AWF had last year in our Bono Birthday Well campaign REALLY BROUGHT HIM JOY! :bono: :angel:

LET"S DO ALL THAT WE CAN TO BUILD MORE WATER WELLS THIS YEAR TO SHOW OUR ETERNAL LOVE AND RESPECT FOR BONO!:heart:
 
I am happy to say that I donated last year, and I am planning on donating this year.

It would be a great help if every U2 fan who reads this to pass it on to other U2 fan emailings. Tell people in your group to help out, and then have them pass on the message, and so on.

DO IT AND PASS IT ON!

LET'S SHOW BONO THAT U2 FANS ARE THE BEST!!!
 
u2sangel said:
I am sure we can count on everyone here at Interference to help out this year:wink:


Hello Everyone. I will be taking care of all of that Allergra so don't worry about the emailing list. But if you have some friends and family that would like to help out that would be great also!

Thanks for Everyone's support!!
 
Tomorrow marks the 1/2 way point of the Bono Bday fundraiser.

If you haven't donated yet, there's still time!

We *hope* to update the "thermometer" on the site early next week so we can see how far we've got to go.

Thanks again for all of your support!

DONATE HERE
 
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Just an update for everyone. As of the 15th of April, the total so far for this months fundraiser is $4,369.24 and counting...

There's still time to donate so if you haven't yet and you're thinking about it there's no time like the present.

The goal is $15,000 so we need your help to make it!
 
I donated last year (and again this year) - but as a previous donor, I got a piece in the mail about this year's campaign and the progress they've made. Have to say it was very impressive - they've gone all professional-looking on us! Nice job!
 
AWF's printing are all donated by Print Tech in Wisconsin so you can thank them and groovcat's graphic design skills ( not sure if she's still on here?) for that fine printing job.
 
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