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Funding for Centers in China - Making Progress
We wish to thank all of you who have so generously donated to help the special needs children in China (please read the article below about Li AiHua's surgery tomorrow). At the left you will find our fundraising thermometer showing how far we have come and how far we still need to go to fully fund the Changchun and Siping Centers. We have added over 50 new sponsors in the last two weeks, but we need a minimum of 100 additional sponsors to be able to keep both Centers open. Although this will allow us to keep the Centers open, it will not provide for those unexpected situations such as emergency medical care or repairs to the heat system when it is 10 below zero outside. To do that we need the full 330 sponsors. If we can find another 100 sponsors right now, it will prevent us from facing the possibility of having to send some of the children back to their orphanages before they are ready to go. We don't want to send them back while they still need special care to to the very orphanage that could not adequately care for them in the first place.
We had an email from a new sponsor last week that really clarifies the value of the $28 per month donation. She said she was out with her family eating dinner at an average family restaurant and realized they would pay an amount for one meal for their family that was more than the $28 sponsorship for one child. That places a whole different perspective on the value of that $28.
Cheryl and I sponsor 2 of the children. We know we all need to watch our pennies but we also know this will make a huge difference in the life of these children. We know that many of you may feel that your $28 is so small an amount that it can't possibly be significant. But $28 sent by 330 of you would be an incredible amount for the Centers!
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale
We hope you will decide to make the difference in the life of one of these children by Sponsoring A Child.
Dick and Cheryl Graham
IAAP
423-886-6986
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Li AiHua will undergo surgery on Friday, China time, (that is Thursday evening here) for repair of an imperforate anus. She needs your support and prayers to help her get through this very difficult time. The nannies at the Siping Center have done a great job of caring for her since she arrived there on May 22, 2007 as a two week old baby. They have done all they can to keep her healthy and help her grow strong enough for this surgery. Now it is all up to the surgeons.