We haven't gotten ANY Mary Kay orders other than previous customers that wanted to help out! I just want to throw out there that Mary Kay isn't just about make up. I'm picky about mine and use specific brands. But I still order Mary Kay! Their eye make up remover is AMAZING! And I've heard wonderful things about their sunless tanner. So I will be buying that (skin cancer scares me, especially considering my ignorant teen and early 20's [pre-wedding] years when I fake baked, ahhh!!). They have lotions, bath stuff, ohhh so much!! So, check out the website! And ORDER! We get a HUGE percentage of the sales for this fundraiser!!
http://www.marykay.com/mgilchrist04
(http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Mandi-Gilchrist-Mary-Kay/320496594660914)
Now, we HAVE gotten orders for our CUPCAKE event already!! Woohooo!!! If you purchased last month, be sure to check out the Facebook Event page, because there have been some changes. Also, you get to see all the pictures there! The cupcakes are DELICIOUS, so be sure to order lots and lots! ;)
The Scentsy Fundraiser is still going, so be sure to check out the Fundraiser page to the right for that link and the info on EVERYTHING else.
There's also a brand new fundraiser in the works!! I don't want to spill the beans before it's all set in stone, but a lot of work has already been put into it and I'm SUPER excited about it!! One hint... it is going to be DELICIOUS!! :)
That's all the updates I have today I think.... Normally I'd go on with our story now. But not today. Our story is on hold while I talk about something else. Please continue reading below!
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Now, on to something that is very important to me today...
It is important to me TODAY because yesterday at this time, I didn't know who the heck Kony was. I seen some posts yesterday afternoon on Facebook, but didn't watch them. Well, Danny and I watched it last night before bed and I vowed to do ANYTHING to help. So, it is important to me today, and will be every day until that awful scumbag is caught and justice is served.
I can't go to Africa and help. I don't have a ton of money to spare while we are focusing on our own things. But we WILL be donating monthly to Tri. If you've seen the video and know all about it, and want to donate as well you can do so here:
https://www.stayclassy.org/checkout/donation?eid=14711
If you donate $15 monthly, you'll get a free action kit. It's worth it and is what we will be doing!
Now, if you don't know about Kony and haven't watched the YouTube video, I will tell you a little about it.
First of all, I know a lot of people from other countries think that the US butt in too much and too often and it's not necessary. I'm not going to get into that, but I will say that it is ABSOLUTELY necessary that we butt in with this. It is absolutely atrocious what is going on. And it's ridiculous that Kony has yet to be arrested. I wish more countries would stick their necks out and help out as well. I know there is support for this project world-wide. I wish the other governments would listen to their citizens! This is a project that will make the world a better place. This doesn't benefit us financially. It doesn't benefit us at all. It benefits those in Africa who can't sleep at night because they fear this man. It benefits the people who have been hurt and captured by him. It benefits the families of those murdered because of him.
Now, I would explain everything on my own, but the words on invisiblechildren.com say it better. So for a brief histoy on this war, I'm copying and pasting straight from their site. (NOTE: I did not write the following, I didn't even KNOW about it until last night. Credit to invisiablechildren.com)
A history of Africa's longest-running armed conflict
In 1986, Yoweri Museveni gained the presidency of Uganda. Alice Lakwena, a woman from the Acholi tribe in northern Uganda started the Holy Spirit Movement (HSM) in opposition. The group recruited followers and forged alliances with rebel militias with the intent of entering Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, and freeing the north from government oppression. The Holy Spirit Movement had regional support, but regional support only. When Alice Lakwena was exiled, there was no obvious person to take over leadership of the Holy Spirit Movement.Joseph Kony
Joseph Kony claimed to be a distant cousin of Alice Lakwena’s and the natural successor to lead the Holy Spirit Movement. Soon after Joseph Kony assumed management of the group, he changed the name to the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA. Joseph Kony wasn’t able to maintain the group's number or regional support, so he started stealing food and abducting children to fill the ranks of his army. Subsequently, he lost any remaining regional support. What had started out as a rebel movement to end the oppression of the north became an oppression of the north in itself.Joseph Kony’s tactics were—and remain—brutal. He often forced children to kill their parents or siblings with machetes or blunt tools. He abducted girls to be sex slaves for his officers. He brainwashed and indoctrinated the children with his lies and manipulated them with his claim of spiritual powers.
At the height of the conflict in Uganda, children “night commuted.” That is, every evening they would walk miles from their homes to the city centers. There, hundreds of children would sleep in school houses, churches, or bus depots to avoid abduction by the LRA.
Kony and the LRA abducted more than 30,000 children in northern Uganda.
The ICC indicts five LRA commanders
In 2005 the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Joseph Kony and four of his top commanders: Dominic Ongwen, Raska Lukwiya, Okot Odhiambo, and Vincent Otti. Of those, only Kony, Ongwen, and Odhiambo remain at large. Raska Lukwiya was killed in combat with the UPDF in August 2006 and Vincent Otti was killed by Kony in November 2007—reportedly for wanting Kony to sign the peace agreement, a stance that Kony considered a betrayal.Juba Peace Talks
In 2006 the LRA indicated an interest in peace negotiations. They were held in Juba, Sudan (now South Sudan), and dubbed the Juba Peace Talks. Meanwhile the LRA set up camp in Garamba National Park in northeastern Congo. In August of 2006 a Cessation of Hostilities agreement was signed by the LRA and the government of Uganda.The talks took place over the course of two years. Joseph Kony sent a delegation to negotiate on his behalf, but when the Final Peace Agreement was ready to be signed, Joseph Kony failed to show up—five times.
Throughout the peace talks, and in retrospect, it is suspected that Joseph Kony never intended to sign the Final Peace Agreement. Instead, he possibly entered peace talks as a means of resting and regrouping. The entire time that the LRA was involved in peace talks they were provided with food, clothing, and medicine as a gesture of good faith. It now seems that the LRA was gathering its strength and stockpiling food.
There is also significant evidence that Kony ordered his fighters to attack villages in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during the Peace Talks.
There is more info at invisiblechildren.com, I just copied a few sections over here. Feel free to go to their site and learn more! Now for how I feel....
Joseph Kony is the number ONE wanted man on the Internal Criminal Court's list... That list is full of well know war criminals, etc. Most of them I had heard of many times. But that number one person was a strange name I'd never seen. Never heard. Until last night. Until I watched the YouTube video. How has this man gotten away with all of this without catching world wide attention? He definitely earned that top spot on that list, and yet most of the world had no idea who he was?! Well, it's time to change that! If you haven't watched the video, I encourage you to do so.
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Now, I encourage you to DO something. Spread the video around. Order a kit. Donate. Talk about this war to someone who doesn't know. Write or call your government. Encourage them to DO SOMETHING, or if you're in the US, encourage them to CONTINUE doing something. We need to stay and help! We need to continue with our intelligence missions there, we have the means to do so! How would those in Africa do all of this without help?! THEY NEED US. And now it's time to step up and DO SOMETHING.
That's all for today. My next post will be back to my normal posts, but I had to put this one out there. Please continue to read and SHARE!! :) Thanks everyone!!
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