Stouffville Igoma Partnership

The 4th annual euchre tournament will be held on May 24th at the Lemonville Community Centre on McCowan between Stouffville Rd., and Bloomington from 6:45pm until 10pm. Tickets are $10 and there…

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be taking place on April 11th, 2013 in the town offices at 7pm. This meeting is to present to the ‘friends of SIP’…

The 3rd annual euchre tournament was a great success raising approximately 7 hundred dollars and a good time was had by all. This annual event brought the same number…

The Wheels for Water ride was prepared for rain or shine and thankfully, it did not rain. The group of 12 riders and 2 passengers managed to dodge the rain on their…

This September there will be a team of nurses and doctors among others who will visit Igoma. The purpose of this trip is to bring medicine, distribute medication and teach…

Unfortunately this year’s Food for Thought event has been cancelled however, it will be considered for next April. Stay tuned for the details.

The 1st Annual Craft Sale to benefit the Stouffville Igoma Partnership was held on Saturday December 19th, 2011. 16 vendors were selling a variety of jewellery, crafts, baked…

The Directors of the Stouffville-Igoma Partnership would like to thank The Stouffville-Sun Tribune (media sponsor), Visual Perspective (ticket sponsor) as well as our promoters; Brian Roman-Entertainer, Signature Party Services,…

On May 6th, 36 people went to Lemonville Community Center to enjoy a friendly yet competitive Euchre tournament organized by Susan Kerswill, who recently returned from her second work…

The Stouffville Igoma Partnership Board is excited to present our newest fundraising effort called “Food For Thought” being held on Monday April 4, 2011 at the Sleepy Hollow Golf…

On Valentine’s Day, a team of 10 people representing the Stouffville Igoma Partnership (SIP) returned from a two-and-a-half week working visit to Igoma, Tanzania. It was the first trip…

Buying coffee from a local roaster will provide basic medical and educational needs to people in Tanzania.
Velvet Sunrise Coffee Roasters, on Ringwood Drive, and the Stouffville Igoma Partnership…

Come for an evening of fun entertainment featuring local musicians Carys Montgomery and Justin Kerswill, great food provided by the Roving Chef, information on our success and ongoing work…

Peter Neufeld faced his battle with pancreatic cancer as he faced all obstacles; with grace, courage, determination and optimism.

His concern, as always, was for others, and he maintained his…

Compassionate, great family man, a free spirit, and an asset to the community. That is how those who knew Peter Neufeld describe him.
Mr. Neufeld died Monday at his home…

If you have people on your Christmas list who already have everything they could possibly need or want, why not consider making a donation to the Stouffville Igoma Partnership…

The 2008 fundraising dinner for the Stouffville Igoma Partnership (SIP) was another resounding success.

Preliminary estimates indicate that approximately $40,000 was raised towards improving the quality of life for the…

Just when you think Stouffville’s sense of community may be lost in the subdivisions and plazas rising up at all corners, your faith can be renewed.

Trust me. It happened…

A small-town charity is looking for big-time support from residents.

The Stouffville Igoma Partnership is holding its fourth annual dinner and auction Oct. 17 and is looking for donations of…

On Friday Oct. 17, the annual fundraising dinner for the Stouffville Igoma Partnership will be held at EastRidge Missionary Church.

The partnership was established in 2003 to raise funds for…

When Valerie Franc and her colleagues at M&Y Chiropractic heard about an innovative oven designed by Solar Freedom International, they thought it could have great potential for use in…

Last year’s fundraising efforts have enabled the Stouffville Igoma Partnership to complete the new mother and child care facility in Igoma.

The SIP dinner and auction last fall brought in…

These mosquito nets, provided by donations from the Stouffville Igoma Partnership, are vital to help prevent malaria in Igoma, Tanzania. One net costs just $4.50. The building in the…

Once again, the Stouffville Igoma Partnership (SIP) dinner on Oct. 19 was a night to remember. The annual event raised approximately $37,000, and organizers hope that total will reach…

Many residents in Igoma, Tanzania, are healthier and babies have a better chance of a healthy life thanks to the Stouffville Igoma Partnership.

