Unite our global Sufi family!
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Help us bring young adult members of our South American family to Mendocino Sufi camp and beyond!
As many of you know, the 3rd Sufi Youth Jam took place in March in Colombia. It offered a unique opportunity to share songs, practices, life experiences, and above all strengthen our global family by building lifelong friendships.
Three of the precious humans we spent time with there feel a great call to travel to the West Coast and dive into this summer's camps and retreats alongside their North American family. We hope to bring Tania Shahida, David Jamal, and their two children Uky and Imi to Mendocino youth retreat, main camp, and Northwest camp. Our dear friend Sophya Dhyana will be attending these retreats for her second go round, this time as a partner and sweetie to Nathan Wasserman, a lifelong Sufi many of you know well.
[Lovely Sophya at Quilotoa Lake in the Ecuadorian Andes.]
The wisdom, music, and stories David, Tania, and Sophya are ready to share with our community are invaluable. These three are beautiful leaders, musicians and medicine people in the truest sense of the word. They carry messages our North American family needs desperately. As students of Murshida Darvesha, Murshid Abraham and Murshida Halima, they infuse Sufi practice with a deep respect for indigenous tradition, music and wisdom; honoring, serving and remembering Pachamama. Catch a feeling of David and Tania's music here, and a clip of Sophya's magic here .
[David and Tania performing at a medicine music festival in Colombia.]
Clearly, raising the funds for five human beings to travel to the West Coast for over a month from Colombia and Ecuador is no easy feat. On top of that, many of you are familiar with the high costs of camp tuition. Rest assured we are exploring all possible options to secure support from existing scholarship reservoirs.
[Uky, 13, and Imi, 9.]
There was an outpouring of generosity for our cause at both this year's Jamiat Ahm in Portland and Sky Camp near Eugene. THANK YOU so much to those of you who already contributed. You strengthened our belief in our family's ability to make things happen, so much that we decided to try to raise enough funds for Tania and David's kids (8 and 13) to travel with them. If we are not able to raise the full projected $15,000 for all five of these sweeties to travel, there is a possibility that the kids will be able to stay with family members while David and Tania are away. However, this would mean they could not stay in the States to attend Northwest Sufi camp, and this would be a serious loss (for us). Plus, their family would need to be apart for almost a month.
So, we ask that you please give generously. If we make more than is necessary to cover the aforementioned journeys, we are excited to establish an scholarship that supports young adult leaders from South America to travel to Mendocino camp in years to come.
[Tania and David with their teacher Murshida Darvesha.]
Big, big thanks and love to Jelehla Ziemba for her talented godmothering of this project. We appreciate you <3
If you are moved, we ask you please share far and wide! Your contribution will unite North and South and strengthen our beautiful family in ways we can't even yet imagine.
[Sophya leading a circle of Sufi sweeties in Ecuador.]
The following is our closest estimation for necessary funds at this time. All costs are for three young adults and two kids unless otherwise noted.
Food while not at camp (25 days): 5,200
Transportation: 1,000
Lodging: 1,030
Youth Retreat Tuition (for 2 kids only, travel scholarships covered young adult tuition): 500
Mendocino Camp tuition: 2,550
Northwest Camp tuition: 2,680
Airfare: 5,000
subtotal: 17,960 - 2960 (generosity from Jamiat Ahm and Sky Camp)=
TOTAL: 15,000
Love,
Team Ishq
Evan Muid, Bryn, Nathan Nuraddin, Sophya Dyhana, Tania Shahida and David Jamal, Uky and Imi
As many of you know, the 3rd Sufi Youth Jam took place in March in Colombia. It offered a unique opportunity to share songs, practices, life experiences, and above all strengthen our global family by building lifelong friendships.
Three of the precious humans we spent time with there feel a great call to travel to the West Coast and dive into this summer's camps and retreats alongside their North American family. We hope to bring Tania Shahida, David Jamal, and their two children Uky and Imi to Mendocino youth retreat, main camp, and Northwest camp. Our dear friend Sophya Dhyana will be attending these retreats for her second go round, this time as a partner and sweetie to Nathan Wasserman, a lifelong Sufi many of you know well.
[Lovely Sophya at Quilotoa Lake in the Ecuadorian Andes.]The wisdom, music, and stories David, Tania, and Sophya are ready to share with our community are invaluable. These three are beautiful leaders, musicians and medicine people in the truest sense of the word. They carry messages our North American family needs desperately. As students of Murshida Darvesha, Murshid Abraham and Murshida Halima, they infuse Sufi practice with a deep respect for indigenous tradition, music and wisdom; honoring, serving and remembering Pachamama. Catch a feeling of David and Tania's music here, and a clip of Sophya's magic here .
[David and Tania performing at a medicine music festival in Colombia.]Clearly, raising the funds for five human beings to travel to the West Coast for over a month from Colombia and Ecuador is no easy feat. On top of that, many of you are familiar with the high costs of camp tuition. Rest assured we are exploring all possible options to secure support from existing scholarship reservoirs.
[Uky, 13, and Imi, 9.]There was an outpouring of generosity for our cause at both this year's Jamiat Ahm in Portland and Sky Camp near Eugene. THANK YOU so much to those of you who already contributed. You strengthened our belief in our family's ability to make things happen, so much that we decided to try to raise enough funds for Tania and David's kids (8 and 13) to travel with them. If we are not able to raise the full projected $15,000 for all five of these sweeties to travel, there is a possibility that the kids will be able to stay with family members while David and Tania are away. However, this would mean they could not stay in the States to attend Northwest Sufi camp, and this would be a serious loss (for us). Plus, their family would need to be apart for almost a month.
So, we ask that you please give generously. If we make more than is necessary to cover the aforementioned journeys, we are excited to establish an scholarship that supports young adult leaders from South America to travel to Mendocino camp in years to come.
[Tania and David with their teacher Murshida Darvesha.]Big, big thanks and love to Jelehla Ziemba for her talented godmothering of this project. We appreciate you <3
If you are moved, we ask you please share far and wide! Your contribution will unite North and South and strengthen our beautiful family in ways we can't even yet imagine.
[Sophya leading a circle of Sufi sweeties in Ecuador.]The following is our closest estimation for necessary funds at this time. All costs are for three young adults and two kids unless otherwise noted.
Food while not at camp (25 days): 5,200
Transportation: 1,000
Lodging: 1,030
Youth Retreat Tuition (for 2 kids only, travel scholarships covered young adult tuition): 500
Mendocino Camp tuition: 2,550
Northwest Camp tuition: 2,680
Airfare: 5,000
subtotal: 17,960 - 2960 (generosity from Jamiat Ahm and Sky Camp)=
TOTAL: 15,000
Love,
Team Ishq
Evan Muid, Bryn, Nathan Nuraddin, Sophya Dyhana, Tania Shahida and David Jamal, Uky and Imi
Co-organizers (5)
Bryn Morgan
Organizer
Portland, OR
Golden Gate Sufi Circle
Beneficiary
David Coral
Co-organizer
Evan Bushnell
Co-organizer
Nathan Wasserman
Co-organizer
Tania Laisuna
Co-organizer