Serve the Children has so many things to be thankful for as 2017 closes and 2018 begins.  Your donations, prayers, and volunteer support achieved many things in 2017.  I love the fact that during the busy Christmas season, many of you participated in Giving Tuesday where we raised over $4,000 to purchase shoes and socks for children from the slums of Mumbai. As you can see in the picture above the kids were overjoyed about their new shoes. Your generosity at year end just blew me away!

Check out some of our goals for 2018.  Maybe you would like to donate to one of these projects.  Any amount is appreciated and helps make a difference in the lives of children and their parents in Liberia, India and Zambia.  Perhaps you would consider sponsoring a child for only $25 per month – giving them hope and a future in 2018.  

2018 Goals:

• Have 70 people attend our Second Annual Chocolate on Mission event on January 14th at 6.30pm – see below for details.
• Convert the 3rd Floor at our Sinkor school to a computer lab – $13,000 has been raised for this project
• Complete construction of 3 more classrooms at our 15 Gate school for a junior high program – $12,000 project; most of these funds have been raised by the PTA, staff and teachers in Liberia but we still need about $5,000 to complete the project
• Establish a school furniture production site at our Sinkor school and train students to construct furniture as a career path and build desks, chairs and tables for our school and other schools
• Construct a small building in the slum area of Mumbai for about $40,000 to provide basic education to children and teach their parents a trade
• Purchase 10 sewing machines for $1,500 for teaching women how to sew as a career in Mumbai
• Expand our education program in Zambia to the 1st grade
• Increase our sponsorship program with more children from Liberia, India and Zambia
• Raise $100,000 at our Fall Auction on October 20, 2018 – mark this date on your calendar!

Thank for you for all your continued support.  We are looking forward to a successful 2018, giving hope and a future to children in Liberia, India and Zambia because of all of you!