AANE's Walk-In-Beauty Program from Wendy Sanborn

[Totems4jt]

Hello to everyone in Jayland:

Wendy Sanborn volunteers for the Adopt-A-Native Elder Program and has created a program called Walk In Beauty that helps Navajo children. She is in her 20's and has on her own, started this program. Over the past 2 years, Wendy has collected donations and with them bought over 300 pairs of shoes for very needy Navajo children who live on the Navajo Reservation in southern Utah and northern Arizona.

Below is a website where you can vote for a wonderful humanitarian, Wendy Sanborn. She has been selected by L'Oanréal Paris as a 2008 Woman Of Worth for the Points of Light Institute. Originally there were 2700 entrants and now there are only 10 women left who are being honored.

L'Oréal Paris will donate $5,000 to Walk in Beauty this December. And the program has the opportunity to win an additional $25,000 donation for Walk in Beauty through online voting. Such a sum would allow the program to provide new sneakers for hundreds of children on the Navajo Reservation.

Please visit www.womenofworth.com to vote for Wendy Sanborn to become the National Woman of Worth as well as for Walk in Beauty to receive another $25,000 donation. You can cast your vote thru Monday, November 24th.

You will be able to help more of these Navajo children with your vote. Please email your friends so that they too can vote.

Blessings to all,

RRF
Forum Hostess


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A LETTER FROM WENDY:

Dear Friends,

Thank you for making the Rug Show such a beautiful experience again this year. I know that the elders, other volunteers and visitors all appreciated our efforts to create a special event.

I'm writing to ask for your support on a different front... you may have already heard that Walk in Beauty has been honored by the Points of Light Institute and I have been selected by L'Oréal Paris as a 2008 Woman Of Worth.

Women Of Worth--an award to honor women who volunteer in their communities--selects 10 honorees from around the country each year and makes donations in their honor.

L'Oréal Paris will donate $5,000 to Walk in Beauty and another $5,000 to the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation this December. We have the opportunity to win an additional $25,000 donation for Walk in Beauty through on-line voting. Such a sum would allow us to provide new sneakers for hundreds of children on the Navajo Reservation.

Please visit www.womenofworth.com to vote for me to become the National Woman of Worth and Walk in Beauty to receive another $25,000 donation. Voting runs through next Monday, November 24th.

Walk in Beauty is built on all of our efforts to support the elders and children and thus the award honors all of us!

In beauty,

Wendy

[claudia]

Done,

[dragonfly]

After you vote, you have a chance to send an email message to your friends, asking them to vote too. Don't forget to type a note in the "Message" box, so they know who to vote for

[adoptanativeelder]

Hi everyone,
Wendy has been to New York once already and will be traveling there again this week. CNN Inspire Summit in New York will be showing a short film of Wendy traveling to the reservation. It will be aired December 10th. Later this month it should be available to view at www.womenofworth.com.
Wendy would like to thank Jane Wierengo, Mary Anne Sanborn, all the ANE volunteers, those who have donated to Walk in Beauty, and the reservation schools who help find those children most in need.
Thank you, Wendy

[blusky51]

;D
you're welcome

[adoptanativeelder]

this just in:
"Good Morning Friends,

We are back from our trip to New York and getting back in the swing of
things. In light of your wonderful support, I wanted to share a few
thoughts.

The other "Women of Worth" were fantastic--bright, friendly, hard-working
women who are trying to make a difference in the world. I was inspired by
their way of being and what they are doing. Another woman won the big award
but the rest of us were thrilled. Her son died of cancer this February and
we hope this award helps bring her--even a modicum of--healing. When she
won, she burst into tears and kept repeating, "This is for Ryan." In that
moment, I knew things turned out just as they needed to.

Still, I'm so grateful to you for all of your efforts to help Walk in Beauty
win the grand prize. I'm sorry that we didn't win, but I believe very
strongly that a tremendous amount of good will was generated for our work
(and that of ANE in general) and that many people have been introduced to
the program who may choose to support it in the future.

Most importantly, I was deeply moved by all of your enthusiasm for, and
efforts on behalf of, Walk in Beauty. I am so proud to be a part of this
community and I was proud to represent you in New York.

Another wonderful outcome of the process is that L'Oreal made a short
video--that lasts perhaps 3 minutes--about Walk in Beauty. I was stunned to
see how simply and well it captures the essence of what we do. I can't wait
for you to see it--and see the kids getting their new shoes. We will try to
have it up on the ANE website within a week, www.anelder.org

Please consider forwarding this e-mail to your network of friends, family
and colleagues so they can know how deeply I appreciate their support. It
might be fun for them to see Walk in Beauty in action too

Thank you my amazing friends!

In beauty,

Wendy

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Wendy Sanborn
Walk in Beauty Coordinator
[e-mail] "