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GIVEAWAY TO FEED 5,000 CHILDREN

You heard right we are doing a giveaway to feed 5,000 children. When I traveled in May 2010, we visited a city, Kroo Bay (the poorest place on earth according to the UN) where many orphaned and abandonded children live. In my hour I spent there I probably have 10+ children approach me as orphans needing a home, food, and a family to love them. Honestly, this is where my heart broke and it broke hard for these children. So the TRS team traveling in January has the opportunity to feed 5,000 children and we can't do it without the financial support needed to feed them. It only costs .50 (yes I said 50 Cents) per child, which is $2,500 total. Click HERE if you would like to donate directly to the Kroo Bay feeding program.

 This is there primary water supply in Kroo Bay

So in order to help the team traveling raise the funds needed to accomplish this we are going to do a GIVEAWAY to help spread the word. One winner will win 1 new simply love tee shirt. One more winner will win 1 Magazine necklace. Check them out HERE



Here’s what you need to do to enter: (you pick 2)

1. Write a blog post about the Giveaway and inspire your readers to enter the contest!! You can use any post or pic on my blog.

2. Shout out on FB, Twitter, or an email blast and share the Giveaway and Kroo Bay paypal link to your friends and family!

3. Purchase a Simply Love Sierra Leone shirt or Magazine Necklace (all proceeds will go towards Kroo Bay feeding program)

4. Donate thru the Kroo Bay feeding program link located above

Now, leave me a comment right here on the blog post on how you entered the Giveaway today and your blog address or email. I will randomly select a winner from the blog comments on Monday December 20th.

(PLEASE NOTE WE HAVE 20 SHIRTS IN STOCK(please email me at tiff.johnson85@gmail.com for available sizes)  WILL ONLY BE ABLE TO SELL/GIVEAWAY THE SIZES WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN STOCK) Thank you for understanding this!

HIV/AIDS

Today is national HIV/AIDS awareness day and although the children we are adopting don't have AIDS I have seen the ill iffects of it first hand. No they are no different than you and I on the surface. AIDS/HIV is TREATABLE in the U.S. but unfortunately in a 3rd world country like Sierra Leone it is not. A good friend of our's posted it very clearly written on her facebook today "In the US, an HIV+ child will grow up, go to college, get married, have kids & live a normal life with a projected normal lifespan. In a developing nation, 50% of HIV+ kiddos die before they're 2 years old... So when people ask "why do you work in other countries when there are needs in the US?" ... This is why folks..... This is why...."

I have been thinking alot today about this issue we are faced with a disease that is treatable but not curable. Our good friend Lori who I and Rich had the opportunity to travel with to SL this year, her soon to be adopted children's mother is HIV+, I watched her bond with the biological mother of her children and watching them laugh and cry together. It really touched my life, before Lori had came in Sept 2009, her children's mother was on her death bed, dying from this horrible disease. She now has the treatments available to treat the disease and has made an incredible difference from the pictures I saw of the Sept 2009 trip. One life changed all because of treatment, which you can provide for any child suffering with this disease.

I am so grateful for the nation we live in and the opportunities such as life that we are given. If you would like more information on how to sponsor a child thru TRS that you can help for as little as $20 a month please visit here You can change the life on an Orphan forever.