Urgent Help Kimberly Call Raise New Roof Thai Center Marin
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Many of you know and love Kimberly Call - 25 year Marin County resident, Certified Massage Therapist/Instructor specializing in Thai Massage, and founder of the Thai Massage Center of Marin, first in Mill Valley, then San Rafael.
Last winter, Kimberly's home based Center in Marinwood, San Rafael suffered catastrophic storm damage. Her home owner insurance covered damage inside - but not the roof. The 1958 roof had been patched for years, but is now beyond repair. She urgently needs the roof replaced due to the now severe CA "atmospheric river" storms. The lowest cost that has been quoted is $20k. Can you please help her "raise her new roof"?
These photos are Kimberly's flooded roof during last winter's storms. In spite of her efforts as sole homeowner climbing ladder day and night onto roof in storm gear, hauling tarps, bricks and buckets - no amount of running multiple sump pumps, hoses and electrical cords could remove water from this no longer flat roof with inadequate drainage. Her homeowners insurance provided an emergency tarp structure but it is temporary and not made to withstand another year's storms.
Kimberly tried everything this past year to fund the new roof herself - but could not. She could not get a loan or line of credit; she applied for federal, state and local disaster assistance grants, but they only help with fire and flood damage. During the past year of storm repairs inside, she could not rent to her usual tenants or do her home based work which normally pays the bills, and her emergency funds were depleted in the years of Covid hardships affecting her self employed businesses. She has exhausted all her options and has nowhere else to turn - except to us, her community and friends!
Kimberly has blessed so many of us over the years with her spirit and skill as therapist and coach, and her generosity and joy! Let's show her our community generosity and pay it forward! Thank you for considering supporting this Go Fund Me Campaign and please share widely within your community and social media. She is a local treasure and so deserving of our generosity. Thank you and bless you!
About Kimberly Call, CMT, CCHT, HHC
- Kimberly has two self employed professions in health, beauty and personal growth. She's worked with thousands of clients nationwide and from around the world as personal/executive image consultant since 1986, and as healing arts coach/therapist/instructor since 1996.
- With her lifelong passion for ancient healing arts, Kimberly traveled to Thailand in the 90's as one of the second generation of Americans to study Northern Style Thai Massage, called Nuad Bo Rarn (based in Yoga, Buddhism and indigenous wisdom), a revered healing art over 2,500 years old. She trained with lineage masters in Chiang Mai and became Certified Instructor with the most recognized Thai training vocational school in Thailand, ITM, winner of the prestigious King's Royal Award; and she traveled the country to absorb Thailand's legendary historic beauty, arts and culture. Nuad Bo Rarn is considered to convey the Four Buddhist Virtues, equanimity, compassion, vicarious joy, and loving kindness, and to embody the application of "metta", loving kindness.
- Kimberly returned to found the first Northern Style Thai Massage Center in Marin County in 1996, first in Mill Valley, then relocated to San Rafael in 2000.
- KRON4 News Anchor Pam Moore's interview with Kimberly during the 1997 Summer Olympics showcased Kimberly's Thai Massage Center, helping her reach thousands of clients and train hundreds of students from around the world.
- The Center proudly offers the best healing arts prices in Marin, and discounts to students, teachers, non profits, vets, first responders and seniors in need.
- The Center is also proudly the first and currently only Marin County Green Certified Massage studio, with highest standards of eco practices and top reviews on Yelp and NextDoor.
- Kimberly is a lifelong environmental and community activist and volunteer. She served for eight years as Marinwood Park & Rec Commissioner and continues to actively promote our local ecology and wildlife rescue.
- Kimberly Call is a published author, coach and educator who has contributed her lifelong passion for holistic health and wellness to countless thousands in our community and beyond during the past three decades, and she looks forward to contributing much more in the decades to come!
Please help Kimberly protect her beautiful Center and the healing resource it is for all of us!
Kimberly is grateful for whatever you can do to support the Center's new roof! Thank you and Kap Khun Ka in Thai!
Organizer and beneficiary
Isabelle Finney
Organizer
San Rafael, CA
Kimberly Call
Beneficiary