State Representative.District 75 Chente Quintanilla visited Raindrop Turkish  House. Turkish tea and desserts were enjoyed and a great conversation took off. A brief presentation of past activities and the upcoming events of Raindrop Turkevi were given, such as Turkish Language Classes, Cooking class,Friday social and Turkic Fest.

( Feb 4, 2010 El Paso, TX )

Art Exhibition Cultural and Educational Relationships in Santa Fee an historic art exhibition sponsored by Raindrop, is telling the story of Turkey and its people to international audiences. As lead sponsor, Raindrop  Foundation is using the exhibition to foster cultural understanding in our global communities, build educational relationships, and stimulate cross-cultural programs. (Jan 31, 2010 El Paso, TX)

Raindrop Turkish House and UTEP Turkish Student Association TSA organized Conferance about Endemic Plants of Turkey

Conferance 11 Feb, 2010 Thursday 1PM AT Union Cinema, UTEP

Raindrop Turkish House offered the first one of Turkish cuisine cooking class on Saturday, January 23, 2010. Our cooks presented how to make potato salad, spinach borek, semolina dessert and puffy pastry with cheese and sausage. Today, we watched a brief documentary about Turkish coffee. While one of our cooks was doing a presentation about Turkish coffee, other cook prepared Turkish coffee for us. And then, we drank our coffees with Turkish delight together in a friendly atmosphere. The coffee cups were perfect and participants wanted to know where they can find them. For this time, our menu was for tea time. Our participants wanted us to cook for breakfast time for the next time. Here are the comments of the participants: “Excellent both of you did a great job. Thank you so much for your time.” , “ I like your class a lot, it has a simple form to have things together, I would like some dishes help my health better.” , “Good job. More dinner items & more hands on for participants. Thank you” , “Very good Instruction on how to prepare Turkish food. Very friendly and informative”, “Very good everything you do great!”, “Loved the class! Can’t wait to make spinach borek!” , “Wonderful food and excellent instructors. I am very excited about the next class. Thank you”

(Jan 23, 2010 El Paso, TX ) 

 Haiti Earthquake Victims Waiting For Help! Haiti Earthquake: a catastrophic earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The full extent of the damage is still being assessed, but the death toll -- already in the thousands -- is climbing fast. This is the worst earthquake to hit the area in more than 200 years Dear Friends, This is the time that we need to show our friendship and brotherhood. Raindrop Helping Hands launched a campaign for Haiti earthquake victims. Please send us your generous donation so that we can deliver it to those who are in need. Funds collected through the Helping Hands' account will be delivered to the authorized people to deliver it to Haiti Earthquake victims. You can make your donations by: * Check (Please make your checks payable to: "Raindrop Helping Hands" and place the memo as Haiti Earthquake. The check should be sent to 9301 West Belfort Houston, Texas 77031) * Google Checkout (Please log on to website http://raindropturkevi.org/helpinghands. You can see the Donate Thru Google Checkout button on the left side of the website and choose Haiti Earthquake to make donation.)  ( January 20, 2010 El Paso, TX )