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You have found the CABTeam (Carried Away Bag Makers Team). Our international team is over 100 members strong and growing every day. We opened this team shop so that we could give back to those in need. All proceeds are given to charities voted on by our team members. *****************************************************************

Growing Hope: The Carried Away Team 2010 Spring Challenge After the trying year we all faced in 2009, we want to start 2010 off with thoughts about how we can all grow this year and make better lives for ourselves and our community.

Creations for this challenge will represent growth in either a literal sense, such as growing food or plants or a more abstract sense such as growing your heart or growing a community. All proceeds will go to our team's loan fund on www.Kiva.org. We have chosen Kiva for it's unique ability to connect lenders with borrowers in a cycle of continuous uplift & community growth. Lenders on Kiva can make loans to entrepreneurs or collectives the world over in amounts as small as $25. The loans are used to start or expand small businesses that provide much needed items, jobs & services in that community. Once the loan is repaid, the money can be lent to another business person and then lent again and again. The funds from this challenge will start our cycle of growth. Updates will be posted to our blog at http://www.carriedawayteam.blogspot.com.Our goal with this challenge is to sow our team lending fund with a seed of $150 in order to make our first three loans. Each member who participates has also seeded our fund with $5. 100% of your purchase price for these salutes to growth will be added to our fund.

As part of this challenge, each entry will be posted on our team blog for public vote. The winner will get to select our first three $50 loan recipients. *****************************************************************

Thanks to everyone who contributed to our first two challenges... Handbags for Heroes and Change Purses for Change. We will continue to donate proceeds to these wonderful charities with every purchase of a handbag from that particular challenge. Those items all have an image of either the Herobox.org "H", or the Women for Women International Change Purse.

Challenge 1-HeroBox is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides custom support to our heroes overseas. Their mission is to provide items that deployed American soldiers need and want while they are away from home defending our freedom. A HeroBox is a care package that has been customized to a soldiers specific request.

Our team was able to send three heroboxes to a Marine unit serving in Asia.

Challenge 2-"Change Purses for Change". Each team member who participated designed a change purse, wallet or pouch suitable for holding money. We are donating the proceeds from the change purse sales to Women for Women International. The change purses all have an image of the Women for Women logo in the listing. Since it’s creation, Women for Women International has empowered over 153,000 women survivors of war to move toward economic self-sufficiency with our year-long program of direct aid, rights education, job skills training, and small business development. They have distributed $42 million in direct aid, microcredit loans, and other program services. Since 1993, Women for Women International has mobilized more than 125,000 women and men in 105 countries worldwide to reach out and support women survivors of war – one woman at a time. You can read more here http://www.womenforwomen.org/index.php

Have fun shopping. And, a big thank you for helping to support our charities. ________________________________________________________________
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