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AFRICAN ORPHANS NEED HELP

When you look into the eyes of a starving African child, if you have any heart, you cannot walk away and forget. Please help us care for Liberian orphans.

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AFRICAN ORPHANS NEED HELP

AFRICAN ORPHANS NEED HELP

AFRICAN ORPHANS NEED HELP

AFRICAN ORPHANS NEED HELP

AFRICAN ORPHANS NEED HELP

When you look into the eyes of a starving African child, if you have any heart, you cannot walk away and forget. Please help us care for Liberian orphans.

When you look into the eyes of a starving African child, if you have any heart, you cannot walk away and forget. Please help us care for Liberian orphans.

When you look into the eyes of a starving African child, if you have any heart, you cannot walk away and forget. Please help us care for Liberian orphans.

When you look into the eyes of a starving African child, if you have any heart, you cannot walk away and forget. Please help us care for Liberian orphans.

Cheryl Carter-Shotts
Cheryl Carter-Shotts
Cheryl Carter-Shotts
Cheryl Carter-Shotts
1 Campaign |
Indianapolis, United States
$2,375 USD 14 backers
9% of $25,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

LIBERIAN ORPHANS NEED HELP

The Liberian orphan children living in the "AFAA House"; a Christian orphanage, in the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, NEED help.  Some of the children, under the care of Americans for African Adoptions, Inc. (AFAA), are healthy and some are special needs, because Cerebral Palsy is not uncommon in Liberia.  The "African Angels" are one to 12 years of age.

 

AFAA was developed because of an August 11, 1985,18 second, "60 Minutes" "interview" between Diane Sawyer and this starving boy in the middle of the Sahara Desert in Mali, West Africa. 

The boy volunteered on camera that he was "hungry all the time", he "hadn't eaten in four days" and "had seen many childrens die every day".  An American woman watching Diane Sawyer and the boy decided to help the child, and then other African orphans, establishing the licensed, non-profit, international aid and adoption agency for African orphans - "Americans for African Adoptions, Inc." in 1986.

 

AFAA was able to establish the Liberian AFAA House in 1992, during one of Liberia's civil wars, when many children were losing their parents to war atrocities. 

Our AFAA children pray every day, with our foster mothers, for a new family.  Since January 2009 healthy, Liberian children have not been able to be adopted while the Government of Liberia rewrites their adoption regulations. The children pray the regulations will soon be updated and they can be adopted . . . so their bed can be used for another child needing help.  We've had reduced funding as donations and children's sponsorships have substantially decreased as our economy struggles and prospective adopting families have given up waiting. 

 

The boy Diane Sawyer was interviewing was an orthopedic medical mess.  When he came to America he was 5'4" and weighed 65 pounds.  He had no education, could not count to 10, did not know ABC's, yet he could speak six languages.  Today the boy has had multiple surgeries to rebuild his body, is a healthy, well educated, employed, husband and father.

 

 

The orphans of Liberia need help so they too can become well eduated, receive needed medical care and hopefully a new family.

 

This little African Angel died in a Liberian hospital at 5am, Wednesday, September 4, 2013, of Malaria.  On the way to pick up her body for burial the AFAA car broke down.  PLEASE, help Liberian orphans in honor of RUTH.  Thank you.

OUR VISION IS TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING LIBERIAN ORPHANS

AFAA was established because one woman wanted to help one child and when he started talking about his orphan friends in the Sahara, the boy's new American mother knew she had to help other orphan children like her new African son.

 

OUR CAMPAIGN GOAL IS 6 MONTHS OF ORPHANAGE EXPENSES

We need to raise $25,000 to support our Liberian AFAA House for six months.  Food, diapers (lots of diapers), security, utilities, medical care, clothing/shoes, teacher's salaries and supplies, staff salaries, fuel for our donated car, mosquito repellent, mosquito nets and all that goes along with 15 staff, caring for 18 children, in a developing country, is needed.  With funding help AFAA can care for additional children as they are referred to the AFAA House by the Government of Liberia.   

100% OF DONATIONS ARE USED TO SUPPORT THE CHILDREN

Without help we are worried that children in our care may have to be returned to the Liberian government who have no place to put them except in poor, rundown hospitals, to help care for each other, or in even poorer orphanages. Our intial plans and capital kept us going until healthy children adoptions were put on hold in January 2009.  Now we are struggling to continue helping the children.

Since 1986 AFAA has cared for 705 African Orphans, secured donated surgeries for some and have placed children for adoption in North America, all born in Liberia, Mali and Sierra Leone, West Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia, East Africa and Lesotho, Southern Africa.

 

Orphanage operational costs range from $3,580 to $4,630 monthly if none of the children or staff becomes seriously ill with Malaria, no one has to be hospitalized, the car doesn't breakdown, etc., . . . $25,000 will support the children and the orphanage for six months.  Orphanage rent is 0 via a donation of the home

100% OF FUNDS RECEIVED WILL BE USED FOR OUR ORPHANAGE.

