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Around the World in 3 minutes
Greetings!
Join me as we take a trip around the world in this brief newsletter. We'll be featuring a local article, some national news, and on a global level, we'll share a little something from our trip to Africa. Buckle your seat belts, we're ready for take off. |
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Local Business to Partner with A Friend in Need to Help the Hungry!
Racine, WI
Dimples Fine Imports located at 416 N. Main Street in downtown Racine will be generously donating 10% of all non-sale purchases when you mention a Friend in Need at the register.
Dimples carries unique jewelry, clothing, handbags and other one-of-a-kind treasures from around the world. It's not too early to start thinking about Mother's Day.
Stop in today to check out their selection and don't forget to mention A Friend in Need! |
Lifelock working with AFIN
Phoenix, AZ
National company, Lifelock out of Phoenix Arizona, has generously offered to help support A Friend in Need's newest marketing campaign. They will be creating a high energy DVD that we can use at presentations to share what A Friend in Need is all about. Discussions are underway to revamp our website with their help and expertise. Lifelock is the industry leader in identity theft protection. We are excited to be making strides on a national basis to form strong partnerships with well recognized corporations! |
Where in the World is Kapunga?
Written by: Brenda Rebro
In an effort to find out how we can answer the biblical mandate to care for orphans and widows, co-founder, Heather Bliss and I just returned from a two-week visit to the continent of Africa. While there, we stayed in Nelspruit, South Africa with an organization called Hands at Work. This past year, A Friend in Need provided food distribution and holistic care kits to Hands at Work to distribute to the orphans in Africa.
After spending a week in South Africa, we took a 4 hour drive to Kapunga Swaziland. Swaziland is a mountainous country, slightly smaller than the state of New Jersey, and is home to just over 1 million people. Because the HIV prevelancy rate is over 38%, many adults are dying and leaving a generation to parent themselves. Forty percent of the population is under the age of fifteen (compare that to twenty percent in the U.S.)
Up on a mountain in Kapunga, we met Nomsa, a compassionate woman trying to make a difference to the orphans in her small community. For two days we walked the mountain with her, visiting children orphaned by AIDS. We met two beautiful girls, Noxalo (11) and Nothando (13).
Their mother had died in 2004 and their father in 2006. Because the girls are more concerned with where their next meal will come from, Nothando couldn't even remember her own birthday. Although it may seems like such a trivial thing, it breaks our hearts to see children who aren't free to simply be children and anticipate their upcoming birthday. These children must struggle to survive every day.
Watch for our next newsletter to learn how you can help orphans like Noxalo and Nothando. In the meantime, click here to see more pictures. |
| Heather Bliss & Brenda Rebro
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Ave Life Expectancy
US: 78 years
Swaziland: 32 years
Source: CIA World Factbook
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Our Vision & Mission
A Friend in Need is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to help secure the future of humanity both locally and globally by helping to provide five basic human rights: food, shelter, clean water, health care and education to individuals and communities in need. We do this through community fundraisers, research and advocacy. |
| St. Lucy's children participate in a service project of global proportions
In March, St. Lucy's Students walked 6000 steps for the 6000 children that lose a parent to AIDS every day. The childen raised $3800 in pledges to help the orphans.
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