Lots of learning to come!

Teamwork in action!

Newsletter Highlights include financial needs of today, a new dining room has been built complete with tables and benches, all 122 children boarded a bus with a picnic lunch and headed to the zoo for a class trip, and more!

Here is a wonderful update from Georges and Esther Sawadogo on the Paradise Orphanage complete with stories and pictures of the children.

The start of something new…

Newsletter highlights include children receiving new school uniforms from Canada, 1000 lbs of soup shipped from Ontario Christian Gleaners, surgery was a success for Guedalia, children help with fundraising and a trip planned for early 2013.

She is happy to open and close her hand following corrective hand surgery!

Ontario Christian Gleaners (http://ontariogleaners.org/) has agreed to provide 500 kgs of freeze dried soup to the Paradise Orphanage, free of charge, twice in 2012.

The following article was published on Newsday.com.

Newsletter highlights include 5 sewing machines purchased, a shelter/church constructed, a nurse hired to make weekly visits, medical supplies purchased, cement pad poured around the well, shoes purchased for all children, soup from Ontario Gleaners delivered, clothing distributed for children, staff and families, and sewing projects started.