Please consider helping...

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.

But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa

It is really important to me to be able to spend a portion of my time in Ghana helping the people there. I would love to help children especially. There are over one million orphans in Ghana. I am adopting one but there are so many more that are living in troubling conditions. I am so excited to be able to be in Ghana for several weeks (4-8) It will give me a lot of time to get to know people and to get a feel for those places I can help to make a difference.

Unfortunately, I will not have much room at all in my luggage to bring donations. What I plan to do instead is to bring money that I can use to purchase things in Ghana to help those places I have decided to donate to. By doing this, I am also helping the economy by buying goods locally.

Here are a few of the places I plan to visit...


ORPHANAGE IN KASOA...
There is an orphanage in Kasoa which is about an hour or so away from the AAI adoption center (Eban House). This orphanage is home to over 50 children. Until recently they ate one meal a day which provided little nutrition. They are in need of so much that it will be easy to see what is needed but hard to figure out what will help the most. Thankfully our adoption agency, AAI and some adoptive families recently put word that monetary donations are needed for a water borehole and extra food to supplement their diets. These things have been provided for the near future. I would like to go in and help with other things that are needed for their classroom and care. This orphanage has asked for help from our adoption agency in placing children for adoption and there are several children in our adoption center from this orphanage now. Since are planning to adopt another child in the future, there is a chance that we have a son that we do not yet know about at this orphanage.


To help you to understand the conditions at this orphanage...


Their classroom...

The alley outside their class...

A bedroom...

The kitchen....
HIV ORPHANAGE IN GHANA....
I also plan to visit an orphanage for HIV positive children and for those who are orphaned due to loss of their parents from AIDS. HIV/AIDS is one of the leading causes of death in Africa and the majority of those that die from AIDS are adults who often time leave children behind. In many cases these orphaned children are not wanted by family members because their parents had AIDS or the children are unable to be cared for by family members because they do not have the means to do so. Either way these children end up alone and unable to attend school as they need to work to care for themselves and in many cases their siblings. An orphanage was established in Ghana to help care for some of these orphaned children.


DONATION TO HONOR FATHER FRAN...
I also plan to travel to some of the places that my Great Uncle Father Francis worked during his 53 years in Ghana. He was a priest at several parishes, helped open a few schools and touched the lives of many people. I will be meeting his driver and those that knew him. Through my travels tracing his footsteps, I plan to make a donation to a school or orphanage that was meaningful to him. I look so forward to these travels and helping to make a difference to those that knew Father.

Please consider helping me help others by making a donation that I can take with me to Ghana to help some of those in need. If you have always had the desire to help out in Africa but were not sure where to help or that the money will actually make it to those that need it- here is your chance. I will use it to help and will let you all know how I spend the donated funds. If you would like for your donation to go to one of the project more than another, just let me know. The money you donate will go directly to helping- none of it will be for my use or anything related to our adoption.

My goal is to collect $1000 by the time I leave! I know that goal is big but ask anyone who knows me- I dream big and I know there is so much to do there!!

I do have a paypal button on the side that you can make a donation at. If you would prefer to mail it to me, please email me at arizonadavidson@yahoo.com and I will send you my address.

Thank you for considering helping me to make a difference. It would mean so much to me. I know that when I am in Africa, I will see many things that will break my heart. This will be so hard on me. With the adoption, we have a little money set aside for me to use to help others when I am there but I want to do so much more than what I can afford to do alone. With your assistance, you can save me from calling TR and telling him I just spent all my hotel or travel money helping others and now we have no money left!!