Thursday, September 30, 2010

This is my husband Casey, with Art, Nok and Sai, on our 2009 visit to Khon Kaen, Thailand. The children were eager to have us read and re-read a very limited selection of books.

Portion for Orphans is kicking off fall fundraising for a number of projects at Mercy International Children’s Villages in Thailand. We would like to fund a library at an orphanage for the 39 children in Khon Kaen, Thailand. The total cost of this project is $4,000. Upon completion of the library, funds will be used to purchase equipment for an agricultural project at the newest center in Phrae, Thailand. This project will enable the staff to grow rice, vegetables and fruit trees, not only for the children, but also to sell as a means of creating income for other needs. PFO also helps to provide meals, school fees and Bibles for these children.

For more information, to make a donation and to subscribe to periodic email updates, please visit www.portionfororphans.org As always, 100% of donations directly benefit the children unless you designate a portion to administrative expenses. Please help us spread the word.

Sally Lockett <><
Founder/Director, Portion for Orphans

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Mercy International Phrae

In August 2008, PFO raised funds to furnish one of the homes at Mercy International Children's Village in Phrae, Thailand. You all saw pictures of the empty home, of the home with all of the items you funded, and now... of children using all of those items! I thank each of you for your support of all of PFO's projects, not all of them can be seen as visibly as this one, but they are all life changing for the children we serve.

See www.portionfororphans.org for more information or to make a donation. As always, 100% benefits the children!

Sally Lockett <><
Founder/Director, Portion for Orphans



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17T5Wb0-ta8

Mercy International Phrae

Re-posting this due to a technical issue.

In August 2008, PFO raised funds to furnish one of the homes at Mercy International Children's Village in Phrae, Thailand. You all saw pictures of the empty home, of the home with all of the items you funded, and now... of children using all of those items! I thank each of you for your support of all of PFO's projects, not all of them can be seen as visibly as this one, but they are all life changing for the children we serve.

See www.portionfororphans.org for more information or to make a donation. As always, 100% benefits the children!

Sally Lockett <><
Founder/Director, Portion for Orphans

Friday, August 27, 2010

Latest PFO Update Link

Here's the latest PFO news ... thank you all for helping to build this ministry through prayers and support.

http://www.portionfororphans.org/newslettercurrent.php

Thursday, August 26, 2010

New Life Home Trust, Kenya - 4

Here is a little follow up on the $39,000 that PFO partners enabled us to send to New Life Kenya for their 2010 medical expenses.


Wednesday, July 14, 2010

FYI

Just to be clear, underneath the below video clip are some other clips. We are not familiar or affiliated with any of these other organizations. Sally <><

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A New Family

In 2009 PFO funded a cleft lip surgery for Dang An Ran. She has now been adopted and is called Ysabella. The below was written for PFO donors by her new mom, Jenny. ;)


When Giving Changes Lives
When we received that wonderful phone call last
June of 2009 that my husband Robert and I were finally going to be parents, our entire world shifted. The details we received
about our new daughter from our agency during that call would change our lives forever. We would learn that our baby girl had a cleft lip and palate and we would learn that she was receiving tremendous care at New Hope Foundation in Beijing, China. While we were waiting to travel to adopt our daughter, whom we named Ysabella, we kept busy. I made it a great hobby to keep up with
various families who were also waiting to adopt, as well as researching and learning about the organizations who helped care for and bring Ysabella home to us.

One day I was reading a newsletter from New Hope, and discovered that Ysabella's cleft lip surgery had been funded by an organization called Portion for Orphans. I found their website and one thing led to another with another discovery that our daughter was on PFO's blog! There she was in the flesh being filmed by Sally herself. How absolutely ecstatic my husband and I were to see her every day with just the click of a button. I cannot tell you how many wonderful compliments we have received on the excellent lip repair that was done courtesy of the surgeons at Operation Smile in China. With the help of PFO and all the wonderful donors, children like our Ysabella received this important surgery which allowed her to have even more of a beautiful smile. PFO funds enabled the surgery to be paid for, as well as Ysabella's nanny to travel with her from Beijing to the surgery location. What a blessing this has all become. Now that Ysabella has been home with us over six months, she has become even more of a beautiful person. She loves fish, loves to ride outside in her little wagon, hug mommy and daddy, and just be a normal little toddler complete with mini tantrums and giggles. Every
dollar that one person contributes can add up in countless ways. If you truly want to change a person's life, I think it's so important to give what you can. You not only change one person's life, you change all the other lives that he or she comes in contact with. Our family will be forever grateful to PFO and all the wonderful people who helped bring our daughter home to us - beautiful smile and all.Jenny, Robert and Ysabella G.