Team Tasfa now has 28 people traveling to Ethiopia in 69 DAYS!!. There are currently approximately 57 orphans we will be helping as well as an additional 10 vulnerable children. Below is some great information from Team Tasfa's social worker, Sharon Bonnett. Please read and sponsor one of Shantos orphans if you can.
Here is US-FOVC's first official communication regarding the orphan sponsorship program!
Thank you for your interest in sponsoring a child through Friends of Orphans and Vulnerable Children (FOVC) in Shanto, Ethiopia. It is my great pleasure to announce that FOVC is ready to get the sponsorship program off the ground!
The past couple of months, US-FOVC has been in the process of developing the sponsorship program and anticipated beginning the sponsorship program in January 2011. It has come to our attention that the need for sponsorships to begin is very urgent. FOVC-Ethiopia is currently responsible for 57 orphaned children in Shanto. Twenty-four of these children joined FOVC in mid-September after the local government, seeing the work done by FOVC, requested that these children be admitted into the program. While we are thankful that the local government is supportive of FOVC's projects and is seeking help for the children in their community, the admittance of 24 new children has placed a significant burden on FOVC. FOVC-Ethiopia's Executive Director, Desalegn Daka, reported that these children "need immediate support to sustain their lives." Because of this, we feel it is in the children's best interest to begin the sponsorship program and not wait until after Team Tasfa travels in December.
All 57 children are in need of sponsors. $35 a month will provide a child with food, clothing, education and medical care. Sponsorships help children living in poverty begin to break the cycle of poverty and hunger through education As a sponsor, you will receive photos and biographical information of your child, and the opportunity to communicate with your child 3 times per year. It is our hope that a long term relationship will develop between children and their sponsors.
Your tax-deductible gift will have immediate impact and will offer hope to a child desperately in need. Please contact me at followingthewayhome@gmail.com for more information or to begin your sponsorship.
Seeking the best for children of Shanto,
Sharon Bonnett
FOVC Social Worker
http://fovcethiopia.wordpress.com/
