Because of YOU!!!

Because of YOU!!!

Project COLORS International
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Aug 2006

Great news everyone,

Our new project is well on the way!!!!

Not only on the way, but it is happening right now.

The response from everyone back in home has been truly amazing!

When I arrived at the children’s home they were so excited to receive the lice shampoos and funds for the water from all of you.

They jumped on the phone right away to call the water delivery truck.

While I was there, the truck arrived and filled up their very dry well.

Perfect timing, because they truly had almost no water. Crazy!

I got lots of photos.

I was happy that we could start implement everything outlined in our project goals so fast. Thanks to you!!!

The truck loads of water will continue to come whenever the water gets low until we come up with a more sustainable solution.

More lice shampoo and other remedies are on the way. It has actually been kind of funny dragging around my UN co-workers to help me inquire (in Spanish) about discounts on lice shampoo and hauling random home remedies for lice from the grocery store.

Shortly, COLORS will like to branch out again into helping the children’s home with food donations, school supplies and other needed items.

EVEN MORE EXCITING NEWS: We are seriously looking into the possibility of hiring a school teacher for the young children (who currently have no access to education). Meetings, budgets and contracts are in the works to try and make this a reality really soon.

Thanks again everyone for making all this happen so fast.

Regards,

Sunyata Choyce

Project COLORS International

choyce@projectcolors.com

www.projectcolors.com

No water .................. but lots of lice!

Welcome Back to Project COLORS International

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Aug 17^th 2006

No water .................. but lots of lice!

~Can you imagine a children’s home full of lice and not enough lice shampoo or water to remedy the situation! Not only can I imagine it, I’m seeing it,

but they are the ones living it each day.~

Greetings fellow COLORS supporters,

I find myself once again here in the Dominican Republic. Luckily I have had the pleasure to revisit the kids of Jackie’s Children’s Home which many of you helped support last year.

Wow, the babies are now walking and talking! So nice to see.

They have a bigger house now, however, the number of children has grown as well. Last year they had 25 kids… now they have over 40 small children.

As you all know, I often have the luck of walking into the middle of a crisis of some sort.

Yesterday, when I was visiting the children, they were in a mini state of emergency.

Lice, has taken over the children’s home (yes, again… fun stuff!!).

Not only that, but they are also out of water (even better!)

What a mess.

Since they have had so many children coming through that need various treatments for lice, fungus etc… they have exhausted their supply of these medications. The lice is so bad that many of the children must have their hair cut short (there were many new hairdos yesterday!!!!)

To add to the drama, they have also been out of water of several weeks now.

Twice a week they have to order expensive loads of water that are delivered to the house. This is 800 pesos (around $30 each)…. That is $60 a week, plus the purified drinking water ($40 a month), since the water in the DR is undrinkable.

Can you imagine a children’s home full of lice and not enough lice shampoo or water to remedy the situation! Not only can I imagine it, I’m seeing it first hand, but they are the ones living it each day.

However, believe it or not, this is an easy one problem solve!

This will be a one or two month emergency project. (I can start ASAP)

Through COLORS I would like to directly purchase the water to be delivered to the children’s home for the next month or two (while we wait for the landlord to fix the main problem or find a sustainable solution).

I can also purchase the lice shampoo right now.

· *If anyone wants to help with this project, please e-mail me so I can arrange the budget and time frame.*

· sunnychoyce@yahoo.ca or choyce@projectcolors.com

Welcome back again to Project COLORS!

Sincerely,

Sunyata Choyce