Tom and I have been living the good life in Omaha these last few weeks. It's snowy and beautiful here -a winter I haven't experienced in maybe twenty years. We're living with Tom's brother Patrick and his girlfriend Hannah who are super cool and have been amazingly kind to take us into their home for so long. Tom's been working at his friend Tony's auto body shop welding racks and doing other fun maintenance jobs, and I've been working with my friend Annemarie at Voices For Children, a non profit that works to promote better education, health, justice, and all those other rights that kids are not always afforded.
We lucked out in both the house and the job departments, and we think we've got enough in the bank to cover the cost of our AT hike (even with good health insurance thrown in there -don't get me started on that one). So, given our good fortune, we're changing our plan of giving 80% of donations collected through our Hike to End Hunger, and we'll now be giving 100% of donations to Heifer International projects in Bolivia.
Heifer International does wonderful work, and we're excited to provide even more support to families in Bolivia that can't afford to eat well. With the added twenty percent of donations that will now go to Heifer, we'll be able to get another llama! And that's just based off of donations we've already received. We hope friends and family will continue to contribute to our Hike to End Hunger in the coming weeks as we prepare for this great adventure.
Thanks, all, for your continued support!
3 comments:
Caught your blog on Google Alert. It is wonderful what you are doing, and thanks so much for the support! You should check out Team Heifer http://www.heifer.org/team Team Heifer is an online Heifer fundraising community, and a great way to get your audience invovled in your efforts.
Thanks again!
Hi Jon. How to cool to hear from you! Thanks for your support. We did look into doing a Team Heifer page. It's a great resource, for both donors and fundraisers, but it did not give us the flexibility to donate the funds specifically to the Heifer projects in Bolivia -so we took this blog/paypal approach.
From a quick google search I see you're a part of the Heifer mid-west region support team. Keep up the great work! And feel free to pass our blog along to anyone you think might be interested. Peace,
Anna
i believe i saw one mr. tom sullivan lurking outside the ol' house on elliot today...could the great sullivans be in town? please email me if you are, would love to see y'all before you head off to the trail!
xx pirtle
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