This Sunday the 18th, is Oktober Family Fest to benefit the Schmitt Family orphanage, and we thought we would give you a sneak peak of our cool festival logo! We are so excited that we just can’t wait to show you! One of our amazing volunteers Dana created this logo for us and we know [...]
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 [...]
Monday, August 31, 2009
YAY!!!!!!! Peter Alsop will be preforming at the Oktober Family Festival. Peter Alsop is a nationally known singer-songwriter, educator and humorist with a Ph.D. in educational psychology. Through his music, Peter educates families as well as helping to open up lines of communication between kids and adults about sensitive issues that life throws at us. [...]
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 [...]
Monday, August 17, 2009
We had a good week last week! From meetings with an awesome local chef who has agreed to help us at the festival by donating his time, and over seeing the entire food process at our October Family Fest. That’s right we got a pro! We are so excited to see what he comes up [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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Monday, August 10, 2009
WeCanBuildanOrphanage is proud to announce our October Family Festival! On October 18th, 2009 we will be hosting our event on a beautiful ranch up in the hills of Topanga Canyon. We are going to have a day filled with music, good food and a lot fun. Stay tuned every Monday for updates on the planning [...]
Friday, August 7, 2009
Thursday, July 30th was Estania’s birthday (again ), she turned 9 years old! It’s amazing how fast time flies, it feels like we just celebrated her birthday the day before yesterday. Her last birthday was when we just moved into the new house we are in now. It is shocking, just how fast a year [...]
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Over the last few weeks at WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com we have done a great deal of investigation into Amawanda‘s family to see if it was time to place her back home with her family. Last Thursday we made the decision to do just that, bring her home. This is a preview of Amawanda’s Return Home. Read the [...]
Meet Little Martin. On a routine visit to a hospital we noticed a little disabled boy in one of the hospital cribs. The boy had been left to fend for himself, he had no identification and his birthday is a mystery. He had been in the hospital for a few days and had been severely neglected: his diapers were soiled and he was covered in lice. No one had taken any notice of this little boy in a few days and we were left with no choice but to bring the little boy home. In honor of one the Kay Angel founders we named the boy “Little” Martin. Read more about Martin →
Monday, October 12, 2009
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