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In This Issue:
- Restore A Child Aids ACTS in Alabama Relief
- Meet Restore A Child's New Chairman, Dr. Jonathan Kuntaraf
- Korean Youth Mission Trip to Haiti
-Restore A Child President Meets ADRA's President
- Restore A Child Embarks on Three New Humanitarian Projects
- Current Updates on Restore A Child's Programs and Projects
-Message from the President
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WHAT'S COMING ?
MISSION TRIP:
Restore A Child and our partner, ACTS World Relief, will be embarking on a mission trip to Haiti. If you would like to be a part of this event, please contact us, toll free at:
(877) 745-7833
DETAILS:
Destination: Haiti
Dates:
12/27/11- 01/05/12
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Restore A Child Aids ACTS in Alabama Relief
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When natural disasters hit and you are unprepared for such destruction in an unexpected twinkle of an eye, where do you turn to? When you lose your home and everything you cherish so dear, what do you do? When in a moment, you are homeless and hungry on the street, who do you go to other than God for comfort and provision? Well, I know that you can go to David Canther, President of ACTS World Relief, our partners in Haiti and now in Alabama, who currently has 8 trailors equipped with mobile commercial kitchens and has been providing aid and feeding those displaced by the tornadoes that hit the area of Pleasant Grove, Alabama recently. Please click here to view the news coverage of ACTS humanitarian disaster relief work and David Canther featured on Channel 9.
If you would like to help the American families that have been devastated by this tragedy in Alabama, please write your checks to: ACTS World Relief or
RESTORE A CHILD
11212 Cherry Hill Road, Suite 202
Beltsville, Maryland 20705
Caption: These hungry girls not only were fed, but helped feed 13,800 hot meals to hurting tornado survivors
Caption: Providing food to the many devestated by the Alabama tornado disaster
Caption: ACTS provided care to Tonya who flew thru the air 200 feet and lived to tell about it
Thank you for your support.
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Meet Restore A Child's New Chairman, Dr. Jonathan Kuntaraf
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Dr. Jonathan Kuntaraf
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Jonathan Kuntaraf, born into a Buddhist family in Indonesia, was baptized when he was 17. During the past 38 years he has served as a pastor, college professor and administrator. He earned his doctorate degree in ministry from Andrews University in 1979.
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His wife, Kathleen, is a physician and the daughter of a Christian physician. She has served as a hospital physician, as a project coordinator and assistant director with Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), and as a division health director.
Dr. Kuntaraf is a very generous donor to Restore A Child. He also has been promoting and fundraising for our organization since the first year he joined our Board, six years ago. It is because of Dr. Kuntaraf that the President of HELP International has been very generous to support the several orphanages we support in Indonesia. Thank you, Dr. Kuntaraf, for accepting this new position and we assure you that we all feel honored to have you serve as chairman of our Board of Directors.
Restore A Child also will introduce three very prominent professionals who will join our board soon. Stay tuned!
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Korean Youth Mission Trip to Haiti
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Caption: Youth Group From Washington Central Korean Church |
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Restore A Child's President, Norma Nashed, shares her thoughts on a group of youth that are fundraising to join Restore A Child in an upcoming mission trip to Haiti December 27, 2011.
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I must admit that the Korean churches have shown that spirituality is more than attending church. Koreans are people who are generous and mission minded. So it was not surprising for me to find the youth of the Korean churches fired up on doing good to others. The youth of the Korean Baltimore Church and the Washington Central Korean Church, along with their pastors, have committed to help Restore A Child and its project in Haiti. They have already started fundraising and will be joining us on our mission to Haiti December 27-January 5, 2012.
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Restore A Child President Meets ADRA's President
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Dr. Rudi Maier
ADRA President
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During a meeting with Dr. Rudi Maier, ADRA's president, at its World Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, Norma Nashed expressed gratitude to Dr. Maier for his openness in exploring possible future collaboration in countries where both organizations have similar interests.
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Restore A Child has already made contact with several ADRA country Directors in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Kenya, who were happy to collaborate with our organization on joint similar projects.
"Dear Norma,
I cherish the opportunity of working with your organization and I will do my best for us to get going somehow. But it will have to be through our country offices. All the same I will discuss this project with the ADRA Kenya country director and feed you back."
Tayo Odeyemi, PhD
Executive Director
ADRA Africa Regional Office
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Restore A Child Embarks on Three New Humanitarian Projects:
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ACTS Partnership and New Orphanage
in Port au Prince, Haiti
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Caption: Norma and the children who study
in the one-room home in Port au Prince |
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Caption:children who were sleeping when RC arrived at
the orphanage
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This is a story of a single room orphanage that was started by a Haitian woman named Rose, who took in 20 little children who were orphaned after the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010. The love shown to these children is so obvious in her life. This generous woman saw the need and opened her heart and one-room home for these children.
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Rose recruited a young teacher who helps her in teaching the childen at home. The first photo was taken during an unannounced visit to Rose's home and the children were studying. The name given to this orphanage by ACTS World Relief is Johnny's Orphanage because of Johnny's touching story. When David Canther saw Johnny for the first time, Johnny could not walk on his legs. Although he looks like he is two years old, Johnny is actually five. With nourishment and medical care, Johnny is now the life of the home. Because of our donors who never "get weary from doing good" Johnny now has a future. Thank you.
