Hope For The Nations

CONGRATULATIONS go out to our 4 graduates who successfully finished 4 year degrees at Cuttington University in Liberia!!

We are so proud of you Momo Bai, Peter Flomo, Jeremiah Gbellay and Marcus Jamel! You worked hard and achieved your goal!

We celebrate with you today.

Each one of these boys came from a devastating past and has grown up as an orphan child. Today everything has changed! Like one put it, "you took us from the trash heap, and now we are shining like gold!" Today they have a hope and a future!
 

Written by Tyler at Project: AK-47

Henda was the fourth of five sisters born in a small Burmese township of 1,000 people. It was a normal Burmese town filled with drug trafficking, tribal banter, and deep-seated hatreds typical of the region. Henda’s family was prohibited from trafficking drugs due to local interests, which eventually gave them no choice outside of poverty. When Henda graduated from 6th grade, her teachers offered a “promising” army program to study medicine and electronics. With dreams of rescuing her family from their current poverty, she signed up and spent the next 4 years as a slave.

When we interviewed Henda and listened to her experiences with violence and hardship, the pain her memories inflicted was clear. She worked the fields or did military drills all day, and then danced in the evenings. The cost of making one mistake was mandatory beating by all the other children with sticks and belts. Girls had to work in the fields with the younger boys, and were sometimes used as prostitutes. Henda fled the army at risk to her life when she was 16. By the time we connected with her, she had fled the country.

You can give others like Henda hope by joining Project: AK-47 $7 monthly rescue and care campaign. Henda and kids like her are part of our world and we can do something positive to make a difference that counts!

Colors & Tone want to speak out on behalf of children at risk.

Mark Tromsness of Colors & Tone:

“I have had the privilege of knowing and supporting ‘Hope for the Nations’ for over 10 years. As an ART IS {HOPE} artist, I have been given the opportunity to be a Champion for Safe Houses in Cambodia.

I chose this project because I recently supported the cause of a close friend of mine who works in Cambodia. There I was able to see a school program funded for young children. My heart is to use my art as a platform to spread the word about this cause and to raise $$$ for children caught in human trafficking in Cambodia.

One of the key pieces that drew me to the ART IS {HOPE} Program is that as a ART IS {HOPE} artist ALL finances raised go directly to the specific projects we champion – to the children. We do not receive personal financial renumeration for our involvement. I BELIEVE IN THIS.

Please consider donating to this cause and be a Champion with me in Cambodia!"

KILIMANJARO 2010 and ART IS {HOPE} invite you to a fundraising concert

FEATURING: The MacGregors

July 26th at 7pm at the Minstrel Café . Kelowna

Click here for tickets and to learn more. All proceeds go directly to Organics for Orphans

4 ORDINARY PEOPLE take on one EXTRA-ORDINARY FEAT
*Hear their stories …support the cause!
 

We just received word from our staff in one of our SE Asian children's homes that there was an electrical surge and explosion that devastated one of the homes for former girl soldiers.

Fortunately, we say with great relief that all the children were attending school when it happened. The building, however, was severely damaged and all of the girls in the cottage lost their belongings. We are estimating that between electrical repairs (electricity is out for the entire compound), windows, doors, rafters, roofing, beds, furniture, clothing, and blankets, we have close to $30,000 in repairs.

For many of these former child soldiers, this home was the only sense of peace and safety they had ever known. Help us restore it to them!

Obviously, this is a big need, but when friends band together and take on small portions of it, we can get it covered!