These are the girls we met when we visited Children's Heaven in June.
Wouldn't you just LOVE to buy a Christmas gift for her?
How about her?
Or maybe her?
You can! Christmas (or Gena in Amharic) is celebrated on January 7. Most children will not get Christmas gifts, but you could ensure that one or two or five do.
Here is how:
Gena Giving Project - 130 backpacks to children in Ethiopia from Ethiopian Orphan Relief, Inc. on Vimeo.
You can email kim@ethiopianorphanrelief.org to request a child - girl or boy. She will send you a child's initials, gender, and age. Then you get to go shopping!
Or you can leaving the shopping up to her and just sent a $15 check. Did you get that? $15 to give a child what may be her first Christmas gift ever!
My kids and I will be shopping for D.A a 6 year old boy sponsored by FOVC (Friends of Vulnerable Children), B.A. (maybe DA's brother???) an 8 year old boy also sponsored by FOVC, a 9 year old girl M.T. sponsored by Children's Heaven, a 13 year old girl A.T. sponsored by Children's Heaven, and a 16 year old girl A.A.G sponsored by Children's Heaven. We will also be sending them a personal card/letter with our prayers and wishes for them.
If you include your address, they will send you a photo of the kids receiving their gifts. I love that because it becomes personal all the way around - they will see us and we will see them. So cool!
If you would like more information about this project email Kim, myself, or check out
http://ethiopianorphanrelief.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-gena/
to learn more.
Does this not sound more exciting than buying gifts for friends and family members that already have everything they need and you have to wrack your brain to think of something... anything to buy them? It sure does to me!
