Category: Angel Crafts Shop

This is my second post highlighting 2 orphans each month.

i am sad to say that there has been no sales in September so we have not been able to contribute to the Reece’s Rainbow Old Child (Other Angels) Grant. But it is ok. i will just keep highlighting the children because they are the ones who need a voice to help find them a forever family.

So Meet Aubrey!

Audrey is 13 years old and she is said to be a kind and polite child who smiles at people every day. She also gets along well with others and is very helpful. She sounds like a very delightful child! However, her disabilities, which are so minor, have prevented her from having a family to call her own. She has anemia, nystagmus and minor delay, all of which are manageable. She just needs a caring family to blossom into a beautiful young lady. She only has 12 months before she ages out of her home country’s adoption system. So she really needs her forever family to step up for her NOW!

Aubrey has a US$3000 grant from her current agency and a US$10,000 grant from Reece’s Rainbow. So this will be very helpful to help her family in their travels to her.

Now Meet McKinley!

McKinley is described as shy, kind, helpful, friendly and obedient by the staff at her orphanage. She attends special education classes at the orphanage and her favourite subjects are art and Chinese. She likes to play with dolls and puzzles and likes dogs and kangaroos. Her best friend has been adopted by an Amercian family and she would love to be adopted too. She wishes to grow up to be a mama; isn’t that wonderful? Her special needs are growth, developmental and mental delays, all are easily managed. She has 19 months till she ages out of her country’s adoption system. So she needs a loving family to step forward for her really soon.

McKinley has a US$10,000 grant from Reece’s Rainbow which will be given out when the family receives travel dates.

Please help Aubrey and McKinley to get their stories out there; please share their need for a family with as many as possible. Please do pray for them. And last but not least, you can shop at Angel Crafts Shop to help grow the Reece’s Rainbow grant which is being given to these girls when their families come and get them. 50% of all sales at Angel Crafts Shop will be given to the grant.

Please click on their names or pictures to find out more about each girl.

Thank you very much.

syc

So it has been 2 months since i last wrote about my Orphan of the Month. If you remember at the beginning of July, i said that July and August would be the last month we have to contribute to DENNY‘s adoption grant because he will be moved to the Older Boys Grant section on Reece’s Rainbow. See this post.

Well, in July and August, there was, again, no sales; which means i have not been able to contribute to DENNY‘s grant. 😦

Now i have been thinking hard about the direction i should go with Angel Crafts Shop. i do still want to continue with the shop and i do still want to continue contributing to the orphans advocated for via Reece’s Rainbow.

BUT… since running the shop and my other responsibilities take up so much of my time, my actual advocacy efforts (i.e. highlighting individual orphans so they get seen) have taken a backseat. Not what i wanted, really.

Now my heart is for orphans, and especially for special needs orphans, and even more specifically for older (6 years and up) special needs orphans, because they are usually the last to be seen.

So looking at the situation, i have decided that i will not be having an Orphan of the Month anymore! INSTEAD, Angel Crafts Shop will be giving 50% of all sales to the Older Child Grant (10+ years old) at Reece’s Rainbow. AND i will be highlighting 2 orphans every month from that list. So in a way, there will still be orphan of the month, just highlighting 2 of them (now it will be called OrphanS of the Month) and fundraising for the whole group of them.

Giving will be split between Older Child Grant for Other Angels (other special needs) and Older Child Grant for Down Syndrome; September, October, January, February and March for Older Child Grant for Other Angels; April, May, June, July, August for Older Child Grant for Down Syndrome. November and December will be reserved for the child i get assigned to for the special Christmas fundraising event, Angel Tree. Please click on the respective grant titles to see details as well as a list of all the children on it.

In this way, i am able to keep on giving and also get back to active advocacy for individuals, and also not be overstressed if i don’t have sales for a couple of months, i know i have 5 months to try and raise some money for each group of older children.

So this month kicks off my fundraising efforts for the Older Child Grant for Other Angels!

i have also been thinking about the direction of Angel Crafts Shop itself; in terms of what crafts i would be making for sale. So stay tuned for news on that front because there will be big sales to sell off current stock and then launching of new stock in the new year!

In the meantime, keep shopping at Angel Crafts Shop so that you can help to grow these children’s adoption grants, which gives the family who steps up for any of them a better chance of reaching them before they age out of the system.

Thank you very much for your continued support!

syc