Milk Money For Mali

Today, we would like to start this blog’s entry thanking Lillian Joyce Collins, from Michigan State University, and her older sister Megan, and her friends and family members for their continuous and generous help.

Megan is an art teacher in an Elementary School from United States. When she heard of our situation, she convinced her students (aged between 8 and 10 years old) to do something to help us. And so they did. They have handcrafted this incredible dolls made of socks. It’s a beautiful way of expressing love and affection towards the kids from the orphanage, and we thank them for it. And also thanks to Professor Yobi Guindo for making the connections with us.

Now our first priority is the construction of the new orphanage. More and more kids are coming everyday, and the old one is just not big enough to attend all their needs. But of course, to build a new orphanage means money. So we hope somebody could help us.

Any donation, even the very humblest, is always welcome. And we’d like to thank Lillian for her recent contribution.

In order to build this new orphanage, there’s a long way ahead of us that we have to walk step by step. And the first one of these steps comes from the  beautiful “Milk Money for Africa” Project.

In the picture you can see the children wearing the T-Shirts with BIBI herself. 

Milk Money for Africa is a project by Lillian and her friends and family, trying to raise funds in order to pay the milk for the children that need to be nursed.

We hope you could all bring some help to this cause.

We’d also like to express our gratitude here to Lillian Joyce Collins Family and Friends’ Found Raising from Michigan for their donation.

In total we received 470$

With this money we plan to split it for two purposes: 200$ will be used to buy milk for the 20 babies under six months old, and the rest, 270$ will be used to start building water well for the orphanage. Water is a necessity for everyone, so the construction of the well is mandatory.

We also plan to craft some necklaces and send them to Lillian for more fundraising events.

The purchase of one of these necklaces is also a way to donate money for the orphanage and for the children.

We’d like to ask Lillian if it would be possible to make an auction in E-Bay with these necklaces. In that way, people from all over the world can buy a necklace from the orphanage.

On Thursday, August11^th, a new baby appeared in our step. A new born baby abandoned by his mother, without any clothes and left alone under the rain.

Thanks to Megan’s hand-made wool quilt, the new member of our big family of 266 children will never be cold again. You can see it the picture. Now the baby, Mohamad is nice and warm.

Thank you for everything.