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Raffle For Haiti
Corey is a women who writes the blog Watching the Waters that I read often. She has kids adopted from Haiti and a passion for helping the people from the country where her kids were born. She is holding a raffle to benefit Heartline Ministries, a really amazing program in Haiti. More

Judging and Stereotyping: Who I DONT Want To Be
I think as I research more and talk with more missionaries and read books about human rights, I learn more about the kind of humanitarian I want to be... by learning what I DON'T want to be. Has anyone ever seen the movie Trade? Well, if you haven't; watch it. It's pretty amazing. It is about human sex trafficking from Mexico to the United States. There is one part in the movie where the 2 girls being trafficked are caught by the police trying to cross the border into the States with the men who have captured them. They are brought to a jailed area to be escorted back to Mexico that day. While there, an American highschool Spanish class comes to do community service work and to practice the

Christmas Prep
Wow... I can't believe how soon I leave! My school's TAs (tutorial assistants) are on strike, so a few of my classes are cancelled, leaving me with most of the afternoon with nothing to do. I took the opportunity to get some things ready for the DR! I took a picture of the vitamins (see earlier post) and then got Xmas presents ready. I have SO many donations that I am not sure I will be able to bring everything. The most important things are 1) vitamins, 2) Christmas presents, and 3) gifts from sponsors for the kids. I can't bring presents for all the kids I love, but I did get a little something special for my 2 favourite families whom I have become especially close to; Daniela's family; D

Vitamin Update
A huge thank you to everyone who donated Shoppers Drug Mart points to launch a Vitamin program for the Dove Missions kids. I now have 7800 vitamins to bring with me this Christmas, and we plan to launch the program the first week of the New Year. With the amount of vitamins we have, there is enough vitamins for half of the kids (so, around 40 kids) to last about 8 months. We have not decided yet if we will decide which gets are included by gender (either all the girls or all the boys) or by age (all the kids 9 and under). It would be AMAZING if we could pull together even more vitamns... enough, eventually so that ALL of the kids can have a vitamin a day. If you didn't get a cha

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