Every Minute of Every Day in the USA

$848,555 is spent on advertising
$665,905 is spent on legal gambling ...
$199,701 is speng on alcohol ...
$ 72,300 is spent on hair care ...
$ 66,590 is spent on bottled water ...
$ 60,882 is spent by cheerleaders on their sport ...
$ 34,246 is spent on cosmetics ...
$ 28,538 is spent on flowers ...
$ 28,538 is spent on perfume ...
$ 19,205 is spent on Prozac ...
$   1,902 is spent to purchase butterflies ...


2,137 pounds of popcorn is consumed ...
21,000 pizzas are purchased ...
1,000 cell phones are sold ...

AND -

30 more children become orphaned 

Only $15 a month will feed an orphan every day.

$ .50 a day or less than 4/100 of a penny per minute.

Pocket change CAN save a life.

What do you have in YOUR pocket?

http://www.foodfororphans.org/

Tony and AJ

Brothers Tony and AJ are the best of friends.

They can't afford not to be since their parents died three years ago.

When their mother got sick, neighbors carried her away to a far off clinic. The boys came to visit her one morning and were told she had died. 

That's all.

Not,

"we're here to help you"

or

"come with us and we'll care for you"

or

"we'll take you to a foster home"

They were given no help at all.

Now the two boys live alone, barely surviving.

Their relatives were supportive at first, but eventually focused on their own lives.

Their uncle lives just across the road, but rarely helps them. Sometimes the boys go days without food.


Stories like these are stories we hear all the time when we talk with our orphanages. We would like to help ALL the orphans, but our donations only go so far.

You can help with a donation of on $15 each month. $15 will feed one orphan every day for a month. Won't you pledge to help just one little boy like Tony or AJ?


$15 is all it takes...the cost of eating one meal at a restaurant.


Visit http://www.foodfororphans.org/ or call 719-591-7777 and make your donation now.

Travel to Dominican Republic with Stephen Baldwin!!

This is a Special Invitation

from actor

Stephen Baldwin

“I and my family are planning to visit the Food for Orphans projects in the Dominican Republic … and I want you to join us. It’s going to be a lot of fun. There are only 20 spots left ... so sign-up now!”

The trip planned to the Dominican Republic is for Aug 9 – 13.

Cost: $865.00 plus airfare (Ground package covers double occupancy hotel room, all meals, bottled water, in-country transportation, translator, tours & museum fees, special dinner for orphans, and travel insurance.)

Itinerary:

• Aug 9: Travel to DR
• Aug 10: Visit orphanages; visit home for abandoned children of prostitutes, serve a special dinner to AIDS orphans
• Aug 11: Visit orphanages, visit children living at city dump, basketball with teen boy orphans
• Aug 12: Sightseeing, visit to very old fort, tour museum, shopping, free time
• Aug 13: Fly home

 Deadlines:

• May 30: A non-refundable $200 deposit per person must be received
• June 10: Air fare must be paid-in-full (However, you may make your own flight arrangements.)
• July 9: The remainder of the ground package must be paid-in-full

There’s not much time left, so RSVP immediately by calling 719-591-7777 or email info@foodfororphans.org.

You won’t find a more loved child anywhere in the world than
 Esmeralda. 

Many of you have been praying for this abandoned child who was left to die. This is an update to our post on December 10, 2009.

Review:

Esmeralda was conceived as the result of a brutal rape. Her pregnant mother tried to kill her by drinking a bottle of aspirin. Born blind with only one fourth of a brain, Esmeralda was given no hope. The doctors gave up on her, saying that she would be dead in less than one year ... and her mother abandoned her.

Last year, Esmeralda was in poor health. Taken off of life support, she was released by the doctors to go home to die. When we saw her in February, she was so frail and weak, we felt like she only had hours to live.

Update:

When the doctors removed all medicine and all life support, by a miracle, she did not die. This little girl, now 5 years old, became a fighter. She started to improve immediately, and Esmeralda is now recovering.

Today Casa Luz is her home again. The orphans, workers and volunteers are taking care of her with as much pampering as possible.

Continue to pray for Esmeralda … her fight is not yet over. Neither is her future.

If you would like to contribute toward Esmeralda's care, go to http://www.foodfororphans.org/ and make an online donation or call 719-591-7777 and talk to Gary.