Happily, I don't have to wait much longer to be connected again. As I mentioned before I will be returning for 3 weeks in October. I'd like to depart on the 10th of October enabled through your donations to help accomplish the following things
$500 to get the oven working and making them money
$100-$200 to start a small craft business for the older girls (they made me a lovely crocheted bag of the Ghanaian flag earlier this year, I'm going to encourage them to make more that can be sold over here)
$2400(rough estimate to include the 20+ new children since I last made this purchase) to purchase a months supply of food for all 100 children living in the compound
$3000 for a down payment on land. They desperately need to move out of the compound they're currently living in and $3000 of a down-payment on land costing in total around $16,000 would enable Mama Jane to begin collecting local donations of cement, timber and workers to help get that project moving.
$1000 per month to pay necessary workers.
Other things we need include:
-Volunteers with business experience, ready and willing to help the organization be run more like a business.
-Volunteers in particular over the age of 25. We have a number of older children (20-23 years) who, understandably, have a hard time taking direction from volunteers years younger than them. If you're interested in volunteering please visit www.thepottersvillage.net and email Mama Jane directly.
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| Abena |
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| Yaya in her robe |
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| First day with the drums |
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| Bernice |
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| What? Who rolled around in the dirt? |
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| Prince beating his chest during football |
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| Sisters Akofa (face covered) and Bernice |
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| Bismark being fly |
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| Gifty and I |
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| Mercy and Francis |
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| Akos |
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| Emmanuel |
Inspired by a picture of my mother I showed the kids last year, here are a short series of the oft-attempted, oft-failed Junior Birdman. There are many more floating around on the interwebs, I'll make finding them my next misson.
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| Foster and Francis attempt Junior Birdman |
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| Bismark |
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| Anita's first attempt wasn't so grand |
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| Emmanuel wanted to show off his skills |
Aaaannd Ema's...9th attempt?
I finally figured out how to upload videos! It was embarrassingly easy. Regardless, enjoy.
Godwyn playing bubbles with Papa John
A troupe of kids singing that all-time VBS hit:
The Hippo Song
Boys carrying the drums to the orphanage for the first time. They had to stop about 15 feet out the gate to make sure they still worked.
Princilla jammin' to the drums
Thanks for reading! Any donations are welcome and appreciated :)
