News
3rd Annual SAMAPALOOZA
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Place: The Venue, 881 Granville St., Vancouver
Tickets: Tickets $10 in advance, $12 on the night. Buy yours at Zulu Records, or at the door.
The line-up for this year's event includes great music from Armchair Cynics, Beyond the Fall, and Moments, plus raffles, a silent auction, and video presentations on the SAM Project's work in Africa. Join us in a great night and a great cause.
2010 SAM Community Awareness Program (SCAP)
Volunteers Wanted !!!
The SAM Project is once again accepting applications for the Squamish Community Awareness Program our annual SCAP trip to Zambia.
In 2009, five young people from B.C. flew to Africa to participate in the SAM Project and learn about the conditions and challenges of the impoverished 3rd World. For three weeks, they worked in vegetable gardens, planted tree seedlings, participated in HIV/AIDS awareness workshops, and helped teach pre-school children, all in rural Zambia. The SCAP volunteers stayed overnight in the villages, and got an “IRL” experience in how subsistence families live.
We are now planning our 2010 SCAP trip to Zambia. If you are a resident of B.C., under the age of 25, and have a passion to help the disadvantaged people of the world, we would love to hear from you. Contact us by email at info@thesamproject.ca and tell us about yourself. We will be interviewing candidates in February 2010.
The SAM Project granted Charitable Status by Canada Revenue
We are very pleased to report that we have been granted status as a Charitable Organization by Canada Revenue. That means that we will now be able to issue tax receipts to Canadian donors, which can be used when filing income tax returns. We will be sending out receipts to everyone who donated retroactive to January 1, 2008, the date from which Canada Revenue has recognized The SAM Project as a charity.
The SAM Project joins Africa Phytotrade
PhytoTrade Africa is a non-profit trade association that works to create economic opportunities for poor rural communities in the dry and marginal areas of the region by linking them to markets for plant products, mainly essential oils, that are derived from wild fruit and seeds from common woodlands.
The SAM Project will help rural communities organize the harvest and processing of indigenous plants, which is an ideal enterprise for many rural villages as it requires no external inputs. Phytotrade conducts the research on appropriate species, and then aids in the development of markets and sales channels for the products harvested.