West of Ireland Announces Charity Change

Known in Second Life (SL) for its longstanding support of Project Children, West of Ireland (WOI) representative, Sioban McMahon, today announced changes that WOI will be making to its charitiable sponsorship. "Saturday night, after the surfing comp, I received an email from the president of the South Texas Celtic Music Association (STCMA). He had heard from the Texas chapter of Project Children. I don't have all the details, but the Texas chapter is changing direction in their fundraising. They want to move away from having music events such as the STCMA's annual festival or our work in SL as Project Children fundraising events. I'm not certain what their new approach will be. The end result, however, is that we are still a 501c3 nonprofit with the mission to promote Irish and Celtic culture. We are in the process of finding a new charity with whom to link. The charity needs to have 501c3 status, must be well respected, and fits in with our general theme (related to Irish children or other Irish charity, or an international children's charity). It will take us a couple weeks, at least, to get the new relationship set up. We'll hold events as scheduled but we won't be asking for donations." 

She added, "We ask our friends to be patient with us. We're here to stay, but are in a time of change."  McMahon promises any monies raised to date in support of Project Children will be forwarded to that charity.  Any performers booked for the next few weeks have agreed to continue to support WOI and perform as scheduled while WOI determines their next charitable focus, and McMahon adds,  "All of us at WOI are grateful to them." 

Stay tuned to SurfWatch for more information regarding this important WOI charitiable change.

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