Showing posts with label donations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label donations. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Family Project: Heifer International


How do you teach your children about compassion, generosity, love, joy, and kindness?  How do you help them live out the gospel of Jesus Christ - in real ways that touch the lives of other people?  We have been blessed this year with the ability to support Heifer International, who helps impoverished families worldwide!

Don't get me wrong - we absolutely do not have a bunch of extra money lying around that we are able to just give away - quite the opposite.  But we want to make a difference in the lives of others and help our children begin to understand that they can do the same.  We have adopted this project as our family Christmas project!  

Together with the boys we are beginning to work on crafts that we will be selling to friends, family, church members, blog readers - whoever is interested in helping my boys earn $150 to buy a goat for a family in need of a livelihood, and a beehive for another.  The boys are excited about doing projects as a family (so are the parent Crums).  They know that their work is going to help people.  

One project that we have started is felt crowns (made by mama Crum).  We will also be making fire starters, ornaments, and a few other items to help us reach our goal.  If you are interested in learning more about our crafts and how you can contribute to our cause, email me - crumsthisnthat @ gmail 

Do you work with your children on special projects that help other people?  What do you support?  Have you heard of Heifer International before?

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Heiny Helpers

Last week I saw that someone had tagged "Heiny Helpers" on Facebook.  Being a fan of cloth diapers, I had to check it out.  I was surprised by what I found.  I had anticipated finding a great new diaper made by a work at home mom.  But this.. is so much better!

Heiny Helpers is a very new organization, founded early this year.  Their mission is to help low income families by loaning them cloth diapers in good condition.  In less than 2 months, this group has helped 15 babies switch to cloth and they have a quickly growing waiting list - there were 11 on the waiting list earlier in the week, now 14!

Heiny Helpers educates families about how to use cloth diapers, how to care for them, and types of cloth diapers.  They offer choices regarding the type of diapers each family receives.  I am really very impressed by this program and would love to see it start in my home town also.  (I've still got to look into what it would take).

Here's the kicker ---- they run on donations.  There are 14 babies waiting for cloth diapers RIGHT NOW and the list is growing so quickly!  You can help Heiny Helpers by donating new or gently used diapers directly to them.  I would love to hear that some of my readers donated to Heiny Helpers.  I'd also love to hear about similar programs in your area.

I am asking my readers to consider donating 1 or 2 diapers that you don't use as often as the others (if you're like me, you've got some you prefer and others that get used absolutely last)... I am also planning a donation of 1 or 2 diapers for now, and next time I'm in their area, I've got a bag of prefolds to drop off!
First United Church
2420 E. Third St.
Bloomington, IN 47401

They also accept monetary donations on their website.

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