Louis Lebel & Hugh Wilson Scholarshipi Fund

Mi Casa Scholarship Recipients

Eco Filtro Project 2010/11

ADF God's Child Project 2012/13

Thank you for your generous donation
to the ADF God's Child Project.


Please click below to donate.

We delivered 61 Ecofiltros on Friday August 6t in belhaf of Alix Foundation.  Below are some pictures of the training and delivery activity.

We will send 85 more filters this month to Camotán Chiquimula and will keep you posted.

God bless you,

 Maribel Ixcajoc Arévalo
Gerente General

Greetings from Norman, where I have been for more than two years, as the Director and Chief Curator to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at University of Oklahoma. It is a challenging and exciting job, which allows me to use my logistical and managerial capacities as well as my creativity toward the development of Education. We started building the new extension to the Museum to welcome a new Collection (opening March 2011) and I have still to raise the money for the endowment and secure the future of the Museum.I will keep you posted on the developments of these projects.

I hope that all of you are well.

As you remembered my "THANK YOU" email from May 2009, we have exceeded our goal last year with $30,000 which had helped more than 12,000 children and families.


ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

But of course, we have to start again each year.

This past summer has been rough for me as I lost two of my strongest supporters to the ADF. My dear nephew, Louis Lebel, who tragically passed away in an accident last May and my dear friend, Franz Schnass, last September. Franz has been designing the ADF fund raising letters and the blog for the last three years.

Thank you again for all of your nice messages of sympathies and your gifts to the ADF.

I WOULD LIKE TO AGKNOWLEDGE BOTH OF THEM AND DEDICATE THIS 2009/2010 CAMPAIGN TO BOTH OF THEM.

This is the information letter for the Alix Donation Fund (ADF) Christmas Project 2009/2010, which I promised to send you every year before the Holidays. Once again we will help Guatemalan's through THE GOD'S CHILD Project and Project ECOFILTRO. However, this year brings something new; a project in the US, and more precisely in Norman, Oklahoma: FOOD 4 KIDS. Although it may sound surprising to add a project in one of the wealthiest nations in the world, the US is also a land of contrasts and there is great poverty, especially in Oklahoma. You would be surprised to learn that 20% of children there suffer from hunger. Yes, you read me correctly: 20% of children haven't enough to eat on a daily basis in the land of McDonald's.

There is also a technical innovation this year in the sense that I will ask you to make contributions directly to the project(s) you want to support OR for European donations please see instructions at the end of this email.

To the extent of your generosity, the Alix Donation Fund (ADF) will finance each of these three projects, as much as possible pending your donation. Of course, my dream would be that together we could cover them completely!

Let's try to make this Christmas, more memorable and enjoyable. Please remember that any donation you can give makes a real difference!

In advance, thank you very much for your help, and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. (Ghislain@dhumieres.org [Ghislain@dhumieres,org] ; or cell number: +1 405 250 9006)

After looking at several projects in Guatemala, I took again the decision to select 2 projects this year, which you have already been supporting previously, BUT I truly think that they are worthwhile and deserve again your favor.

[http://alixdonationfund.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html]

IF you are keen on this project, please send donations to:

The God's Child Project
Post Office Box 1573
721 Memorial Highways
Bismarck, ND 58502-1573

Please write your check payable to "The God's Child Project"

BUT WRITE IN MEMO: ADF

OR use this link to pay online.

Project 1:

Special Education Students in Antigua & Surrounding Communities of Handicapped Students



For the first three years, the ADF has been supporting the Hermano Pedro Special Education School (EEHP) by sponsoring the annual salaries of three professional teachers, as well as providing school supplies for the students. This project, which I had personally visited, is incredible and extremely well run. Last year we have sponsored 5 teachers. After reviewing and visiting the project, I have decided to focus on a better teaching and select four teachers with a better training and educative knowledge for special programs. The school will be able to welcome around 100 physically, mentally, intellectually and emotionally handicapped children from January to October 2010.

The annual salary for 4 teachers and part of the school supplies is around $12,500.



