PLEASE...

if one of your spiritual gifts is giving or if you have a heart for feeding the hungry or clothing the poor, PLEASE contact me.

just had a meeting with dr. molina and the ministry of health in los chiles. they said they will take me to the schools on the frontier where the only food the kids have is bananas. they cannot accept money directly but would shop with me to purchase the things the kids need. this way i can see where the money is going, ie for toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, pencils and notebooks for school, etc.

i told dr. molina about the program world vision had for the schools in guanacaste, another province of costa rica, ie having gardens right at the schools and the kids learning to grow food there. if their sole food source is bananas i would think they would be pretty motivated.

i used to have a pretty green thumb but seeing what they had to start with to make the garden was pretty disheartening. they had to cut down the jungle with machetes to even just clear a space for a garden.

they need money to accomplish this. i know there are people out there that have money and have the gift of giving and maybe a heart for missions, or maybe just a heart for poor, hungry people, but can't go themselves and would want to support them - i just need to find them. any idea where i can start. if you are one of them PLEASE contact me. if you know anyone please have them contact me.

plain white t-shirts for the kids are 1,000 colones - $2.77 cdn. not much but if there are 50 kids it's 50,000 - $138.50 cdn. that's not much for you or i but that's a huge amount when you have nothing.

i heard once that costa rica was a second world country but i have seen third world living conditions first hand here.

as with everything else you may think you're only one person - what difference can you make. it's starts with one and yes you can make a difference.

how much is a tattoo? $70.00? that will buy 5 pairs of school shoes for kids that have never had a pair of shoes in their life.

if you already support kids through world vision for one equal payment of $35.00 you can completely outfit a child here in costa rica for school, shoes, sox, pants, shirt, books.

dr. molina's program is for 10 schools on the frontier but there are so many more schools, every few kilometers here because there is no transportation.

shovels are less than $10 each and if each school had a shovel and seeds, etc. maybe they could start a garden and grow nutritious foods. but they need your help. they don't have the money or the tools.

if a goat could be bought for each school the kids would at least have milk. PLEASE can you not find it in your heart to give.

do you really need that 100th cd?

or another sega game?

can you skip seeing lord of the rings for the 7th time?

can you live without buying another pair of shoes?

do you really need a tv or dvd in every room?

i'm not trying to guilt you out. i know a lot of people have worked very hard to have what they have. and i know a lot of people that live to excess.

i'm asking you to search your heart.

and i'm asking you to give.

PLEASE.