So what happened in 2009 ?

First, we would like to thank those who have made sacrifices to support this year. I am aware that some of our supporters have even lost their homes this year, yet we have not lost their support. We keep this in mind as we use the monies given to us, to use those funds with care.
Thank you.

Well if you have time you should look back over the past blog posts to see the pictures and get more information.

In short; we continued to helped raise 36 children along with 6 other staff.
We accepted 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls throughout the year.
We have 8 children learning and playing music on the drums, piano, guitar, and electric guitar.
11 of the children have been using the computers learning to use Word, Excel and email. 28 of the children are studying English.

On average or children have between 50 to 60 students per class.
29 of our 36 children are placing top ten in their class.
22 of our children have improved their school score on average of 14 places.

VeChi at age 13 skipped 3 grades from being in 3rd grade not knowing his alphabet or how to read or write to being in the 7th grade knowing how to read and write, learning English and playing the guitar is now number 10 in his class.

SreyOwn went from 44th place second years ago to placing number one the last two months.

Needless to say I glow with joy when I get their scores. I am so happy and proud of their work.

We currently own 12 pigs, 9 of them reproducing mothers. We have 10 goats still and 13 turkeys, some rabbits, geese, chickens and fish.

We repaired water damage in the upstairs bathroom.
We are building a small house for our laborer.
We had a bio-digester methane producing waste tank built that replaced most of our propane usage.
We built a worm farm, micro fish farm, and composting area.

Some of our trees we planted from seed have began to produce this year.

We will add tile to the children walls and repaint the interior next year.

Our July Firecracker Golf Tournament was a blessing raising over $12,000. US dollars or their college education. There is another event planned for July 2010.

For the future we hope to expand our properties to build a team house, medical clinic and possible a private school to cope with the over crowding and poor education our children get at the local school.

You can always connect with me via Facebook or emailing us and I’ll do my best to answer your questions.

Have a wonderful New Year,
Kit