When you click on the above link you are going to see some of these 100 special need children as they excitedly start out their new school year... thanks to you!

IF you are keen on this project, please send donations to:

Family of the Americas Foundation

5929 Talbot Rd,

Lothian, MD 20711

Please make your check payable to "Family of the Americas Foundation"

BUT WRITE in MEMO: ADF/Ecofiltro

OR use this link to pay online.

Project 2:

Following Hurricane Stan, Replacement of Water Filters in 4 Villages as well as Distribution of New Filters


This project is done through the organization Eco Filtro:(www.ecofiltro.com)

 This initiative is quite unique given the big difference that the affected villages' municipalities are thoroughly aware of the health risks of unfiltered water. They have taken responsibility for their population's well being by contributing, quite significantly, to the purchase of the replacement filters. Due to severe droughts, and after my visit to check on the filters, we realized that the capacity to provide clean water is down to 5 to 7 people in each familly instead of 10. This may change next year, as the upcoming winter should be better.


The City halls of some of these municipalities will contribute as follows:

* Joya Grande y Rincon, Grande Chimaltenango will pay 20% of their filters or replacements (Usuarios de AFA): 50 filters for $1,400 and 50 replacements for $850.


* Aldea Cojol Juyu, San Juan Comalapa (Chimaltenango) will pay 20% of their filters (Consejo Comunitario de Desarrollo): 50 filters for $1, 400.

* Zacapa Centro (Usuarios "Corredor Seco" Oriente Guatemala) will receive 100 filters for $3,500 


* Gualan, Zacapa (Usuarios "Corredor Seco" Oriente Guatemala) will receive 100 filters for $3,500

* Hermanas de La Caridad de la Madre Teresa needs 100 filters in Escuintla for $3,500

Also, we will still be supporting Casa Jackson and give them 40 replacement filters and 50 new filters in order to guarantee that the malnourished infants will have pure water. This project will cost $2,710.

For a total of 550 families and malnourished children (around 3,000 people) we will need a total of $16,860.

IF you are keen on this project, please send donations to:

Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma


PO Box 270968

Oklahoma City, OK 73137-0968
USA

Please make your check payable to "Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma"

BUT WRITE in MEMO:ADF F4K-Norman

OR use this link to pay online.

Project 3:

Norman Oklahoma (USA) Food Bank project Help children to get enough food everyday

You may be surprised to learn that one in five children in Oklahoma struggle with hunger on a daily basis. Fortunately, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma's Food 4 Kids program provides chronically hungry elementary school children in Norman with a backpack of kid-friendly, nutritious food every weekend and holiday throughout the school year. Last school year, 482 children in 15 elementary schools in Norman benefited from the Food 4 Kids program. Before joining Food 4 Kids, these children had very little, or nothing, to eat between their free/reduced price school lunch on Friday and school breakfast on Monday.

Please consider a gift to Food 4 Kids-Norman. $200 will provide a backpack of food for an entire school year for one child. Your help is vital to the lives of these children.

This year, the ADF is trying to raise $10,000 in order to help at least 50 kids.

The GOAL of the 2010 ALIX DONATION FUND (ADF)

The campaign in Guatemala is to raise a minimum of $29,360 in order TO HELP more than 3,500 adults and children.This means that with $8.4 per year you can make a huge difference in the life of someone.

In campaign in Norman Oklahoma is to raise $10,000 in order to help at least 50 kids.

TIMING:

For logistical reasons, I will ask that you please send your donation as soon as possible, as the need is huge as usual and the situation really difficult.

My Father is kind enough to receive your gift and will deposit it to my account, from which I will transfer it to the GOD'S CHILD Project, ECOFILTRO or the FOODBANK directly! Shortly after your gift, you will receive a "thank you note" from them, and later on I will send you a Thank You email with photos and details about each of the projects to help those less fortunate that we were able to undertake. Thank you once again for your love and support for the poor. You can't imagine how much I appreciate your kindness and consideration with this.

