Honoring Olivia's Past

Love Without Boundaries is sponsoring a fundraiser to assist families in China to pay for surgeries for their children they could not otherwise afford. See below for more information. Love Without Boundaries is important in our family's life because they support a nutrition program at the orphanage Olivia is from. LWB assisted in providing formula to Olivia while she was there. In a previous post I linked to the LWB blog which shows pictures of their staff at Qingliu, including pictures of Olivia.

In honor of our anniversary of meeting Olivia, I asked some friends from work to donate to the fund and I am very pleased with the response from them and from family. If you have a dollar, an envelope and a stamp, please join in.

From LWB's email:

Goal: $1 challenge to save a child's life!

LWB is launching a $1 challenge to kick off our new Unity Fund for impoverished, rural families in China. So many times over the years, we have met families who have had to make the painful decision to abandon their child in the hopes of getting them the medical care they need. It has been a dream of ours for many years to begin such a fund, so that when we learn of families in true crisis, we can provide their children with the surgeries they need so that such a painful decision does not have to be made.

We have met so many of these families in person, and they love their children completely, but they simply could never afford a $5000 heart surgery to save their child's life when their family is living on less than $50 per month. Our Unity Fund was created to keep these families united and to give a second chance of a healthy life to at-risk children living in poverty. Join with us on this dream, and actually help prevent children from being orphaned. We challenge everyone to send just ONE DOLLAR during this challenge period to LWB's Unity Fund. Is it possible to find 5000 people to donate $1? With your help, we believe it is. If we meet that goal, then together we can impact a child's life forever.

Pass on this message to everyone you know! Pop just $1 in the mail to Love Without Boundaries and help change the world, one child at a time.

Love Without Boundaries
P.O. Box 25016
Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0016

or donate $1 online at

www.lovewithoutboundaries.com

or donate through Facebook by clicking "donate" and then choosing "other" and putting in $1.

Together we can continue our work of bringing hope to those truly in need!