We are Blessed to be a Blessing...: What do you need?

Saturday, February 5

What do you need?

I have been getting this question a lot lately.... What do you need for your donations to the people of Ethiopia? Well, I WANT Veggie Tale DVDs and 50 more punch bags for Kolfe. I WANT soccer style/themed shirts for Kolfe. But at this point, Kolfe may get overlooked a bit in my luggage...

My sweet friend Nickie has been here for hours and hours this week helping me tackle the luggage. We sorted through boxes and boxes of baby clothes... keeping only the things that were new or great shape, and tossed the rest. In the process we had a blast, and laughed until it hurt, but that's another story.

Boxes collected by a friend, and ready to
be sorted, washed, folded and packed.

After she left, I washed 5 really large loads of clothing sized 0-5, and baby blankets galore.... and emailed Christy a sweet friend who's family has started Embracing Hope Ethiopia to tell her that if she wanted the clothing, blankets and formula that I had, it was hers to use for the people of Korah who live around the garbage dump.

Life at Korah.... it's worse than you and I can imagine.

Christy and her husband are in the process of opening a Day Care Center for Korah, so that the people there might have a chance to get a job, rather than dig through the trash each day for things to eat and sell. YES, it's that bad.

Her response... "I cried when I read your email." She went on to say that so far, they have 1 blanket (soon to be over 30!) Someone had suggested that I just buy formula while there... her response, "We'll have babies to feed, and I've been told that US formula is better nutritionally than formula here, so it would be great to have that, especially to give to any babies that might be sick or undernourished." Babies whose mom's have little to no food do not get adequate nutrition being breast fed.

Forgive me for jumping around a bit, but here's the bottom line in all of this....

Ready for the laundry...

I can take a backpack, carry-on, and two 50 pound bags for free.

Nickie and I folded, sorted and packaged up 50 lbs of clothing alone. I also have diapers and 25 pounds of baby formula for Korah. I have also been blessed with: 138 (with more coming) lunch sized raisin boxes (Kolfe), 12 DVDs (9 are Veggie Tales), 65 Soccer shirts (Kolfe and other Gladney orphanages), 46 Beach balls, 60 Punch Balls (still would like another 50 or so of these!), soccer balls and air pumps, Wig Out games, some children's books and magazines, and a few sponsor kid care packages. Isn't God GOOD!!!!!