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Feeding Program in Two Schools in Kenya
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Caption: Kiserian Primary School principal, Mr. John Monda, stressing a point as he discussed with a WCTU member
in front of the classrooms |
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Thanks to our donors, Restore A Child is starting a new feeding program for 600 poor students in two schools in Nairobi, who study in primitive classrooms as seen in the photos. Dr.Yetundi Odeyemi, ADRA Director/Kenya and Dr. Tayo Odeyemi, ADRA Director/Africa Region both will monitor the program with the assistant of Joy Butler, a missionary from Australia who lives in Nairobi and works for Adventist Health System Africa.
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Caption: Kiserian Primary School kitchen and its store of firewood for preparing food for pupils twice a day
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ADRA Directors Monitor Albino Girls
Project in Tanzania
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Restore A Child is currently working on a project for Albino girls in collaboration with ADRA Tanzania. As this project develops, we will be sharing more photos and details. Keep an eye out in next month's newsletter for more information on this great project!
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Current Updates on Restore A Child's Programs and Projects
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EDUCATION PROGRAM:
- Recently built a school for the Maasai children
- Currently sponsoring Haiti School
- Currently sponsoring 157 children in Ethiopia
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Caption: Children Learning in School RC Supports in Haiti |
Caption: Restore A Child President during her visit to
the school RC sponsors at EGO in Montgrouis, Haiti |
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Students Learn Physical Activity at Maasai School
At the school Restore A Child built for Maasai children in Namanga, Tanzania, children are involved in manual labor as well. The older children, with their teacher Moses, are seen clearing the land around the well we dug for them in 2010 in preparation for starting agriculture in the next few weeks. The students are ready to plant over 800 seedlings that we donated by Trees for the Future.
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Caption: Children and teachers of the Maasai
School RC built in Tanzania
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Caption: Maasai Children Tilling Soil in Tanzania
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FEEDING/AGRICULTURE:
- Providing food for school children in Tanzania, Bolivia, and Indonesia
- Supporting Agricultural efforts of Des Paul and the MultiHelp Orphanage in Harare, Zimbabwe. Especially his recent Dehydrating Project.
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Caption: Indonesia Purwodadi Orphanagem the
6th Orphanage RC supports in Indonesia |
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WATER PROGRAM:
- Providing fresh, clean water to entire villages and communities in Congo, Maasai Tanzania, Kenya, and Zimbabwe
- Establishing a pump for agriculture in Rwanda
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Caption: Maasai Women providing fresh water to
their children through RC's Water Program
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SHELTER PROGRAM:
- Built three homes in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe
- Supporting six orphanages in Indonesia
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Caption: An 11-year old girl with her sister in Namanga, Tanzania home. They have one brother also in the home. The children had no father and lost their mother during Norma's visit to Tanzania in 2010 and had no one to care for them. They were crying so bitterly because their mother had died the day before. "That was a heart-breaking scene" Norma says. The three children are safe at Dr. Kabati's home.
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Caption: 11 year old abandoned Maasai child helping teach her sister
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Caption: Maasai Children Singing in Tanzania Orphanage
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Caption: Elementary School Children of YAPI
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Message from the President
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A Tribute to ALL Mothers On Mothers’ Day
Restore A Child staff, acknowledges the sacrificial role of every mother and wishes ALL Mothers a special blessing from God on this Mothers’ Day.
Restore A Child would like to give special tribute to Paula Leen in Mutare, Zimbabwe; Dovona Church in Arusha, Tanzania; Melissa Harding and her mother in Rurenbaque, Bolivia; Mrs. MaGloire in Port au Prince, Haiti; Mrs. Kabati in Namanga, Tanzania; Betty Hewitt in Gusha, Kenya and six wives of directors who care for children in six orphanages in Indonesia, and so many more mothers who have given their lives (some of them 30 years) to children who lost their birth mothers.
This year is the first year that I don’t have my mother around. My mother died last July and I miss her continually but her example is ever present to guide me. But she left a legacy of love and caring to thousands of children around the world. Her sacrifice as a widow with elementary education only with seven orphans and penniless is a story of unshaken faith in God.
Intuitively, my mother repeatedly reminded me of principles recorded in Making Sense of Ministry:
1- Foundation of Ministry is Character
2- Nature of Ministry is Service
3- Motive of Ministry is Love
4- Measure of Ministry is Sacrifice
5- Authority of Ministry is Submission to God
6- Purpose of Ministry is Glory of God
Although Restore A Child is our new name, yet our ministry was birthed 12 years ago, and since then I have always tried to apply these principles which have proven our trustworthiness to our donors. In the next E-Update we will share with you some amazing testimonies by our biggest donors and why they continue to donate to Restore A Child and their unshaken trust in our integrity, accountability and transparency.
Through our monthly E-Updates our donors can know for certainty that their donations are at work to make a significant impact in the lives of marginalized children and their communities. Because of your donations, those women who sacrificed their whole lives to be mothers and save children can continue doing so in the most distant and difficult lands. We acknowledge every donor and send you, ALL our donors, our deepest gratitude for your generous continued support. We promise to give you an accurate report every month on how and where your funds are being used and the results achieved in changing the world by restoring one child at a time.
Norma Nashed
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