Friday, May 7, 2010

PARTY! and other news

I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about our fundraising efforts and other activities coming up.

Our big fundraiser will be held on July 3rd. It's going to be a really fun and family-oriented party to celebrate Independence Day. Lots of fun activities and tasty food. More details later, but mark your calendars and plan to attend. We're trying to raise money to support the extracurricular programming at the orphanage: music lessons, arts lessons, sports activities. We'd also like to raise some support to cover the travel costs of some folks going with us.

Thanks to some very generous donors, we received the balance of the money we needed for the life skills training course for the orphanage graduates to be held in June. This course is a great opportunity for the kids to learn about what they'll face in real life once they leave the orphanage.

We're planning to visit Sovietsk early this coming fall. We have a few spots open and we'd love to have you come along.

There are still plenty of kids without sponsors or pen pals. And there are lots of other ways to get involved in making life better for these great kids. Just let us know what you'd like to do.

2 comments:

Matt and Carla Morgan said...

The calendar is marked!

Unknown said...

Sounds like so much fun! Let me know if there is anything I can do to help out. I won't be able to attend because my brother is getting married that day! But, I will do whatever I can to help! -Heather-