The message below is from a friend of mine. Please read Amy's message below and help her and her sister in any way you can. Pass this on to anyone you think might be able to help.
Dear Friends,
As the sky breaks up and the rain falls around us, the earth seems to be mimicking the emotional upheaval my sister Kim and I are currently experiencing. Today, after over three months of paperwork and bank schinanagans, we were turned down for a business loan that our banker had led us to believe was a shoe-in. No options. No “let’s try something else”. That’s it. I am an “unemployed” mother, my sister an “unemployed” recent graduate, no assets except part of a house which we already borrowed against to allow me to stay home with my beautiful daughter Mattea for the last nine months, and to provide the “personal investment” of $40 000 that we have already put into the start-up of our business. No understanding or respect for the vision we have of creating a home for women to love their bodies, love their sexual selves, their reproductive selves, their sisterly, goddess selves.
In a cry for hope, we are reaching out to our fellow womankind to help us. We need $40 000 more to finish our start-up – to finish paying our contractors, to buy our merchandize, to buy our signage. We would not ask, if we didn’t know that so many of you are aching to help and yearning to be part of what we are creating. Women supporting women. Bodies loving bodies. Hearts reaching hearts. What can we offer you in return? Nothing and everything, depending how you look at it. Our public display of thanks, by placing your name on our website. Our eternal gratitude. Most importantly, a symbolic “ownership” in “Red Tent Sisters,” a business dedicated to serving women’s hearts, bodies and minds. We welcome your e-mails and phone calls; we cherish the opportunity to tell you about what we are doing. And, if you know of any other women who know us, or know of us, or would be supportive of our cause, please feel free to forward this e-mail to them. Please remember that even a small contribution, made by enough people, can help realize our dream; that is the power of the internet.
To help, please write to us at:
M4J 1L6
416-463-8368 (business)
416-422-4221 (home)
Blessings,
Amy and Kim
Amy Sedgwick
O.T. Reg. (Ont.)
