Hi all,
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We've added a new button to the website, "Let's Build A School!" so that visitors can learn more about our hope to help finish the high school in Pestel. Please feel free to pass this along:
Thanks to all who have donated!
Some highlights from 2013 (so far! :)
- January--Purchased 6 motor cycles for the field health workers. Reports from our last Vitamin A campaign showed that their effectiveness increased by at least 30%
- March--Miss World Team & Variety International traveled to Pestel & produced a moving video of their experiences. We stay at the new Guest House in Ferier with Sisters Fidelis, Jo and Vicky!
- April--Well-drilling effort undertaken but unsuccessful. Water Missions International begins Plan B approach.
- May--Variety International pledged to increase their annual commitment to bring the 19 field health workers back up to full time status!!
- June--Thriving Villages gets a new website thanks to the hard work of individuals at Deloitte! Thanks especially to Sheldon who continues to maintain it!!
- August--Field health workers begin widespread immunization effort throughout all of Pestel for the first time! Kids in Pestel are still dying from preventable diseases like tetanus, but we are now addressing this.
- September--Miss World Team has raised substantial funds to help kick-off a 'pilot' project in Duchity (southern aspect of Pestel region) in conjunction with John Ball's team!! Efforts to begin in full force in January. Effort aims to reach 2000 households with an entrepreneurial-based approach to providing household ceramic water filters.
- November--Miss World Team revisits Haiti but an accident requires an emergency medical air evacuation for one team member and an in-country surgery for one boy. Both are recovering slowly.
- December--wouldn't it be great to add a line to this list about raising funds to help complete a high school?!? :)
There are some potentially really wonderful projects in-development that we will send along to you as plans become a bit more solid. Also, several new individuals and organizations have learned about the needs in Pestel this year and have begun to engage and work together.
We also hope to put together a compilation of exciting activities and initiatives that our friends and partner organizations have undertaken in Pestel this past year!
May we find joy in this work, perseverance in our efforts, wisdom in our decisions, and humility in our approach.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Ben
President, Thriving Villages International
Thriving Villages website: www.thrivingvillages.org
Thriving Villages blog: http://thrivingvillages.blogspot.com/
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ThrivingVillages
"Pay special attention to these issues:
love for one another;
absence of desire to be thought of as someone special;
and the impeccable performance of mundane tasks." Teresa of Avila
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