$30 A Month
FEEDS A CHILD and MORE!!
If you've ever considered how to make a big difference, with a limited budget, in the lives of
many children, sponsoring a Drop-in center for $30 a month is the
perfect opportunity!
Please help! Currently we have more children than sponsors. We need at least 100 more sponsors to provide the care and assistance needed!
Drop-in Centers are feeding each child 2 meals a day, and helping provide education, in Peru and Colombia, for only $30 a month.
Drop-in Centers are about feeding children and much more! Above are some of the images captured by our friend Rachel Thurston while visiting Colombian Drop-in centers. Children in the centers are registered in school, provided with skill training, psychological care and a place to wash clothes and bathe.
Your $30 a month will provide all this for a child. Please start making the difference today.
To sponsor a Drop-in center, go to the sponsorship page at www.sxhu.org or
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Spotlight:
The Life of Gabriel
By Gabriel
(Dictated to & translated by 2007-08 Summer School Teacher Colleen Burns)
Who am I?
I am Gabriel. I am six years old. I like to draw animals. I also like to play with balls. I like soccer a lot. I like to eat chicken, rice, milk, and beef.
Before The Sunflower
I was born in Patia. I grew up in Cenipata. I lived with my mom. I was there with my sisters Wini and Zila. My sisters are good to me. We had to leave my house because we were poor. Now, it is happier.
Now
Every morning, I clean my room and eat breakfast. After breakfast, I work in the fields with Papi Juan. I cultivate the plants. I also play with my little car. In the afternoon, I play more with my sisters. I like The Sunflower because I like to play and there are toys here.
What is The Sunflower?
The Sunflower is an orphanage. Here we have beds, brooms, clothes, and combs. Here, I have brothers and sisters too. I like to play here with the balls and little cars.
My Future
In the future, I want to eat estofado (Peruvian dish) and guinea pig. I am going to work, but I don't know what I want to be. I want to live in Patia again. Maybe I will be a chef.
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Thank
you for being part of the Southern Cross Humanitarian Family. Bridging
cultures, awakening hopes and dreams-one child at a time- we will make
the world a better place.
Sincerely,
Laura Chabries-President
Jared Bryson -Vice President/Ex.Director
website: www.sxhu.org
email: laura@sxhu.org
Office: 1492 South 800 West, Suite A
Woods Cross, Utah 84087
For copies of newsletter, you can go to www.sxhu.org. All past issues are archived.
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Here is How to Make a HUGE Difference with No Cost to You!
Register your Albertsons Preferred Customer card with Southern Cross Humanitarian as your charity.
By doing so, Albertsons will donate 1-3% of all your purchases to
Southern Cross. This is a fundraiser where small amounts by many
people can truly make a big difference!
All you need to do is email your name, address, phone# & Preferred Card#, to Ken@sxhu.org or complete the registration form on our website on our "How Can I Help" page. Registering Albertson's cards of
friends, neighbors, relatives and co-workers is an easy, no cost way to support Southern Cross and spread the word.
This is also a great service opportunity for high school &
church youth groups as well as a qualifying Eagle Scout project:
register people in front of a local Albertsons store - for more
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Use PayPal for your donation !!
You can make a donation TODAY through PayPal, using your Visa, MC, Amex or Discover Credit Cards -- PayPal is an easy, safe, secure method of making donations.
After clicking the PayPal button, there are two ways to donate:
1) If you don't have a PayPal account (SKIP this section)
2) Using your CREDIT CARD
(Visa, MC, Amex, Discover)
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3) Please enter detail information for your donation in the messages field).
TO DONATE BY CHECK:
Mail to: Southern Cross Humanitarian
1492 South 800 West, Suite A
Woods Cross, Utah 84087 |
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"Being of evolving awareness, of course, means remembering we are one." Charlie Mabbott
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Microsoft's Technical Recognition Award Creates Charitable Donations!
Recipients of this year's Microsoft Award were asked to designate a charity (or charities) to receive donations in their honor. Brian and Katherine Hill chose to bestow $80,000 to Southern Cross Humanitarian to #1- Create a drop-in center for homeless children in Cochabamba, Bolivia and #2- Help fund our efforts to create an orphanage in Colombia. Our deepest thanks go to Microsoft and the Hills for this generous gift.
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Exciting Sunflower Updates!
Intern Team - Southern Cross is fortunate to have a well rounded team currently working with the children in the Sunflower Home. Nicki Hugie, a nurse, Lisa Valentino, a social worker, and Morgan Mark, a teacher.
Specifically - Nicki completed all the MMRs this week!!! (Mumps, measles & rubella vaccinations) Everyone let's celebrate! This is great news and took tons of jumps through bureaucratic hoops. Special thanks to Dr. Benton and Dr. Lourdes for their help working on the children's medical files.
