Alejandra & Fabiola's IGP

Su received an update on on of our MAC fundraisers. We raised money to provide items for Alejandra and Fabiola's mother to sell out of her home. The money was raised a year ago and provided to the family. The update on this business is that their mother is no longer selling the items from her home. Instead, she is selling items in a street market!!

She has had much success in the market, and has used some of the profits to purchase more items to sell (which you can see above). In addition, she has a catalog that customers can order bedspreads from. This guarantees that the items will be sold. Awesome report!! Congratulations Alejandra and Fabiola!!

A Look Back 2009 Part 2~ All IGP's!

#4 Henry is my child (Heather M), and he lives in Cartagena, Colombia. His family has struggled to keep employment and a steady income. When I first started sponsoring him, his family was living on $25 a month!! Now, his family is at $105 a month. This is extremely low, so this fundraiser was very important for the family.

Amount raised: $215 by 5/6/09

What the family received:
Items needed to start their own restaurant
1 set of 12 pieces of cutlery
4 plastic tables
16 plastic chairs
1 can opener
1 pitcher
1 fryer
1 blender
1 grater
1 fan

The amount needed to start the business was way more than what we could raise at that time. For this reason, I have requested an update from the field to see how much more the family needs to get the business off the ground.

#5 Alejandra and Fabiola are Su's children in Mexico. They wanted to start a business selling small items in order to add income to the household.

Amount raised: $290 by 5/12/09

Items bought for the business:

toys

plates

cups

bowls

and more! (take a look at the picture to see just how much they were about to buy to sell)

#6 Brenda is Chrystal's child in Guatemala. They family was in need of income to provide for their basic needs. This fundraiser set up Brenda's family to have an ice drink business.

Amount raised: $265 by 5/20/09

Items purchased for the business:

A machine to make ice drinks

A juice extractor

6 glasses

200 oranges

Pictures and Thank you from Project #5!

Dear Sponsor,

This is Rocío, the mom of Fabiola and I write to thank you for your donation for the project, I hope we do good. Fabi and her 2 sisters are very happy with what we'll sell on our garage. We bought small toys, some dishes and novelty items to sell at low prices, I hope we do ell in this project and with the profits we will buy more novelty items and even some school supplies for the kids.Thank you very much, God bless you and your loved ones, from my daughter Fabiola

Sincerely, Rocío

Dear Sponsor,

Thank you very much for what we were able to buy. We bought some curtains, plastic glasses and dishes, notebooks to draw, some ropes to jump, some action figures, bingo cards, spary, balls of different colors, small containers with lots of bubbles. Thank you very much, I live you very much and I want to thank you because you give me lots of things. We also bought accessories for wrestling toys, accessories for cell phones, puzzles and kitchen utensils like color spoons.Thank you very much because thanks to you , my mum and us will have a small shop with lots of things.

Sincerely, Alejandra.

Project #5 is Underway!

Fabiola and Alejandra are two sisters that live in Mexico, both sponsored by Su. Their father works as a driver and their mother is a homemaker. They have an older sister, Arethmi.

CI was contacted to determine if it was possible to set an Income Generation Project for the mother, as she stays at home all day while the girls are in school.

CI replied: «People of this area do crafts for living. The family said that they had experience to sell things like little containers (kind of tupperware) or things that cost around 0.50$. They would start the business with a capital of $200 USD. At the beginning they would sell these things in the front of their home and later in little markets in the street.»

This IGP will greatly help the family to become more self sustainable! Alejandra is a 10 year old girl, she is in the 5th grade in school. She is a very talkative girl and her letters are really fun to read! She enjoys acting and she even went to free acting classes in her county. She loves to play with her friends, ride a bike, jump rope and skating, although she doesn't know how to do it very well (so she told me). She also told me her favourite colors are: pink, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, red... bascially all colors! She also loves animals, flowers and trees! When she grows up, she wants to be a teacher.

Fabiola is 5 and her mother told me she loves to eat noodle soup and milk with cereals. She is in third grade of kindergarten and loves making friends, in fact she is really friendly! She loves school, but she doesn't like when kids fight and say bad words. She wants to be a nurse when she grows up to take care of the "abuelitos" (that's what her mum wrote). Also she likes to shower herself and pick her own clothes. Her favourite colours are pink, blue and pastel colors.

To make a donation to this project, please visit:

http://www.firstgiving.com/igp4mexicansisters

I know that this project will fund quickly, too. In case you didn't see my post on the forum, here are a few posts from that:

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!! There are not enough thank you's to show my appreciation for each and everyone of you as well as my excitement for all of our children!!!!

So, here is the big news... You have all shown that together we can make big things happen... So, that is what we are going to do. Someone else will be making a seperate announcement, but I want you to know that it is still a group effort. We are both working together for a common goal- to help all of our kid's families. Here is what is changing on my end:

Starting with project #11, the max for the small fundraisers has been raised to $500!!! That doesn't mean that you have to find a fundraiser that hits the $500 limit, but it should mean that more people can participate in the fundraising. If you have a fundraiser in mind, make sure to send it my way. I know they won't fund as fast as these smaller ones, but I am positive they WILL fund :0)

Make sure to send me your projects. I need to have the list of the next 10 projects lined up by 5/9/09. Make sure to check out my blog as well, so that you know what I need to get from you. On 5/10/09, I will release the list of the next 10 projects on the blog (projects 11-20). So, please send all that you can ASAP.

Stephanie will be handling the projects over $500 with a limit of $2500. I think this will open up a lot of options and opportunities for our sponsored children and their families!!!

I can't wait to get the first round of pictures & thank you from the first two projects. We will probably get those by the end of June, and then, we will have a steady stream of them coming in!! Stay tuned to this blog where all of it will be posted as soon as it arrives!!