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Huge Announcement!!!! LuckyHill Orphanage Charity Event

Huge Announcement!!!! LuckyHill Orphanage Charity Event

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I am thrilled beyond words to announce this charity event. This has been a little project of mine that I have had a hard time keeping a secret. I did not want to announce it before I knew for sure that it would actually happen. My absolutely wonderful friend Amy (she is also an awesome photographer) is adopting a little girl from Ghana this spring. I was talking to her about it a month ago and was asking what the orphanage may be in need of. She explained how the orphanage, named LuckyHill, is a children’s home & school located in Ghana. Right now, there is a desperate need for lunches for the 300 children attending the school. It costs .30 a day to feed one child a lunch of rice and red sauce. For many of these children, this is the only meal they will get for the day. The goal is to provide lunch for all 300 students. I came up with an idea for a photography charity event. So many of my clients have been asking me all year if I would do my “school photo special” that I had run in previous years. My schedule has been so demanding this year I had not been able to offer it yet. So why not turn my normal special into a charity event. I contacted my business friend Lindy, at Four Chairs Furniture in Lindon, I asked if we could use her very cute furniture as the backdrop for these photos, plus her store has amazing natural light so all the photos could be indoors. She said “absolutely.” Then it was onto convincing my husband to agree that this was a worthy project to take on (I take on way to many projects and often burn myself outanyway he said “how could you not do this, those little kids need help” My heart smiled and my eyes welled up with tears. I couldn’t wait to call Amy and let her know that it was all a “go!” So what does this mean for my wonderful clients, well you just need to email me so I can give you an appointment time and then go to Four Chairs on Saturday Feb 20 and I will take adorable, cute, you will love them for life photos of your child for only $30 a child. Then you will receive, a week or so later, a cd with the best 3 to 5 photos on them. 100% of the $30 goes straight to the Lucky Hill Foundation to feed the kids.

If you are reading this from out of state and would like to contribute please email me and I can send you the info on how to send money directly to the foundation. Below is a flyer Amy designed, we will be posting it at different locations in Utah county. If you would like to help get the word out, feel free to link to this post or I could give you a poster or flyers to pass out at your business or school. If you are a photographer outside of Utah and would like to run a similar event to help LuckyHill, please contact me.

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Infant Born To Mentally-ill Mother Finds No Takers

Infant Born To Mentally-ill Mother Finds No Takers

by Kapil Datta

February 04, 2010

HINDUSTAN TIMES

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Hawaii adoption agencies merging

Posted on: Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Hawaii adoption agencies merging

Nonprofits cite need to cut costs, expand their reach

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By Eloise Aguiar

Desperate parents' plea: Please take our children

Posted on Tuesday, 02.02.10

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THE CHILDREN

Desperate parents' plea: Please take our children

Parents try to make the ultimate sacrifice -- giving their kids to strangers so they'll be taken out of Haiti.

Musiol zu Auslandsadoptionen: Lizenz zum Kinderhandel abschaffen

Musiol zu Auslandsadoptionen: Lizenz zum Kinderhandel abschaffen

Utl.: Österreich ist säumig bei der Umsetzung von internationalen Übereinkommen =

Wien (OTS) - "Derzeit werden in Haiti Kinder auf illegale Weise

ihren Eltern entzogen, um der Adoption zugeführt zu werden. Solche

Adoptionen können auch in Österreich passieren", stellt die Familien-

The Morning Show

The Morning Show - February 2, 2010 at 7:00am

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Haïti: Paris propose la création d'une commission bilatérale pour étudier les dossiers d'adoption

Haïti: Paris propose la création d'une commission bilatérale pour étudier les dossiers d'adoption

AP | 05.02.2010 | 15:12

La France va proposer aux autorités haïtiennes la création d'une commission bilatérale chargée d'examiner les dossiers d'adoption d'enfants pour lesquels aucun jugement n'avait été rendu avant le séisme du 12 janvier, ou n'a pu être produit suite à la catastrophe, a annoncé vendredi le Quai d'Orsay.

L'ambassadeur chargé de l'adoption internationale Jean-Paul Monchau est "actuellement à Port-au-Prince pour proposer aux autorités haïtiennes un mécanisme conjoint, une commission bilatérale, qui nous permette de traiter ensemble, là-bas, les dossiers d'adoption", a expliqué le porte-parole Bernard Valero lors d'un point de presse.

Cette commission est d'une part destinée à "faciliter le traitement des procédures pour lesquelles des éléments probants permettent d'établir l'existence d'un jugement mais qui ne peut être produit suite au séisme" du 12 janvier, selon un communiqué de M. Valero. Et d'autre part à "émettre des recommandations pour les procédures dans lesquelles aucun jugement haïtien n'avait été rendu avant le séisme".

Child arrives from Haiti

Child arrives from Haiti

Posted on February 1, 2010 | By Kathryn Flagg Bridport

TWO-YEAR-OLD Gedeleine has been adjusting to new experiences like riding in a car seat and wearing shoes, which she never did in the Haitian orphanage where she spent the last two years. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

BRIDPORT — Three weeks ago, Gedeleine Franklin was bundled out of the orphanage she knew as home after a slip in an underwater fault plunged Haiti into chaos.

Ten days ago, the two-year-old little girl was hustled onto an airplane with 80 other children bound for Miami. Aid workers, airline employees and orphanage volunteers cradled the children as they made the halting, unfamiliar trek out of Haiti.

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