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Caring for Abandoned Babies

Help me get to South Africa to volunteer at an orphange!

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Caring for Abandoned Babies

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Caring for Abandoned Babies

Caring for Abandoned Babies

Caring for Abandoned Babies

Help me get to South Africa to volunteer at an orphange!

Help me get to South Africa to volunteer at an orphange!

Help me get to South Africa to volunteer at an orphange!

Help me get to South Africa to volunteer at an orphange!

Rachel Thompson
Rachel Thompson
Rachel Thompson
Rachel Thompson
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Christchurch, New Zealand
$732 USD 5 backers
20% of $3,500 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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My Story

Ever since I was a young girl, I dreamed about working in a orphanage and caring for babies that had no one to love them. This year, I have been given the opportunity to do volunteer at the Door of Hope Children’s Mission in Johannesburg, South Africa. I will be staying for two months, with most of that time working. I will look after up to twelve babies at one time, with shifts of ten –thirteen hours long. I will do a mixture of day and night shifts. 
I have applied and been accepted. The only thing left is to raise the funds to go. My father has kindly paid for my flights on the condition that I seek sponsorship to pay him back. My flight from New Zealand leaves on the 22nd of November this year. That’s right, just a few weeks away!



The Impact

My impact will probably be mostly on the lives of the children I will care for.  I will have the chance to love precious babies, a lot of which have been abandoned. The situation for babies in South Africa is desperate. A lot of mothers simply can’t afford to look after their children, so they give them up to hospitals or orphanages. Other babies are just left to die, dumped in toilets, dump sites or even public parks.


What I Need

I need $3,500 USD for my trip away.  Most of that will go into the flights to get there, the rest into accommodation, food, travel insurance, and a Hep A vaccination, and any personal effects I will need to by when I get there. 



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