Orphan Outreach GuatemalaThe Legg FamilyAs many of you know the seed of the Friendship Tree was planted in
our hearts during our first trip to Guatemala to adopt our son Hunter.
While in Guatemala we saw the poverty and the children who were
suffering because of this. It broke our hearts and Scott and I decided
we wanted to do something to help them. After we returned home,
we started thinking of ways we could help and get our friends and
family involved as well. Two months later we made our second trip
to Guatemala to pick up Hunter. We brought Hunter home on October
5th, 2006. The urge to give back was even stronger now that we were
given the gift of a beautiful healthy son. We once again started thinking
of ways we could give back. During that holiday season, we saw a huge
need right here in our own community and decided that before we put
all our energy into another country, we needed to put it into our own
community.
I feel that the Friendship Tree has grown a strong root system
and is now in a position to extend one of its outreaching branches
to Guatemala. We have chosen October as Orphan Outreach
month. Each year in October we will collect an item needed by
the children who live in the orphanages. The needs continue to
grow and the orphanages are overflowing with children and the
caretakers are trying to care for them with little funding.
If the Friendship Tree could help these children with one little
item, it could make a BIG difference.
If you would like to donate to the Orphan Outreach project,
please send an email to friendshiptreeny@aol.com.
The Friendship Tree
Helping families turn a new leaf, one family at a time.
Over the last couple of years, I thought many times about how the Friendship Tree started and hoped one day that we could find a way to implement helping the orphaned children of Guatemala without taking away from the good work the Friendship Tree is doing in our local community.
UPDATE 2010
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2010 Orphan Outreach Project. This year we collected 942 pairs of new underwear for the children. A Mission Team from Arcadia University will deliver the underwear for us in January. Please check back in February for updates on their trip.
