Last Thursday was the American Woman's Group (AWO) annual craft fair. AWO’s Annual Craft Fair is the largest fundraiser we have supporting the Nastenka Foundation. Nastenka is the AWO sponsored floor of the Moscow Pediatric Oncology Hospital. It was created in 2002, when two of our fellow AWO members realized their Russian language teacher had lost her daughter to Cancer. She was only three.
Several of Russia's finest artists were available to jumpstart our holiday shopping! There were more than 50 vendors selling everything from Matroyska dolls, hand painted Santa's, ornaments, Easter trays, scarves, shawls, purses, etc!
There were more than 50 "theme baskets" donated from members of our Woman's Group which were part of a raffle. I was a part of the "lazy afternoon basket" and the "board game" basket. They had wine baskets, baking baskets, Texas baskets (lots of Texans here who miss their spicy stuff), spa baskets, travel baskets, etc!
In addition, there were several donated items available for silent auction. There was some really awesome stuff! Roundtrip plane tickets, a Kindle, lots of fancy restaurant gift certificates, nights at fancy hotels, paintings, etc...
There was also a used English book table since there’s not much of a selection of good English books here! In addition there was a “American food table” which AWO members donated items and they were sold. I ran the used book table and was able to find some great new reads!
Despite the economic crisis and school closings due to the swine flu--this was the best year yet! We were able to purchase a much needed fancy microscope for Nastenka.
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