Sunday, September 26, 2010

David Waterman donates book proceeds to Rose Charities

Renowned international photogrpaher David Waterman, to donate proceeds of new book to Rose Charities ! Dave has had an illustious career in travel, sports (skydiving) and phto-journalism but in his early days was with the British 'paras' and jumped into the Suez Canal area in the 'Suez Crisis'    Later, Dave Waterman was one of the main advocates and introducers of the then new 'relative work skydiving' in the UK and set the scene which lead onto several great teams (including 'Symbiosis' )  and a movement which exists to the present day. . Dave now lives in Spain, runs professional workshops and leads photo-expeditions to Morocco and other  locations 

Please take a look at this fine book (click) which is an important and fascinating record of British and international history from someone who was directly there

Monday, September 20, 2010

Kwantlan University B.C. students working with Rose Charities

Rose Charities is excited to be working with students from Kwantlen Univeristy this term! Different groups of students will be working with different sections of the charity and will be learning about fund-raising, policy making, project planning, event planning, and how an NGO operates in Canada. They will be blogging about their experiences on the Rose Charities Canada site  http://rosecharities.ca

Friday, September 17, 2010

Supermodel Noot Seear and Roberto Luongo: Rose Charities African Nights: Vancouver

Noot Seear is should be swaying to the drums on tuesday night at the Rose Charities African Nights fundraiser. If she can get the time off from her busy acting and modeling schedule in L.A. she will be jetting in for the show. Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks (and gold medal Vancouver Olympics 2010 winner)  won't himself be there, but is represented in the most presigious item to many in the silent auction, a goalie stick autographed by him !  Noot and Canucks fans.. make sure you come    africannights.ca