Alright, my friends...We need about $12,000 for an *emergency* bathroom renovation for 75 abandoned kids at the Kimbondo Orphanage in Kinshasa. (And, kismet willing, another $12,000 to greatly enhance a very crowded and fairly dank pair of sleeping quarters.)
Our friends at Lantern Projects will be accepting your donations (which are US tax-deductible) and safely transmitting them to Madlen in Kinshasa. You can donate here:
If you want to know why you should have faith in this project, please pore over the earlier blog entries to learn how we brought an even more daunting $27,000 building project in *at budget* last year. The D.R. Congo is not an easy place to make this sort of thing happen, but we know the right person.
Last time, ~120 donors gave us $27,000 with donations ranging from a few dollars to a couple thousand. This time around, $4 will buy us a KG of nails, $22 will buy us a half-ton of sand (!), $60 will buy us one of six toilet stalls, $150 will pay for the electricians' labor, and $1,100 will buy us a truckload of gravel.
Thanks for your consideration. I have pre-wired Madlen some of the money so that she can get started and beat the ever-present force of inflation that the D.R. Congo is facing.
Our friends at Lantern Projects will be accepting your donations (which are US tax-deductible) and safely transmitting them to Madlen in Kinshasa. You can donate here:
If you want to know why you should have faith in this project, please pore over the earlier blog entries to learn how we brought an even more daunting $27,000 building project in *at budget* last year. The D.R. Congo is not an easy place to make this sort of thing happen, but we know the right person.
Last time, ~120 donors gave us $27,000 with donations ranging from a few dollars to a couple thousand. This time around, $4 will buy us a KG of nails, $22 will buy us a half-ton of sand (!), $60 will buy us one of six toilet stalls, $150 will pay for the electricians' labor, and $1,100 will buy us a truckload of gravel.
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Thanks for your consideration. I have pre-wired Madlen some of the money so that she can get started and beat the ever-present force of inflation that the D.R. Congo is facing.
It is an honor to be able to participate in making the world a better place. I AM GLAD to know they are getting their facilities fixed.
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