New Children at Sunflower Home & Hungry Kids:
Carlos, seen here practicing new soccer moves (a rainbow?) on the lawn at the Sunflower Home, is one of the boys who have moved over from Colibri and is among 8 new children at our home.
Ten more are on waiting lists, and we need your help. Southern Cross makes every effort to obtain legal guardianship of children before assigning them to sponsors, yet we still incur the costs of providing housing, food, clothes school and medical costs. Right now we have a family of 6, the youngest 2 the oldest 15 and mute, found with no parents or food living in horrid conditions. The other 4 on our list are in similar circumstances.... all hungry and in dire need. We have decided to try and help them now, not after the judge gets around to signing the documents and we are able to find them sponsors!
Please consider contacting family, co-workers and friends to help support these "transitional children", by sponsoring a room or making donations to the general fund. Together we will help all these children.
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Thank you for being part of the Southern Cross Humanitarian Family. Building bridges, awakening hopes and dreams - one child at a time, we can make the world a better place.
Sincerely,
Laura Mabbott-President
website: www.sxhu.org
expeditions:laura@sxhu.org
general: laura@sxhu.org
Office:
2607 E. Casto Lane,
Salt Lake City, UT 84117
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Greetings,
February is a month for celebrating love: family, friends, God & country, neighbors, pets, everyone! We at Southern Cross want you to know how much we appreciate and love all you do to rescue homeless children and provide places of refuge, love, security and hope.
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You see here the happy winners for the new weekly point system. Children are awarded points for clean doors, brushing their teeth, engaged reading and other daily chores. Points are tallied at the end of the week, and the winners get to hop on the bus with Colleen and pick their own flavor ice-cream in Urabamba! It is rumored that competiton is fierce!
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A new bilingual picture book will be helping our children in Peru. Karl Beckstand, author and illustrator of Crumbs on the Stairs, is donating $1 from all his Feb. book sales to Southern Cross Humanitarian, as well as copies of his book.
We thank Karl for his donations. His book can be found at Amazon, or by going to http://gozobooks.com/. |
· Our sweet Mayda (on the right) was in the hospital this week. Fortunately nothing serious happened thanks to our quick thinking Sunflower helpers. We knew she was okay when upon realizing there were delivering mother's in the next room she asked, "Is the bag that the baby grows in made of plastic?"
· Summer School is progressing nicely either at the Sunflower with Colleen, or morning classes at the village school. Hijidia can now write her name, Adriel is learning trig., English in the afternoon is a big hit, reading after lunch seems to get ditched a lot, and some of the kids aren't doing their homework. All "normal" kid stuff.... ahhhh, that is nice to hear!
· Thanks to Stacie Byers and her friends, the gate for our security wall should be in place within a few weeks. The bathrooms are getting closer. Sometimes we have to choose between feeding kids and putting down tile. This picture shows happily feed kids. (-:)
· We'd love to get going on building the 3rd dorm, finishing the intern rooms so we can accommodate medical staff, teachers and other specialists to work with our children year round, construct the school and the Health/Admin. wing. If you're interested in doing a local fundraiser to help, please contact us for our Fundraising Packet. We'd sure love to help you help us!
Click here to request a fundraising packet
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 2007 Expeditions Schedules Available
It's time to schedule your 2007 Expedition. Check our website to review the available dates.
Put on your leather gloves, your South American dancing shoes, and a big old smile because an expedition to work with and visit the children at the Sunflower, or the people of Ecuador, is a never to be forgotten experience.
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 Heartbeats!
"When people donate their time, they are giving of their valuable heartbeats"
· Nancy Whittingham, of Ontario Canada, has organized the Peru Children's Orphanage Fund with the intention to raise $5000. She plans on visiting Peru and the orphanage 2-3 times per year with donations and coordinate bringing the services of other natural healthcare providers to the area.
· Leslie Chambers, of Morgan Hill, CA, is helping the children in her church make a difference with chore charts - "the kids will take them home and mark off everytime they make their bed, sweep the floor, vaccuum, dust ....their charts earn Monopoly Money to buy something for the children at the orphanage."
· Michael Benjamin, of Boise,ID, brought us Goodsearch.com. It may seem like pennies to you, but together we can raise enough money each month to support a child! Each cent counts! Thanks to all who are using Goodsearch!!!!!
· Jared Bryson of Bountiful, UT, is organizing a fundraising concert this coming April! Heritage Elementary 3rd Grade, West Jordan High School Concert Choir, West Jordan High School All Male T minus Ten Choir and Because We Sing (All male 195 chorus from Logan to Payson) will be the featured choirs. Author Richard Paul Evans will be the featured guest. Get ready to MARK YOUR CALENDARS and enjoy a fantastic evening with famliy and friends. Updated information will be in the March newsletter. If you'd like to volunteer to help with this event or would like to know more, you can contact Jared at: jaredbryson@gmail.com.
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Goodsearch is an internet search engine powered by Yahoo.
It costs you nothing, but for each search performed they will pay us a penny. It may not seem like much, but 200 searches a day will help us earn enough to support a child at the Sunflower.
Email everyone in your address book and ask them to use goodsearch to benefit the orphans in Peru. Enter "Southern Cross Humanitarian" as your charity of choice.
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Expedition Tax Information
(If you have a tax advisor, its best to check with them regarding your personal tax situation)
Expedition:
· If over half the time is spent at the orphange (which our expeditions do), the entire airfare is deductible.
· Cost of side trips should be deducted from the expedition total, since only expenses related to the voluntary portion are deductible.
. For Machu Pichu & the jungle, the cost is about $400.
. For Machu Pichu & Lake Titicaca, the cost is about $300.
General Donations:
· For donations to Southern Cross Humanitarian, you can use your thank you letters or cancelled checks for your tax files. If you have not received a thank you letter for your donation, we apologize, and will gladly send us one if you just let us know."
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2607 Casto Lane,
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We All Scream for Ice Cream!
