Posted by christine, March 11, 2010
We’re excited to announce that Mocha Club will be partnering with The Country Throwdown Tour, and YOU can help determine how much we raise for Clean Water in Africa!
Country Throwdown is an exciting new music tour bringing some of the biggest country artists to a city near you this summer – Montgomery Gentry, Jamey Johnson, Little Big Town, and Eric Church, just to name a few.
If you plan to go to the show, you can give back to Mocha Club by entering promotional code [04] during online ticket check out. For every [04] promotional code entered, the Country Throwdown Tour will give $1 to Mocha Club.
And you know that just $1 can provide clean water to 1 African for 1 year!
>> See tour dates and buy tickets here <<
Remember to enter promo code [04] during checkout!
Pre-sale starts this Friday, March 12th.
General on-sale starts Friday, March 19th.
Posted by christine, March 8, 2010
Our dear friends and MC Sponsors Addison Road had something horrible happen on the second day of their tour with Sanctus Real. Basically, the RV they were using for the tour caught on fire…
Thankfully, everyone is okay, but unfortunately they lost all their equipment, merchandise, personal clothes, as well as the clothes and toys for Anniston, Jenny and Ryan Simmons’ little girl. God was watching over them though – the fire started where their little girl usually sleeps in the RV but the RV was empty at the time.
Last year, their trailer and equipment were stolen and now their replacement equipment has been burned. Let’s help them keep carrying on!
Please go to their website to read the full story and see how you can help.
Posted by christine,
We’re so excited for our MC Sponsors Sanctus Real and Addison Road who started their joint spring tour on March 3rd in Albuquerque. The tour will be helping build Clean Water wells in Africa. We’ve got tons of Mocha Club members signed on to help at the table on this tour and we couldn’t be more excited to meet you guys and work with you at the shows. Here’s a photo submitted from the March 4th Phoenix show…
MC representative Hannah Aschliman and MC volunteers Brady Daniels and Robin Lee wearing their "I Need Africa" tshirts at the Sanctus Real Mocha Club table (photo courtesy of Robin Lee)
photo courtesy of Robin Lee
photo courtesy of Robin Lee
Check our Events page for volunteer opportunities in your area!
Posted by christine, February 26, 2010
Wanted to share this story and update from Women At Risk, an organization Mocha Club supports in Nazaret, Ethiopia, to help rehabilitate former prostitutes. We’re so thankful for your help in this restorative work!
A little girl was born in the southeast part of Ethiopia. But her mother died when she was still young. Eventually, her father re-married, but her new stepmother was cruel to her. When she became a teenager, she ran away from home. She was told that she could run to a bigger town and find work. But the only job she could find was to be a live-in house maid. Mostly, house maids have to work from sun-up to sun-down for little pay, a corner to sleep on, and leftover food. This little girl, who became a teenage runaway, eventually found work with a family with grown sons. After a while, she was repeatedly raped by one of the sons, and she had no one to run to, no place to go. She got pregnant, and she was kicked out of the house. What choice did she seem to have? She was encouraged and advised by other young girls like her that she could make more money if she worked in a bar, saved a lot of money and had her own business.
At Women At Risk, we continuously meet girls with similar stories who have been trapped in prostitution for 5…7…9…12 years, not having saved a penny, sick, hopeless, lonely.
This past year, we were privileged to be able to work with 97 women who were struggling to leave prostitution.
Thank you for your support so we can continue to help rehabilitate more women in Ethiopia.
Posted by marisa,
Amanda Houston is the Campus Representative for Seattle Pacific University, one of the 30 campuses around the country that are joining together their gifts and passions to bring real change to our projects in Africa.
Learn more about the Campus Rep program here.
COFFEE! Seattle loves their coffee, especially on the campus of Seattle Pacific University. With the first ever Starbucks only a few miles away and plenty of coffee shops in arms reach of students, the amount of coffee bought in a day, let alone a week or month is, well… I dare not ask. But to Seattle, coffee seems to be more than just a drink in your hand. Coffee brings people together. With Africa on my heart and Mocha Club fueling my passion, I couldn’t help but jump on the chance to share my passion with Seattle. I knew it was a passion that could bring people together, just like coffee. Being a Campus Rep has enabled me to do this to the fullest as MC provides guidance to help point me the right direction, bounce ideas off of, and continue to be a huge encouragement as I set off to fulfill the calling of SPU’s mission statement: “Engage the culture, and change the world”.
It’s been awesome to see how a passion for Africa brings people together, as students have united to share the hope of Africa and how we can be a part of it. Not only have I met a lot of people who have the same passion as I do for Africa, but I’ve also seen the excitement of giving up the cost of 2 mochas in a city where drinking coffee is like breathing oxygen.
