Dear Friends,
This has been a great year for the ADF, as we have exceeded our goal (more than $40,000 which will help more than 15,500 children and families).May I thank all of you again for your wonderful generosity.
The success is also due to some major donors, one of them being generous every year and we would not be able to do it without her.
One also, Anonymous from Switzerland, who I would like to thank in particular with this message!!
Finally, Thank you to my friend Franz Schnaas, who gave me so much of his time to design these web pages which made such a huge difference in the fund raising.
As usual, please find below some small reports and photos on each project together with an additional one done with the extra money.
Sincerely Yours,
Ghislain
Monday, May 12, 2008
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
Each year we struggle to provide our thousands of children with their needed books, pencils, and pens. With the opening of The Scheel Center, a school for dropouts wishing a second chance to escape the cruelty of the streets, the demand for school supplies has increased. ADF family and friends rose to the challenge and helped supply all these children with the tools necessary to learn.
In the slideshow, you can see the appreciation and creativity that these simple, and yet so vital, items have brought to so many children. They have enabled hundreds of children to expand their minds for another year.
In the slideshow, you can see the appreciation and creativity that these simple, and yet so vital, items have brought to so many children. They have enabled hundreds of children to expand their minds for another year.
Additional Project: Resident Nurse
One year salary for a resident nurse at the Dreamer center
"Like any nurse in any clinic around the world, her main job is to get patients ready to see the doctor. This often includes doing an initial evaluation, checking vitals and performing minor investigations of the patient's aliments. However, her job is even more critical and complicated than most because of the unusually high volume of ill patients we treat, for the sole doctor assigned on duty."
The remainder of the money will be earmarked to provide school supplies for an additional 30 street children, through the God's Child Project program.
"Like any nurse in any clinic around the world, her main job is to get patients ready to see the doctor. This often includes doing an initial evaluation, checking vitals and performing minor investigations of the patient's aliments. However, her job is even more critical and complicated than most because of the unusually high volume of ill patients we treat, for the sole doctor assigned on duty."
The remainder of the money will be earmarked to provide school supplies for an additional 30 street children, through the God's Child Project program.
Friday, May 09, 2008
WATER FILTER FOR 6 MUNICIPALITIES THROUGH THE FOUNDATION: FAMILIA DE LAS AMERICAS
With the additional financial support of Alix Donation Fund, Ecofiltro is in the process of distributing within various rural communities, a total of 1,187 water filters in the following areas of Guatemala:
Escuintla, Suchitepéquez, Ojer Kaibal Chimaltenango, Joya Grande, Chimaltenango, Zaragoza Chimaltenango, Tecpán Guatemala
With this support, Asociación Familia de las Americas, the institution which manufactures in the Ecofiltro, will provide these Guatemalan homes a safe and practical tool to purify water. These poor families who live in extreme poverty, were affected by Hurricane Stan in 2005 and to date have struggled to recover economically. This help comes at a timely moment since filters expired after one year of using.
Each family averages 7 members, so we estimate that thanks to ADF donations, 8,309 people have been benefited by improving their health prospects and thus, quality of life.
An important part of this process is community participation, as each household contributes a percentage of the cost of replacements parts that are delivered to their homes. The families are very thankful to receive their waterfilters and they plan to keep replacing them every year, since they have seen the correlation between clean water and their children no longer having diarrhea and other stomach illness due to drinking polluted water.
Escuintla, Suchitepéquez, Ojer Kaibal Chimaltenango, Joya Grande, Chimaltenango, Zaragoza Chimaltenango, Tecpán Guatemala
With this support, Asociación Familia de las Americas, the institution which manufactures in the Ecofiltro, will provide these Guatemalan homes a safe and practical tool to purify water. These poor families who live in extreme poverty, were affected by Hurricane Stan in 2005 and to date have struggled to recover economically. This help comes at a timely moment since filters expired after one year of using.
Each family averages 7 members, so we estimate that thanks to ADF donations, 8,309 people have been benefited by improving their health prospects and thus, quality of life.
An important part of this process is community participation, as each household contributes a percentage of the cost of replacements parts that are delivered to their homes. The families are very thankful to receive their waterfilters and they plan to keep replacing them every year, since they have seen the correlation between clean water and their children no longer having diarrhea and other stomach illness due to drinking polluted water.
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