The upcoming International Summer Games are hosted in Rio this summer and the government needed to make choices. Recently, the government cut 50% of its funding to social programs. As a result, at one orphanage, girls will have to leave. The orphanage can only afford to house and care for 25 girls now.
Orfanato Santa Rita de Cassia
Rua Florianopolis, 1.305 - Praca Seca - Jacarepagua
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Global Potential (www.global-potential.org) is an innovative program that empowers and trains low-income minority Brooklyn youth in vocational and life skills, global citizenship and leadership, and social entrepreneurship. The youth then travel to volunteer for six weeks in a poor rural area in the Dominican Republic to build a classroom, rebuild homes of families affected by hurricane, teach health and hygiene classes in the community, and help the women's association with generating income for their families by raising goats. The students will then return to New York and implement the experience they have gained abroad and use social entrepreneurship ventures to take charge of addressing their own urban community's needs, all while increasing their own employability.
Global Potential
Executive Director: Frank Cohn
Web: www.global-potential.org
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Rancho Milagro is a Children's Home is Mexico that serves as a refuge for children meeting their needs and providing future hope. Frequently, AAI visits Rancho Milagro through our trips.
On our last mission, Rancho Milagro care takers explained that they need help covering their monthly electric bill. If you would like to help, please click the Donate Button and indicate Mexico-
Monthly Electric Bill in the Memo Section.
To Read About the Rancho Milagro Wish List, please see the April Mexico Story From The Field.
Thank you for your generosity!
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New Orleans, Louisiana Playground |
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Help send the Aguilar children to camp this summer!
Do you remember how great it was to go to summer camp? You made new friends, had exciting adventures, stayed up late telling stories and eating popcorn!
Maria, Renee and Roberto are three amazing children that deserve the chance to experience some camp fun. They survived Hurricane Katrina and have been living in a Fema trailer for the last 2 years and haven't had much time to just be kids. Summer camp would be just the place to do that and I'd like to ask for your help.
The Aguilars are a warm and generous family whose story of survival and determination to hold their family together has inspired me. Their lives are never going to be the same and after meeting them, neither will mine. This is why I want to give the Aguilar children someplace they can go this summer, and hopefully for years to come, where they can feel safe, make new friends, learn new skills, and where they can discover their potential and what amazing young people they are.
The Aguilar children's story is an amazing one. They are wonderful kids that have been through something that no one should ever have to go through and they deserve some time this summer to just go out and be kids. I would be so grateful for any donation you could provide to send the Aguilar children to camp this summer.
To Help Summer Dreams Come True for the Aguilars,
contact:
Kirsten Perkins at: scottandkirst@gmail.com
To join a New Orleans Trip, please browse the
New Orleans Brochure.
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Help us build a playground in St. Bernard Parish!
The houses are being rebuilt and the families are moving home but there is still something missing…a place for the children to play.
Not only were all of the homes in the St. Bernard Parish destroyed, so were all of the fields and playgrounds where children were able to play, pretend, discover and make new friends.
We want to provide them with a place to do that and you can help by making a donation to our playground fund.
A monetary donation, supplies, planning or labor are all welcome donations!
Please contact Kirstin Perkins at scottandkirst@gmail.com or 805-598-5751 to donate or for more information. |
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