Support Jill – Vote for her Turkish Project

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Support Jill – Vote for her Turkish Project to Win

One Minute!    Jill Only Needs Your Vote

Jill Stockwell, wrapping Manti in the center picture above, took a gap-year off from her studies at Harvard to volunteer at Biga/Canakkale BIKAD Women’s Vocational Cooperative.  She is now back in the US, determined to build the women of Biga a new Women’s and Children’s Center with US funds.  Jilll has already raised $10,000 in funds and has entered her project in a Facebook Challenge to win $25,000 from the Chase Bank Community Giving.

In her below request, Jill is not asking for money.  She only needs your Vote and it takes just one minute.  Won’t you vote for her? Here is her message…

Dear Turkish and American Friends,

First, let me thank you from the heart  for your continued support for the Biga Women and Children’s Center.

Our theme for our newest and biggest fundraising opportunity is….WE DON’T NEED YOUR MONEY WE JUST NEED YOUR VOTE!

As you have doubtlessly heard, Chase Community Giving is holding a contest from now til December 11th. Top 100 projects with most votes will each receive $25,000!!!  This would complete our fundraising goal and we could begin building in the spring….AND IT’S WELL WITHIN OUR REACH!

TO REVIEW…

WHO will this benefit: Low-income families in Biga/Canakkale. Children who would not have been able to go to kindergarden otherwise. Women who want to work.
WHAT will make these dreams come true: a women and children’s center, designed by grassroots women’s initiatives and aimed at helping women go to work and children go to kindergarden.
HOW am I related to this cause? I spent last year as a Harvard Rockefeller Fellow in a small town in Turkey working with a fabulous group of women and now want to “pay it forward” and get them a much-needed women and children’s center.
How can you help? VOTE TODAY! Take 30 seconds to vote on the facebook application.  – allow the application to download, then vote!

…And one more thing 🙂 Please forward this along to your friends and see if we can’t win this thing for Biga women! Such a worthy cause deserves as many votes as we can wrangle up…

Many thanks and all my best,
Jill