Hope everyone has a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend!
We have so much respect for all of the mothers who do everything they can to provide for their children. If you’d like to help a mom in a developing country send her child to school, you can find a child to sponsor this weekend.
A glimpse into the slums of Haiti. Here, we drove through Cite Soleil last week, where families live among rubble in homes made of little more than sheet metal. One of the videos we’re working on will focus on the living conditions of the people in Haiti and how we’re building new shelters for them. #HaitiFilmingTrip
Our videographer, Kylie Turley, filming inside a Good Neighbors school in Wharf Jeremie, Haiti last week. The footage is part of two documentary shorts we’re producing on a community of 300 children who will be available for sponsorship in June.
Learn more about our current child sponsorship program.
We sent a filming team to Haiti last week! We had a great time meeting the children and filming their stories, and can’t wait to share the videos with you soon. Until then, we’ll be sharing a few pictures each day from our trip…starting with this one, which was taken during our first visit to a school in Oranger, Haiti. Loved spending time with these bright, adorable kids.
Friday night was the opening of our Water For Life photo exhibit, featuring pictures from our November trip to Chad, Africa to build clean water wells! Pictured here: Our Program Coordinator Luigi, Managing Editor Celeste, and Fundraising Intern Sayuri having a great time working the event.
Learn more about how we’re bringing clean water to Africa.
Very excited to announce that we’re sending our Managing Editor Celeste Hoang, Videographer Kylie Turley, and Photographer Mimi Yip out to Haiti this month to make two documentary shorts! They will be photographing and filming the stories of children and communities we’ll be supporting starting this summer. The team will be there from April 22-April 30 and we look forward to sharing updates with you during that time!
Learn more about Good Neighbors Haiti.
Our Dominican Republic office started medical exams for sponsored children this week! Doctors gave check-ups and made sure parents understood the importance of good hygiene for kids, such as brushing teeth and washing hands.
If you’re interested in sponsoring a child and providing him/her with healthcare and more, go here.
We just love this beautiful video on child sponsorship, filmed by the talented Kylie Turley. Watch now to see how making a commitment of $35/month will change a child’s life in every way.
Then, find a child to sponsor here.
One of our most unique projects is building new cookstoves in Guatemala. It makes an incredible difference: kids go to school instead of spending the day gathering wood, homes are smoke-free, and families can enjoy clean, healthy food.
Want to build one of these cookstoves? We’re sending a team of volunteers to Guatemala for a week this summer. Trips departing from LA and Washington, D.C.
Thanks to everyone who liked, shared, and donated to our Water For Life project in honor of UN-Water World Water Day Friday!
There’s still time to get involved! Learn how we build water wells that serve thousands for up to 21 years.
Tomorrow is UN-Water World Water Day! We’re celebrating by featuring our Water For Life project, which provides water wells to villages in Africa. You can help build a well for as little as $10! We track every donation and you’ll receive proof of a completed well once it’s built.
Give here.
Happy first day of Spring! Start this beautiful season off by helping send a child to school for $35/month. You’ll cover their tuition, lunchtime meals, books, and more. Find a child to support here.
We had a great time at our staff seminar last week! There were presentations, discussions, and group brainstorming on how our non-profit could make an even bigger impact in the world. On Thursday, we met at the Fuller Guest Center in Pasadena, CA for a conference, enjoyed delicious tacos for lunch at Norma’s Tacos, and then topped the week off with a scavenger hunt on Friday. Some of the challenges included taking a reflection picture, walking a stranger’s dog, and piling into a small space. It was a great team-building day and a wonderful end to our staff seminar week!
Birth in a Refugee Camp
Babies are born almost every day in Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Saqer, pictured with his older brother and sister, is one of them.His mother did not want to leave Syria but the bombs forced her when she was 7 months pregnant. Now we’re helping her, and expectant mothers like her, cope. Learn how http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/jordan_68014.html
© UNICEF Jordan/2013/Masciarelli
