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In Memory of GREG CHELCUN.... Greg Chelcun was a teacher at the Stevens Point High School and a founding member of the Stevens Point Area Education Association Foundation (SPAEAF), which joined the Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin in 2006 as an endowment fund to help provide funding to students seeking a secondary education. Greg was also a Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin board member for a short time, before becoming ill in 2007 with a genetic cancer which eventually took his life in February of 2009. While we in Greg's family were learning about his illness, and vigorously supporting his strong fight against the cancer, we all decided to begin an education and research support campaign. The Community Foundation was the most natural and logical choice for our seedling ideas, and supported us in the beginning and through the evolution of our efforts. We created the Chelcun Family Fund for Stomach Cancer Research to help provide for these efforts. Recently, the Foundation has helped us with a fund, for the Greg Chelcun Memorial Scholarship, under the wings of the Stevens Point Area Education Association Foundation. We know that Greg's memory will be honored by these efforts, and others will be helped, supported, and educated through our programs, supported by the Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin. To learn more about Chelcun's continuing fight againt cancer... Please visit their website at www.bestronghearted.org
Ma-Kah Water For All Fund.... My dear friends, When a loved one passes away you immediately think the world would come to an end. I have been in that corner once. Last February I lost a dear sister Ma Kah Rosemary Fokum Dinga. She was a nurse by training and she volunteered as a nurse most of her adult life. She became sick of stomach complications and died without proper diagnoses. Before her passing she had mentioned to me repeatedly that “…the greatest gift of life after free air is clean water”. I started the Ma-Kah Water for All project to help build 40 pump wells in honor of my sister. With the help of a few Stevens Point community friends I was able to build the first well in December of 2009. This well will serve about 600 villagers. I have seen firsthand the streams where most of the villagers get their drinking water. The water is making the villagers sick and they spend a lot of working hours fetching water. Please join me by making a small donation today to help build these wells. You can also contribute as a family to build one well. A well costs about $5000. There will be a plaque with your family name attached to the well. Thank you! Sam S. Dinga Founder Ma-Kah Water for All To help Ma-Kah Water For All please make a donation through the Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin. All money goes directly to the building of water wells.
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In Memory of GREG CHELCUN....

Greg Chelcun was a teacher at the Stevens Point High School and a founding member of the Stevens Point Area Education Association Foundation (SPAEAF), which joined the Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin in 2006 as an endowment fund to help provide funding to students seeking a secondary education.

Greg was also a Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin board member for a short time, before becoming ill in 2007 with a genetic cancer which eventually took his life in February of 2009.

While we in Greg's family were learning about his illness, and vigorously supporting his strong fight against the cancer, we all decided to begin an education and research support campaign. The Community Foundation was the most natural and logical choice for our seedling ideas, and supported us in the beginning and through the evolution of our efforts. We created the Chelcun Family Fund for Stomach Cancer Research to help provide for these efforts.

Recently, the Foundation has helped us with a fund, for the Greg Chelcun Memorial Scholarship, under the wings of the Stevens Point Area Education Association Foundation. We know that Greg's memory will be honored by these efforts, and others will be helped, supported, and educated through our programs, supported by the Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin.

To learn more about Chelcun's continuing fight againt cancer...

Please visit their website at www.bestronghearted.org

Ma-Kah Water For All Fund....

My dear friends,

When a loved one passes away you immediately think the world would come to an end. I have been in that corner once. Last February I lost a dear sister Ma Kah Rosemary Fokum Dinga. She was a nurse by training and she volunteered as a nurse most of her adult life. She became sick of stomach complications and died without proper diagnoses. Before her passing she had mentioned to me repeatedly that “…the greatest gift of life after free air is clean water”.

I started the Ma-Kah Water for All project to help build 40 pump wells in honor of my sister. With the help of a few Stevens Point community friends I was able to build the first well in December of 2009. This well will serve about 600 villagers. I have seen firsthand the streams where most of the villagers get their drinking water. The water is making the villagers sick and they spend a lot of working hours fetching water.

Please join me by making a small donation today to help build these wells. You can also contribute as a family to build one well. A well costs about $5000. There will be a plaque with your family name attached to the well.

Thank you!

Sam S. Dinga
Founder

Ma-Kah Water for All

To help Ma-Kah Water For All please make a donation through the Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin. All money goes directly to the building of water wells.