DONATIONS:

Please use the payment link for each project as it is easier and faster, or send check in USD directly at one of each charitable organization.

PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO MEMO YOUR CHECK ADF

OR, for EEC residents and Euro bank account:



TRANSFER TO MY BANK:


Societe Generale
compte: Ghislain d'Humieres


IBAN: FR76 30003 00190 00058150815 27

OR

SEND A CHECK:


Please write check payable to "Ghislain d'Humieres" and send it to my Father:


General Septime d'Humieres 
Chateau de Marcoles

15220, Marcoles

France

2009/10 God's Child Project Donation

Thank you for your generous donation
to the ADF God's Child Project.

Please click below to donate.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING GUATEMALA IN 2008

Dear Friends,
First of All, I need to share with you the tragic and sad news about the accidental death of my dear nephew Louis Lebel. He was the Godson of my late sister Alix (whose name was given to the ADF/ Alix Donations Fund), and was a strong supporter of our fund raising. He was planning to join forces with me and extended the impact of the ADF toward other countries in the World. He will be so dearly missed. Please do keep my family in your mind and prayers as we are going through this tough moments. Thank you again

Greetings from Norman, OK, where the University semester is ending and students are getting ready to attend graduation and then go on vacation. I am still very busy raising the money for our Museum addition and we have already started construction (Opening in Oct 2011). July will see me at the Getty Museum for an intense training program, then on vacation in France until Mid-August, when I will need to be back in Norman as the University semester will start again.

Sorry for the delay, as I was waiting for the final photos from the 3 projects you have been supporting this year. CONGRATULATION, we raised $30,000 ( a little more than my goal) and managed(even in these difficult financial times) to help more than 10,000 people (families, children etc...).

ONCE AGAIN and for now 6 years in the row, thank you , thank you and thank you for your support, generosity and friendship.
please look at the following photos and details about each projects which you had helped and I hope that you will enjoy this report.

Also, once again, Thank you to my dear friend Franz Schnaas who helped me designing the email and managing the campaign.

Louis - Alix Donation Fund Project 2008/09

Chers Amis de Louis
(See english version following this message)

Merci du fond du coeur de m'avoir contacté pour faire un don au "Alix Donations Fund (ADF)" en mémoire de mon neveu Louis. Le ADF a été fondé en 2003 en mémoire de ma soeur Alix, décédée Il y a 23 ans. Elle était la marraine de Louis.

Le ADF récolte des dons chaque année avant Noel, afin d'aider les enfants de la rue et les familles du Guatemala (enfants handicapés sans soutien, scolarite des enfants de la rue et distribution des filtres d'eau qui sauvent la vie de nombreuses familles.

Louis soutenait cette mission et nous parlions depuis un an de passer au niveau superieur, car Il voulait s'associer à ce projet et le developper en Europe afin d'aider d'autres pays comme le Sri Lanka et l'Egypte.

Je suis très touché d'avance de vos dons. Connaissant le soucis d'éfficacité de Louis, vos dons seront integralement consacrés à l'achat de filtres d'eau, qui seront ensuite transmis aux Soeurs de Mère Theresa au Guatemala. Celles-ci connaissent exactement le besoin des plus défavorisés; Ces filtres d'eau (see website: www.ecofiltro.com) permettent de purifier chaque jour assez d'eau pour une famille de 7 à 10 personnes et réduisent de 50% la mortalité infantile. Les familles à qui l'on donne ces filtres reçoivent également une formation d'hygiène et d'entretien.

POUR Faire parvenir les dons:

Residents Européens et Comptes bancaires en euro

Transfert sur mon compte Bancaire
Société Générale
compte: Ghislain d'Humieres
IBAN: FR76 30003 00190 00058150815 27

Chèque au nom de: Ghislain d'Humieres
à envoyer au Général Septime d'Humieres
Chateau de Marcoles
15220 Marcoles

Residents Americain et Comptes bancaires en US$
(deductible des impots pour residents americains)

Chèque au nom de :Family of the Americas Foundation (MEMO: Ecofiltro/ADF)
à envoyer à Family of the Americas Foundation
5929 Talbot Rd
Lothian, Maryland 20711
USA

Direct PAYPAL
(IMPORTANT: PREVENEZ MOI PAR EMAIL DU MONTANT QUE VOUS ENVERREZ)
allez sur le site: http://www.ecofiltro.com


Merci encore de votre générosité et soutien; tenez moi au courant de vos dons afin que je puisse vous remercier et tenir ma famille au courant.

