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5.13.2011
Greetings:
To our invaluable supporters for orphaned and abandoned children, we wanted to bring some updates to you. Our gratitude for your monthly pledge contribution is immeasureable! You have made the difference in the lives of destitute and abandoned children bringing love and necessities to each one in our care. We invite every reader to consider helping by giving monthly support also. We will share how that may be done.
In the Dominican Republic, there is no foster care. Our strategy is to bring street children into homes, normalizing their lives, living in a natural family setting with house parents. Your pledges make this possible with the payment of rent and food and utilities and clothing, education, and medical /dental. The full support needed for one child is around $200 per month for all of these things. Our pledge money is pooled each month and sent to the household’s caregivers. We visit our Santo Domingo mission quarterly to insure firsthand the quality of care they receive and to check receipts for accountability. We are personally inviting you to travel along with one of our mission teams! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=203750336317560 Our schedule is posted here!
When we visit,the huge smiles on their faces tell us a whole lot about their happiness. Children should be safe and secure to grow up as healthy contributors to society when they are adults. I cannot think of a better, more biblically correct strategy to stop sex trafficking, inner city gangs, crime and predation than to rescue children from a life in the streets when they are still young and unhardened by the school of hard knocks. Love invested in a child is one of the most important activities of our lives!
We have, according to UNICEF 130,000 orphaned/ abandoned children in the DR. Our plan is to attract as many as the Lord will give us. Currently we have plans to build a modern earthquake secure, world class facility to house up to 64 children. Land has been donated to us and we have architectural/ engineering plans and final permission to build already in place. We will be initiating a Capital Building Campaign to raise $1 Million USD to complete this building. To read more about this go to our website: http://oaoutreach.org/childrens_home.htm
To read about the municipality approved project narrative pdf, go to this link:
http://oaoutreach.org/OACH_project_narrative.pdf
We need your continued support and Alsion Morel will be directing you with the various ways you can pay. Online donations: www.oaoutreach.org/donate.htm
I am also asking that you consider ways to help us expand our base of orphan care support. We would rather use a grassroots way of dealing with this than to advertise. Many very reputable non-profits spend up to 15% or more of their income on advertising. Since we are small and lean, we can ensure 100% of your funds are spent on direct care, not costly administration. Here are some ideas of how you can help. Get a small group together, like a bible study, Sunday School class, work pod,family or small church to fully sponsor a child ($200 per month). We are recommending ACH deposits for timely and efficent record-keeping! Ask Alison to set this up. Here is a great one for the kids: Start a piggy bank at home to save your change. This is a great lesson for small children and Sunday school classes. We will provide a jar and sleeve to identify who we are and you can cash it in quarterly and add it to your pledge. Come up with some ideas of your own. One woman helps by selling toys and pledging a percentage of her proceeds to help our orphans. Be creative and let’s together thank God for the bounty we all enjoy here in the USA. Again, words cannot sufficently express our gratitude for your selfless and continuos gifts. May God, richly bless you for your generous compassion!
Sincerely,
Ken Peters
Executive Director
Open Arms Outreach/ Kairos Caribe
kpeters@oaoutreach.org
ORPHAN SPOTLIGHT
Dayan is our “poster child” because he loves his photo taken. Abandoned by his Mom who is a drug addicted prostitute, he suffers from malnutrition, specifically rickets. Only 24 pounds at five years old, his bones are so brittle he needs a major nutritional intervention and perhaps surgery so he can walk. He receives intensive care from specialists and is a candidate for the CURE Hospital’s orthopedic surgery. He is currently fully sponsored by Faith Chapel of Newport, NH. A child like this could suffer and die from “failure to thrive” without your compassionate intervention. Dayan is doing well and recently was living with our American mission team this past winter during our ten day trip as our up close and personal campaign continues to put third world children in REAL touch with their sponsors. Check with us about correspondence to any of our children, which we can hand deliver on one of our trips. Currently we are caring for seven orphans that are all boys at this writing.
