Fundraising Year is Coming to an End

It has been truly remarkable, what generosity we have seen at the Davis UU Church this year. Our hopes have been far exceeded and we have, as of May 23, raised $4,171 for Haiti. It's amazing! And wonderful! We still have one Social Service Sunday to go, this Sunday, where the kids will get sponsors and do a Sport-a-thon (if we don't get rained out!). Every jumping jack, basketball basket, and cartwheel will be counted and the kids will turn in their money the following week at the end-of-year carnival! They did the Sport-a-thon last year when we raised money for Solar Cookers International, and it was a big hit.

We would also very much like to try and do one more church lunch sale sometime in June, for one last punch to the Haiti Fund! We know everyone at church likes to eat! :)

Over at the Haiti Rescue Center, things are unfortunately very busy in their Cholera House.

They have seen a huge spike in cholera patients recently and are going through dozens of CASES of IV fluids in 24 hours.

Cholera is not so much in the news anymore, here in the US, and frankly I kind of thought it was fading. But after reading the Rescue Center blog, it is most definitely not. Please go check out their recent posts. It's very sobering. These are things that happen in our world that our privileged children need to see. These are illnesses they will never know about, most likely, in our society. But they need to know that it exists, it's real, and in our web of life, the children of Haiti are just a strand or two away from us.

Here is a quote from the blog:
We need gowns for the kids.

The lady in the blue dress in the picture worked a 13 hour shift today.  When she got off she came and told us we needed some more gowns.  I told her we would find someone in the village to sew them tomorrow.  She wanted to go find someone to sew the gowns, so they would not charge us to much money.  She just spend another hour walking and finding two people to begin sewing the gowns.  She wants to save as much money as she could so we could have funds to buy other supplies.  We are going to cut up plain white sheet that we have in the clinic for material.  We can get a dozen sewed for $17.50.  I would like to have 7 dozen that would be $122.50 for 84 gowns.

The Rescue Center always has opportunities for people to send things that they need. What can you do to help? Even the smallest thing might be the biggest help! Your donations have certainly been a huge help, I am still amazed at how much has been raised so far! You guys are awesome!

We will update you again when we have a new total!

Blessed be...