You have all been AWESOME!
Over the past few months...
Tim, I and the Wade family have been on a mission to send orphanage donations to Ethiopia.
With God's abundance YOU answered our plea for the orphans of KVI Orphanage
and together we have made a difference!
We are now getting word that the KVI babies are wearing our diapers!
No more ripped sheets held together with onesies,
no more bleeding blistered bottoms!
no more bleeding blistered bottoms!
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts
and from the bottom of their bottoms :)
and from the bottom of their bottoms :)
We are THRILLED,
but know there are MANY MANY more orphanages that need our perseverance!
Fellow adoptive friends are hand-carrying the donations to the children.
No middle man,
just great adoptive families giving up luggage space for donations.
just great adoptive families giving up luggage space for donations.
We will do the same when we travel twice.
We hope to hand carry 400 lbs. of donations over the 2 trips.
Everything that you donated in the past has been shipped including over 2000 cloth diapers/covers.
SO...
You might think...
that's a good number of items, that should do it...
Well... in a country with 4.8 MILLION orphans that was a good start but we MUST continue.
Here we are again pleading on behalf of the children that can't help themselves.... asking for our generous friends to remember the Ethiopian orphans when you shop.
We need to restock...
We are calling on your generous hearts...
AGAIN!
AGAIN!
We are asking you to please-
Grab an extra tube of diaper rash cream, or some wipes when you are at Wal-Mart, Dollar Store, or Target. It doesn't take much as long as we are collectively working at this. Then either throw them in the orphan collection bins at LFCC(church) or hand them, send them to us and we will make certain they get to an Ethiopian orphanage, and who knows maybe even used on our baby girl.
Here is the list of desperately NEEDED items:
Remember:
Many times the only way some of these orphanages will get supplies is through donations...and every little bit helps! Here are some of the things we would really like to bring-and many of these things are super easy and simple to buy and pack:
o Multivitamins
o Tri-vi-sol (o to 6 months)
o Poly-vi-sol (6 months to 2 years)
o Chewable multi-vitamin (2 years to 9 years)
o Adult multivitamin (9 years plus)
o Tylenol (acetaminophen)
~Infants
~Children's
~Suppository
o Plastic disposable gloves
o Baby nose saline spray
o Neosporin
o Mouth and nose masks
o Benadryl liquid/elixir
o Permetherin for scabies
o Lice kits
o wipes
o cloth diapers
o plastic crib sheets
o plastic diaper covers
and good ol'cash~We are also hoping to bring money to buy formula, for the orphanages, once in country (it is the same cost and then we don't have to worry about packing it)
We LOVE you all and thank you for helping "the least of these".
God bless you for caring!
Love,
Angi & Tim
Great post Angi! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI would like to say that for those of you who have young children, this is a great opportunity to teach your children about giving. Each time you go to the store, have your child pick out a $1 item to donate. They could pick out a tube of diaper rash cream, or diaper pins, or a pair of socks, something small each time. River and I do this with the food pantry each time we go to Angell's. I think its a fun opportunity to teach our children about giving. : )