Sacrifice in French or in English is the name of a beautiful piece of land that we were able to purchase with great financial help from our donors in The Netherlands. This is where we will rebuild our orphanage. The expectations are that it will take years before the clean up in Haiti is completed, [...]
Monday, February 8, 2010
Thursday 4 February 2010: The Canadian navy has visited us several times this week, to come and scout the need for toilets. We do need that very much, so they located a good spot across the street from us and marked the area. The next day a big bulldozer came by to dig the hole. [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
TRANSLATED FROM DUTCH TO ENGLISH Arjan van der Veen of the Commercial Boats sailing from Den Helder we got the offer to be shipping goods to Haiti, with the schooner brig “Tres Hombres”. Soon the 28th day because they would all leave. Lia had been specifically stated that we currently need them and so we [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Lia finally got through to us this morning and confirmed what we read in a short email last night, that they are all fine. When the earthquake hit, she was at the park at the Town Square with five children. Just before 5PM she decided to head back to the orphanage. “That’s when everything turned upside down,” she [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
Lia recently hired a Boss (this is what they call a carpenter/repair-man in Haiti) named Frito for some repairs around the orphanage. While she had access to Frito she decided to see if she could strike a deal with him to build a true school bench for the triplets. They have been working so hard [...]
Friday, October 16, 2009
Check out the complete program to our Oktoberfest Sunday!!! You are not going to want to miss it! Oktoberfest Program Silent Auction We can’t wait to see you all!!! And you can still purchase tickets on the Oktoberfest page, or you can but them at the door. EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE Permanent link to [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
Tickets are on sale for our Oktober Family Festival and are limited, so get them while you can! You can pick your tickets up in Topanga at Waterlily, Mimosa, and the Saturday Abundant Harvest pickup, we can’t wait to see you:) EMAIL | PRINT | SHARE Permanent link to this post (48 words, 12 images, [...]
Monday, September 14, 2009
Today part of the Topanga WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com crew is off to Haiti, on a Haiti Unites mission (you can see some of the organizations we will be visiting on our Haiti Unites page). We are traveling all over Haiti over the next few weeks and will be sure to keep you updated on all of our [...]
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
As you may know by now WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com is hosting their first annual Oktober Family Fest, October 18th, and we thought this would be a good time to introduce you to some of our musical acts. Fist off, Meet the Polsky Band! This amazing local family loves to get everyone in the mood for dancing with [...]
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
On August 7th of this month we had the exciting opportunity of being the featured non-profit at the Topanga Film Festivals Friday night screening at “Trust Ranch” (the founder of WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com house). Not only did Urs and Sara, the founders of the Topanaga Film Festival Feature us, but their kids dressed up and sold candy [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
Thank you so much All Green Things!!! Last week we picked up 2 beautiful baskets for the WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com October Family Fest silent auction. The first is filled with wonderful green baby products like the wee-go glass bottle, Nature’s Baby Organics baby products and more!!!!! As id that was not generous enough from our new friends [...]
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
This weekend I had the pleasure of attending an event for Hollywood Unites for Haiti (HUFH) at the Kress Night Club. As many of our readers know I have been speaking with other Haiti organizations to find ways to join forces to promote greater change, and HUFH is one of them. The Heroes actor from [...]
Jesula was born on April 11th, 2007. At about nine months old her mother passed away from AIDS and Jesula was left at an orphanage. The nuns prayed very hard for Jesula but against their prayers, she tested positive for HIV. Read more about Jesula and her life at Kay Angel →
Thursday, July 22, 2010
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