• HOME
    • Mission Statement
    • ABOUT US >
      • Our Poem
    • What we do
    • Holiday Market 2025
    • Cheese Fundraiser 2025
    • What we've done
    • NOMINATION KW 2019
    • Our Song
    • OUR STORY
    • Grandmothers Campaign 2007 to 2021
    • To our Sisters
    • OMAS 10th Anniversary
    • In Memoriam
  • CARD SALE
  • MEMBERSHIP
    • FUNDRAISING GUIDELINES
    • FUNDRAISING EVENT PROPOSAL FORM
    • New Member Info
    • OMAS Full History
  • CONTACT US
    • Grandmothers Campaign Events
  • PAST EVENTS
    • 2025 Spring Bling
    • 2024 Holiday Market
    • 2024 WEFTfest >
      • May 23, 2024 Silent Auction
      • OPENING GALA May 17/24
      • Artistic Apparel Fashion Show
      • FINAL GALA May 26/24
      • Final GALA May 26/24
    • 2023 EVENTS >
      • 2023 SLF ANNIVERSARY QUILT >
        • COMMEMMORATIVE QUILT
      • 2023 Fall Fundraiser
      • Market Day Nov. 12, 2023
      • MARKET ATTRACTIONS
      • MAY / JUNE 2023
      • LET the GAMES BEGIN
    • 2022 EASTER MARKET
    • 2022 SWING into SPRING
    • 2022 BENEFIT for AFRICA "A Few of our Favourite Things"
  • MONKEY TAILS
  • EDUCATING OURSELVES
    • African Drumming
    • WHITE PRIVILEGE
    • BLUE ROOF, Durban, S.A.
    • TANZANIA
    • NANCHOLI YOUTH ORG. MALAWI
    • BEACON OF HOPE, KENYA
    • CITY OF JOY - DR CONGO >
      • 10 GUIDING PRINCIPLES
      • DR MUKWEGE
    • RWANDAN WOMENS NETWORK
    • Mothers 2 Mothers - Lesotho
  • 2021 ONLINE MARKET
  • !5th ANNIVERSARY
  • 2021 MARKET March 15
  • STRIDE 2021
  • 2020 STRIDE FUNDRAISER
  • SCRABBLE & MORE
    • SCRAMBLE 2021
    • SCRABBLE 2020 POSTER
    • Scrabble 2019 >
      • SCRABBLE 2019 Poster
      • SCRABBLE 2019 Photos
    • SCRABBLE 2018 Poster
    • SCRABBLE PREP 2017
  • Boston Pizza
  • Art Sale May 4, 2019
    • OFF THE WALL Poster
    • Gallery of Sale items
  • Art Sale May 6, 2017
    • ART SALE Preparation
    • Art Sale Poster
  • TRUNK SALE June 2/18
  • BOHEMIANS April 2018
    • Bohemians Poster
  • POWERED by LOVE Oct 2017
  • Cocktails n'Canvas Feb 2017
  • Textile Art Project May 2015
    • Slide show GALA & AUCTION May 1, 2015
    • AFRICAN MOSAIC QUILT
    • Exhibit Photo Gallery Selling prices have been posted
    • "On the Road" Photos >
      • Photos: Exhibit Opening May 25.14
    • A Tribute to Grandmothers Quilt: SOLD
    • OUR SPONSORS
    • PRESS COVERAGE: April 6, 2015
  • LINKS
  • Born to Walk book
OMAS SISKONA of KW

MONKEY TAILS


AN OMA GOES BANANAS!!! 
As a child, did you play with SOCK MONKEYS?  Have you ever made one yourself? Grandmother Emily Hunsberger of OMAS SISKONA of KW made sock monkeys to benefit the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

She produced two children’s books, Monkey Tails and Monkeys from A to Z, and forwarded the sales directly to the SLF.


Having made the monkeys and written the accompanying «tails» and alliterations, Emily created back-drops and props, photographed the scenes, and then had St. Jacobs Printery print the books.  Jodi Howey of the Printery, did the graphic design.

Monkey Tails, the first book,  was published in 2012.  Monkeys from A to Z followed in 2016.  As the ideas took shape, each book took at least a year to prepare.

So far, Emily has forwarded over $28,000.00 to the SLF from the sale of both books. Some books were sold by other grandmother groups.   As those sales credits have gone to our sister groups, it is difficult to establish the true total sent to the SLF.

Always actively creative,  Emily continues to make monkey Christmas and birthday cards for her family.  Emily Hunsberger is an exceptional example of what one person can do to benefit many.  Congratulations and thank you, Emily!
Check out the slideshow below.