BYU Interns - Three interns, from the BYU Los Andes Intern Program through the Kennedy Center, are at the Sunflower Home concentrating on the farm this month. Awesome opportunity for all of us! Thanks!
Chicken Coops - Our hard working June Expeditioneers were able to build chicken coops at the farm. We now have chickens who should start producing eggs within a few months.
For more information on internships, or for purchasing chickens for the farm, please contact laura@sxhu.org.
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Southern Cross Humanitarian Expeditions!
June Trip -
Our annual dental group, Wings World, brought
almost 30 students to volunteer their servicies in
communities
throughout the Sacred Valley and at the Sunflower home. Almost 30 other humanitarian hearted volunteers,
from California, Northern ID and the High Schools in the
SLC area, painted school rooms, donated shelving for the donations
room, built chicken coops, worked on the farm and much, much more!
Thanks to everyone for your amazing efforts!
Enjoy the June Expedition by viewing the Pennington's Peru Trip on YouTube: Peru Penningtons!
Take a look at more photos and past expeditions by viewing photos on our assisted page:www.Easysite.com/SouthernCrossHumanitarian
First AYS Groups in July - Alliance
for Youth Service (AYS) is a non-profit service organization for youth
ages 16-19. By day they have been working to help the children of
Tucson, a high mountain Andean community about 6 to 7 miles from Pisaq.
Education and hygiene are the immediate focus. Since there is no
vehicle access, conditions are rough, but the work is progressing. In
the evenings they have had numerous group activities with the Sunflower
children. Thanks AYS for all you are accomplishing!
August Trip Full - So how about the holidays? Give
your family, thus yourself, the present of a lifetime and head for the
Sacred Valley of the Incas this coming December. There you'll
experience the joy of working alongside the children of the Sunflower
Home and people in surrounding communities. As an added bonus, you'll
have the New Years party like no other!
To send in your applications, simply go to Expeditions at www.SouthernCrossHumanitarian.org for information. Please feel free to contact us with any additional questions.
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Join the Fun with Southern Cross!
July 12th - Cabaret Night! 3rd Sunflower Benefit Cabaret, in Wilmington Delaware. Email for directions - sunflowerbenefit@gmail.com.
July- September - Online fundraiser: Karen and Gary Aukema, Chapter Presidents in FL, are contributing 50% of their wedding accessory website sales! So, if you need a wedding gift, anniversary gift, birthday gift, or are planning a wedding, go ahead and check out the website and contribute to Southern Cross Humanitarian at the same time!
www.weddinggiftsandinvitations.com
July 25th - Peruvian Festival! Rhythms, Colors and Flavors from Peru! The
Peruvian Celebration will be held at the Garden Center in Sugar House Park, from 3p.m. until 9p.m. Enjoy the food, cultural
displays
and come say "hi" to us at our Southern Cross booth!
(If any of you would like to spend a few hours at the booth, please email laura@sxhu.org.) You can buy a donated bike for $30 with all proceeds going to Southern Cross. For more information go to: utahperu@hotmail.com
September 26th - Southern Cross Humanitarian Reunion & Fundraising Banquet! Please mark your calendars!
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Heartbeats!
"When people donate their time, they are giving of their valuable
heartbeats"
· Hannah, 12, of Mountain View, CA, is here with the hats she knitted for newborn kits and children at the home.
· Good Hands with Allstate is right! Big thanks to Dennis Wixom, a local SLC, UT. agent, who again utilized The Allstate Foundation to secure grant money for Southern Cross Humanitarian. Please check to see if your organization has something similar.
· After reading "The Sunflower", Heather Curtis, of Michigan, decided to create her own facebook to help the Sunflower Home. Check it out and thanks Heather!
· Extras from the June Expedition - Thanks to the Alcatraz family for their willingness to drive donation items all around No. Cal. Thanks to the Daily's for helping to chaperone teenagers. Thanks to the Parsons for donating the funds to tile the comedor (cafeteria) floor. Thanks to Dr. Benton for helping with all the children's medical records and thanks to the Pennington's for the extra help up in Tuscan.
· Emily (4) and Hannah (6), of Los Altos, CA, have decided, along with their family, to donate some of their favorite books they found written in Spanish to Southern Cross They are obviously excited to be helping out! Thank you girls!
Thank you all for your support and for communicating your desires and efforts in helping Southern Cross Humanitarian. THANKS! laura@sxhu.org.
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Putting
in your 2 cents can make a big difference! Bookmarking and using
GoodSearch, an internet search engine powered by Yahoo, is a great no
cost way to help SXHU! Just enter Southern Cross Humanitarian for your
donation in the messages field and you're ready to search. It costs you nothing, but each time you search they pay Southern Cross Humanitarian a penny.
Email everyone in your address book and ask them to use goodsearch to benefit the orphans in Peru. 200 searches a day will help us earn enough to support a child at the Sunflower each year.
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