If everyone in the world would reach out to just one other person, with a blanket, a dollar, a meal, a smile, like we are asking of you . . . how terrific the world would be!

 

PLEASE SHARE OUR CAMPAIGN

The children NEED your support. Please help us spread the word about this important campaign.  Please ask your friends, family, church, scout group, college buddies, employers and co-workers about these beautiful children needing help and ask them to spread the word to their contacts.

HOW YOU CAN HELP

*  PLEASE make a donation - AFAA is a IRS registered charity, a 501(c)(3).

*  Discuss with your employer matching donations.

*  Share our story with your church, employer, scout group, employer, co-workers, student buddies, etc. about helping to sponsor the AFAA House Orphanage.

*  Share the tools at the bottom of this page and forward to friends.

*  Share and shout this information with everyone you know through Indiegogo tools, Facebook, Twitter, your church, employer, child's school newsletters and every other place you can think of.

*  Ask your family and friends to make a donation.

*  Follow us on twitter @African Angels and tweet our stories and success.

*  Contact AFAA at amfaa@aol.com about setting up a $40 monthly sponsorship for one of these beautiful children.

*  Volunteer to help the children by being an experienced grant writer.

*  Help the children because of smiling little Ruth who is now God's Angel :(

*  If you would like to talk please e-mail or call Cheryl  - amfaa@aol.com or 317-271-4567 EST.

Peace, good food & clean water,
Cheryl Carter-Shotts
Americans for African Adoptions, Inc.

 

Founder/Managing Director of Americans for African Adoptions, Inc.,

Cheryl Carter-Shotts in Africa

2006 Congressional Angel in Adoption Award, nominated by Senator Richard Lugar 

 


 

 

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Child's New Clothing

$10 USD
Thank you for buying one child a new set of church clothes.
1 out of 18 of claimed

Medical Appointment

$25 USD
Your contribution will help one child see a doctor as quickly as needed.
1 claimed

Staff Person Food for Month

$40 USD
Thank you for helping us feed one of our orphanage staff three meals a day for one month so they will not be hungry as they care for our AFAA children.
0 out of 90 of claimed

Child's Sponsorship

$40 USD
Your sponsorship of $40 a month will help with one child's expenses. Once all orphanage children are sponsored we can help other children.
1 out of 100 of claimed

Feed A Child

$50 USD
You are terrific for helping us feed one orphan child three meals and 2 snacks of nutritious foods for one month.
3 out of 108 of claimed

Cook for One Month

$95 USD
Our cook prepares three meals and two snacks, six days a week for the children and staff. Foster mothers take turns on Sundays.
0 out of 6 of claimed

Child's Mattress and Sheets

$105 USD
The best mattresses don't last long since they are cut fom a piece of foam. Your donation will provide a new mattress and sheets for one child.
0 out of 18 of claimed

Housekeeper for A Month

$110 USD
Our housekeeper keeps the house clean, scrubs floors, brings in barrels of water to flush toilets, children can bathe and cleans the sandy yard.
0 out of 6 of claimed

Physical Therapist for A Month

$170 USD
This is so very important for our special needs children. Your donation will provide the salary and transportation for a physical therapist three times a week for one month.
1 out of 6 of claimed

Security Guards

$190 USD
Security is very important and this perk will provide two night security guards salaries and transportation to protect our children for one month.
0 out of 6 of claimed

Two Teacher's Salaries

$200 USD
Education is so important and your perk will cover the salaries for two teachers, plus their transportation, for one month, for the children in our AFAA House orphanage.
1 out of 6 of claimed

Orphanage Utilities

$210 USD
Electricity, water & trash pick up for one month - now we have electricity and trash pick up - water comes into the yard but isn't strong enough to reach the house
0 out of 6 of claimed

Laundry Persons

$210 USD
This will pay two staff to hand wash our children's clothes, sheets, etc. for one month.
0 out of 6 of claimed

Orphanage Director's Salary

$350 USD
Our orphanage director works hard to coordinate all that needs to be done for 18 children and 15 staff. Your donation will pay her salary for one month.
0 out of 6 of claimed

Foster Mothers

$500 USD
Imagine caring for 18 children, many of them with Cerebral Palsy. This perk will cover the salary + transportation allowance for 3 day and 2 night foster mothers for one month.
0 out of 6 of claimed

Christmas 2013

$500 USD
Each of our children and staff will receive a $15 gift this Christmas 2013.
0 out of 1 of claimed

Electric Stove and Freezer

$750 USD
Our cook uses an outside coal stove to prepare food for 18 children and 15 staff - an electric stove will help. A freezer will keep food cold when electricity goes out.
0 out of 1 of claimed

Food, Diapers & Supplies

$1,350 USD
Food costs and all supplies keep increasing. This perk will cover one month of children's nutritious food, diapers and orphanage supplies for one month.
0 out of 6 of claimed

Six Months Orphanage Expenses

$25,000 USD
WOW, WOW, you will cover 6 months of orphanage expenses, including a little extra for when the car breaks down or children are hospitalized, usually for Malaria.
0 out of 1 of claimed
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