Give 30 Orphaned Children a Sustainable Income

We hope you had a Merry Christmas and thanks so much to everyone who has set up recurring donations following our appeal on the 20th!

Today, we’re looking back on 2013. It’s been a fantastic year. Thanks to donors worldwide, we gave the orphanage’s existing kids the education, food, safe home, and enriching activities they need to grow into tomorrow’s leaders. In fact, the year went so well we were  able to welcome three new children.

Those new kids, like Kristelle, had an incredibly difficult 2013. But thanks to our global network of supporters just like you, they have a safe, loving home – and they’ve had a Merry Christmas completely with a visit from Santa and a Turkey dinner.

Even better, the the orphanage has been able to launch a business selling eggs! Starting the orphanage’s chicken business is a huge step, and egg sales will start soon.

But we still don’t have the funding we need to launch the orphanage’s bus business. Without the bus business, the orphanage will remain predominantly reliant on international aid.

This New Year, we hope you’ll resolve to help us give kids like Kristelle a secure future by setting up a monthly donation for 2014. When you set up your recurring donation before the ball drops and 2014 begins, GlobalGiving will match your gift.

Set up your monthly donation here 

If you’re not ready to commit to a monthly donation, your one-off donation, whatever its size, will be gratefully received.

Thanks so much, and we wish you a very Happy New Year!

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• Learn more about our work with the orphanage

Fantastic news! Since our last update, generous donors just like you gave a wonderful $5,000 to help the HTDC orphanage launch its own small business selling chicken eggs.

The profits from those eggs will help the orphanage’s leaders give children like Gusline a secure future. Like so many of the kids in the orphanage’s care, Gusline’s parents abandoned her. There is no record of her birth or her early childhood. Without the orphanage, she would be homeless, completely undocumented, and vulnerable.

But in the orphanage’s care, she’s blossomed into a healthy, happy four year old girl who loves dresses and playing with her brother Isaac. 

The orphanage is working toward self-sufficiency, but on their own the chicken eggs will only yield a small profit. They need both the egg business and the bus business to cut their dependence on international aid in half.

This Christmas, you can give Gusline and all the children in the orphanage’s care the gift of security by setting up a recurring donation. When you create your recurring donation between today and New Year’s Eve, GlobalGiving will match your donation!

Your gift of just $10 a month will bring us ever closer to the self-sufficient HTDC that the orphanage leaders envision.

Set up your monthly donation here 

Not ready to commit to a monthly donation? No problem. Your donation, whatever its size, will be gratefully received.

Thanks so very much - and, if you’re celebrating this year, we wish you a very Merry Christmas!