La Familia is currently home to 28 children, two directors and five volunteers. We need at least one additional volunteer since Karly is leaving for college in January. The good news is that Murial (NY) is back and is semi permanent and is working with Alucy and Fremin from Colima and America, an 18-year-old single mother.
One of the challenges we face at La Familia is that many of the children come to the home never having attended school, so these children are behind their peers. In the town of Quecholac, where the children attend school, the directors are enrolling these students in an "Open School" that concentrates on bringing the children up to the grade level of their age group.
The directors, volunteers and children moved into their new home in August, but there is still a lot of work to do to outfit the home and make it suitable for more than just eating and sleeping. Our two top priorities are light fixtures for the living room ($800) and living room furniture ($3,000). A lower priority, but still needed is another refrigerator ($1,200).
To repay our loans and to complete construction on the first phase on the Palmarito campus, we need to raise the following:
Interior and exterior doors: $3,600
Plumbing and electrical work: 2,000
Additional tile: 5,000
Repay loan to Colima Church: 18,300
Repay loan to Colima orphanage: 3,960
Run water line from nearby well:2,000
TOTAL CAPITAL NEEDED: $34,860
Worship Services led by Juan Francisco Hernandez Garcia, Pastor & Director
Juan Pablo (4) newest child at La Familia
Arturo (14)(Oldest boy at La Familia) (Below Right)
Dylan (6)gets a pony ride
Missioner, Ruth Irvine, sews curtains in new casa hogar
JANUARY 2010 - A mission team from Church of the Redeemer, Greenville, SC wil travel to Palmarito, arriving January 14 and departing January 21, 2010. Thus far, ten missioners are firm.
AIRFARES - Roundtrip airfare from Charlotte to Mexico City with a stop in Houston ran $405 for January. Future teams may wish to keep this airfare in mind as you raise funds for mission trips in 2010.
DONATIONS - We need all the help we can get in fundraising. As you can see above, we still owe $34,860 to fully fund the first phase at Palmarito. St. Andrews Episcopal in Downers Grove, IL has committed $3,500 to assist with construction costs, so this makes a nice dint in our attempt to finish paying our bills.
If you have any funds left in your giving account in 2009, please make your check payable to Embrace the Dream Foundation, Inc., PO Box 5558, Greenville, SC 29606. All donors will receive a "tax letter" from Embrace the Dream, a 501 (c)(3)non profit organization. If not, please remember La Familia in 2010.
CREDIT CARD DONATIONS - On our Website: www.embracethedream.com, you may click on Donate Now and make donations by credit card.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of the good friends of La Familia. God Bless.
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