Amicalement

Ghislain d'Humières

English:

Dear Friends of Louis

Thank you again so much for your kindness and generosity if you had decided to support one of Louis's foundation.
ADF was created in the memory of my late sister, Alix, who was also Louis'Godmother, and helps street children and extremely poor family in Guatemala (see blog: www.alixdonationfund.blogspot.com)
Louis was getting more involved with this project and as a matter of fact, was going to developp it in Europe in order to help other countries (like Egypt and Sri Lanka..) and join me to raise more funds for underpriviledged people from around the world.

I know that Louis was very keen on the Eco filter project and I would like to direct your gifts in his memory to send filters to the sisters of Mother Theresa in Guatemala who know exactly who is in desperate need. (see website: www.ecofiltro.com)

How to Donate: (pending your location)

EEC residents and euro bank account:
transfert to my bank
Societe Generale
compte: Ghislain d'Humieres
IBAN: FR76 30003 00190 00058150815 27

Or send a check Payable to: Ghislain d'Humieres and MEMO: ADF
and mail it to General Septime d'Humieres
Chateau de Marcoles
15220 Marcoles
France

U.S. residents and USD$ bank account (this is tax deductible)
Send a check Payable to: Family of the Americas Foundation and MEMO: ADF
and mail it to Family of the Americas Foundation
5929 Talbot Rd
Lothian, Maryland 20711

or use the Ecofiltro Paypal directly, which you will find on their website www.ecofiltro.com (please notify me, if you are using this way of payment)

Thank you again and do not hesitate to ask me any further questions.Make sure to keep me posted on your gift as i would like to make sure to send you a thank you note and keep Louis' familly posted.

Sincerely Yours

Ghislain

Alix Donation Fund Christmas Project 2008/09

Dear Friends,

Greetings from Norman, where I have been for more than a year, as the Director and Chief Curator to the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at University of Oklahoma. It is a challenging and exciting job, which allows me to use my logistical and managerial capacities as well as my creativity toward the development of Education. We are starting building the new extension to the Museum to welcome a new Collection next March, I have still to raise the money for the endowment and secure the future of the Museum and finally, I have been developing an international program of exhibitions, starting with China and at the moment with Russia. All the things I love!!

I will keep you posted on the developments of these projects.

I hope that all of you are well.

This is the information letter for the Alix Donation Fund (ADF) Christmas Project 2008/2009, which I promised to send you every year before the Holidays. Once again we will help Guatemalans through THE GOD'S CHILD Project and Project ECOFILTRO.

As you remembered my “THANK YOU’ email from May 2008, we have exceeded our goal last year with $40,000 which had helped more than 15,000 children and families.
ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.

Thank you again for your help two years ago, which has been a very difficult one due to the Hurricane Stan. We managed to make a difference and I would like to carry on this year.

I went to Guatemala in September to check on the different projects the ADF is supporting and I took the decision to select 3 projects again this year, which you have already been supporting previously, BUT I truly think that they are worthwhile and deserve again your favor.

To the extent of your generosity, the Alix Donation Fund (ADF) will finance each of these 3 projects, as much as possible pending your donation. Of course, my dream would be that together we could cover them completely!

Let's try to make this Christmas, more memorable and enjoyable. Please remember that any donation you can give makes a real difference! (...even $25!)

In advance, thank you very much for your help, and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Ghislain d'Humieres

2007 Fundraising Report

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

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.

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.

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.

