Without YOU, this would have NEVER been possible!
Considering it's Thanksgiving weekend (here in Canada), I want to give thanks for living with SO many blessings in my life by donating what I have collected so far. As I continue to sell more and collect from those I have not received payment for yet, I will continue to donate money to New Missions (the company I had intended on travelling to Haiti with) to buy rice in Haiti.
Donations #1 - Paid for an extra bag to be shipped with my friends travelling to Haiti.
One of the couples I was supposed to travel with, and the couple I had been taking Creole lessons with continued to travel to Haiti for (I think) 7 or 8 weeks. They left sometime in August and just returned home last week. Before they went, they collected many items to take with them and ended up with too much stuff. I felt it was a great way to use some of the money I had raised and I gave them $100 to pay for the extra bag to take supplies to one of the oorphanages they worked at while they were in Haiti - Wendy's Love in Leoganne, Haiti.
These are photos they shared of the bag they were able to take from the money raised from the earrings sold.
This just makes all my/our hard work and YOUR SUPPORT worth while.
Isn't this little girl just adorable?
This is my friend Bernice, with a bunch of the children.
And this is my friend, Roland.
So up until now, I had been waiting for the BIG donation to happen when I had collected all the money, in hopes that I could reach $1000 to send. Plus, I thought maybe after the Christmas Shows, this may happen. NOW, in a Thanksgiving kinda spirit, I decided to send the money collected up to now on this Thanksgiving weekend.
Of the $842CDN I have collected, I donated $770USD (which is as close to would be very close to $800 as I could get).
Your support in my Haiti project has been just amazing!
THANK YOU for allowing me to coordinate such a successful project and as well feel SUCH joy to send this kind of money for SUCH a worthy and practical way.
Thank You.