The group has raised funds and provided…

On Friday, Oct. 19, Whitchurch-Stouffville Town Council and Chamber of Commerce will host the third annual Fundraising Dinner and Auction for the Stouffville Igoma Partnership (SIP).

The partnership was established…

With the help of volunteers from the Stouffville Igoma Project, a medical clinic in Africa will soon have an addition for an infant care facility and a laboratory.

Work on…

Peter Boudewyn and his wife, Yvonne, visited Igoma, Tanzania for the third time this spring as part of the Stouffville Igoma Parternship program.

When the couple first joined an SIP…

Justin Kerswill’s life was turned upside down.

He had just visited Igoma in Tanzania and saw the devastation caused to families by diseases such as AIDS and malaria.

The scenes have…

Representatives of the Stouffville Igoma Partnership are planning their next visit to the Tanzanian community this spring.

The tentative departure date for the three week trip is around the end…

EastRidge Missionary Church pastor Lou Geense and Stouffville Igoma Partnership committee chair Peter Neufeld were among a team of 11 volunteers who visited Igoma in Tanzania at the end…

It’s common for towns and cities to partner with similar communities elsewhere in Canada, North America and around the world.

Markham, for example, is twinned with Laval, Quebec; Cary, North…

The Stouffville Igoma Project is looking for other communities to twin with an African village to support residents there.

The Stouffville organization would act as a mentor.

Two weeks after returning…

More Igoman children won’t be dying of malaria and villagers in Igoma may have less water-borne diseases in future thanks to the support of Whitchurch-Stouffville residents.

At Friday’s gala fundraising…

After spending her childhood in Kenya as the daughter of missionaries, Glenna Cummins-Peterson hasn’t been able to forget the plight of the kind and generous people she knew there.

The…

Whitchurch-Stouffville residents have a heart for the people of Igoma, an ocean away.

Their support of the Stouffville Igoma Partnership means about 40,000 residents in the African Village have a…

On Friday, Oct. 20, Town Council and the Chamber of Commerce invite everyone to attend the second annual Gala Fundraising Dinner and Auction for the Stouffville Igoma Partnership (SIP).

The…

The Retail Council of Canada estimates that families will spend an average of $337 per student for back to school supplies this fall. In Igoma, Tanzania, the average annual…

A trip a young Stouffville resident made to Africa left him with a desire to keep helping people there.

To raise more money for the Stouffville-Igoma Partnership (SIP), Justin Kerswill…

When Justin Kerswill returned from Igoma, Tanzania in the summer of 2005 he knew his life had changed forever.

He had traveled to the east African town as part of…

Patients with malaria, AIDS and other diseases no longer have to wait under the sharp rays of the African sun to be treated at Igoma’s only medical clinic.

Work teams…

It’s a tale of two cities, with a happier ending.

Or, to be more accurate, two communities a world apart, separated by massive income gaps and expectations of life.

Thanks to…

A good-news message from Stouffville will be delivered to an east African village next month.

When a 10-member group from Stouffville and area arrives in poverty-ridden Tanzanian village of Igoma…

A Markham nurse is trying to make a difference in an impoverished east African village.

Glenna Cummins, 49, has been a missionary nurse at Urafiki Health Centre in Igoma, a…

More than 60,000 school supply items are on there way to east Africa, thanks to a Stouffville school.

When James Moule, 12, and Tanya Burford, 13, of Summitview Public School…

Every one of the 26 miles Stouffville resident Robin Steckley covered at the Boston Marathon in April means better health care for residents in the African village of Igoma.

She…

Robin Steckley of Stouffville has more than one reason to compete the upcoming Boston Marathon.

Crossing the finish line of the 26-mile event April 19 will give the mother of…

A humanitarian partnership between Whitchurch-Stouffville and a poor East African village will be officially launched at an all-faith church service at the Stouffville Country Market Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

About…

We are in the process of loading a 20 foot container of medical and other assorted supplies for shipment in April this year. This shipment includes a cat-scan machine…

A barn-raising project, coordinated by a Stouffville humanitarian group, has generated $15,000 for a medical centre in east Africa.

About 25 volunteers associated with Stouffville Igoma Partnership have spent six…