HEALTHY MINDS (WATER FILTERS)

HEALTHY MINDS (WATER FILTERS)

Without good health, though, all of the education in the world is meaningless. This year, once again you enabled the purchase of hundreds of water filter units, and the specialized health education training that comes with them. The dozens of schools in need, poor families, and abandoned or widowed mothers who struggle to raise their children as best they can, can count on these fundamental staple we give for granted: potable water.
With dignified gratitude the mothers and school-teachers, picked up their ADF filters and filter replacements, as you will see on this links:

ADF FOR THE CHILDREN OF GUATEMALA 2006

Dear Friends

I hope this will find you well.
Due to my busy year with Heritage Auction in Texas and the many interviews with Museums, I have been very late to send you my annual, detailed email, and sharing with the results from the ADF for the Children of Guatemala.
Once again, I want to thank you so much, as this would have not been possible without your kindness. This year, we were able to raise $26,297 which help more than 3,500 children.

Please look at the email below from Patrick Atkinson from the God’s Child project and do take the time to look at the slide shows embedded in Patrick's letter bellow.

This year, I will be in Guatemala at the end of August to check on the progress of our work and start the selection of projects for our next campaign.

I will keep you posted.

Again, my deepest appreciation for your support and friendship.

Most of you know that I have been appointed Director to the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art. I am thrilled and it is going to be a busy year for me BUT, I will most definitely continue my work with the ADF for the Guatemalan Children.

Thank you.

Sincerely Yours,

Ghislain

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Message from Patrick:

Dear Ghislain,

Thank You!

Your love and concern for the homeless, orphaned, and abandoned children of Guatemala has once again worked miracles. Though your ADF charitable drive this past Christmas and in the early months of 2007, you, your wonderful friends, and family continue to help us forever impact the lives of these poor people.

There's no way you can ever know the depth of their love and appreciation for all that you have done for them.

I hope you can find a few minutes to look through the following four short slide shows showing some of the thoroughly, appreciative faces of these boys, girls, widowed and abandoned mothers –sometimes entire families, that you are helping through your ADF efforts.


SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS AND SUPPLIES

When you learned at the beginning of this current school year that our orphanage did not have the funds to buy school supplies for the thousands of children who depend on our help, you rallied your friends and family to become involved through ADF.

Without your help, most of these boys and girls would not received the school supplies,
Books, and other financial costs, let alone meet the school enrolment fees that the Guatemalan government imposes even to its poorest students at the start of each new school year.

Though the links bellow you will see are just a few of the many happy –and thankful children, for whom you made it possible to go to school this current school year....




HERMANO PEDRO SPECIAL EDUCATION SCHOOL

One of our most special educational programs is, of course, the Hermano Pedro Special Education School, where we teach children afflicted by Down syndrome, Shaken-Baby Syndrome, Alcohol-Fetal Syndrome, and other forms of general mental retardation. Last year you sponsored the salaries for three special education teachers at this school, and this year, you, through ADF, are doing it again. The following photos catch a glimpse of the wonderful education that these 85 otherwise academically-deprived children are receiving thanks to your help...



HEALTHY MINDS (WATER FILTERS)

Without good health, though, all of the education in the world is meaningless. This year, once again you enabled the purchase of hundreds of water filter units, and the specialized health education training that comes with them. The dozens of schools in need, poor families, and abandoned or widowed mothers who struggle to raise their children as best they can, can count on these fundamental staple we give for granted: potable water.
With dignified gratitude the mothers and school-teachers, picked up their ADF filters and filter replacements, as you will see on this links:




Ghislain, you, your family, and your friends are incredibly special people. You care about others, and you shared both time commitments and financial resources to help those in need who you may not ever meet in person. These are God's very special children. Thank you for providing a greater outlook for their futures.



With our very best regards,

Patrick Atkinson

Founder, Executive Director
The GOD'S CHILD Project

Come visit with the children at:
www.GCPNC.org

www.GCPSC.org
www.ITEMP.org
www.GodsChild.org
www.Albergue.org
www.ANA.org.gt
www.The-Dream-Maker.com