If you have an extra $10 and 5 minutes to spare, you very well might be able to change several little lives. Facebook is hosting a ‘giving challenge’ and Love Without Boundaries is a frontrunner for the BIG win. By BIG, I mean $50,000 worth. That’s enough money to fund quite a few life saving surgeries for little ones who desperately need them in China. To learn more go HERE. You have to join in order to donate but it just takes a couple minutes to set up an account. Once you have donated you can delete your account, if you choose (which is what I’m gonna do ;)) Another thing you can do once you’ve donated is give yourself a pat on the back for giving to a cause that is truly changing the lives and futures of hundreds and hundreds of orphans in China.
Here is a note from Amy Eldridge of LWB, it’s worth taking a few minutes out of your day to read:
My message is a bit long today but I hope you will read it to the end. We have just 24 hours left in the Giving Challenge contest on Facebook. 24 hours to try and stay in the lead. And we can’t do it without you. As I type this, I am staring at the photos of 12 babies who are hurting because they were born with heart disease. Their eyes truly haunt me, first because they are orphaned and as a mother it is hard to accept that any child has to be sick without a mom or dad to comfort them….but second because I know that without surgery, the pictures I have of these children might be their last. Do you know how small a baby’s heart is? And how fragile an orphan’s life is when that tiny heart has a defect? These pictures are of children who are blue, children who are tired, children who NEED OUR HELP. I also have on my desk the photos of children whose hearts we have healed. They stare out at me with pink cheeks and smiles, and in many…with their new adoptive families. THIS is what it is all about. Saving lives, giving a second chance, and allowing a child to find their family and know complete love. In the next 24 hours we have a chance to give the GIFT OF LIFE to 10 more children in need. The charity with the most unique $10 donors at 12 noon PST on February 1st will win $50,000. Heart surgery in China averages just $5000 per child, so with that prize….ten children can have a second chance at life. I am not going to ask you today to find 10 more donors, or even 5 more donors to help us. I am asking you to find just ONE person in your life that hasn’t donated and to ask that person to please help you save a life. For just $10. If all of us do this, we could have over a thousand new donors in just one day. How often do we spend $10 on things that last just a moment? $10 for two fancy coffees, $10 for a movie and popcorn, $10 for a dinner out. How about for today, for the next 24 hours, we all find $10 for something that will last a LIFETIME. $10 to save a baby’s life and allow a priceless child (who is orphaned and totally innocent) to get a second chance at finding a family to love them. Find just one friend in the next 24 hours, and encourage them to join our cause and donate. $10 for the life of a child. Of all the money you have spent this week….this might be the most important. Thank you EVERYONE for keeping LWB in the running for the top prize. We love our supporters and give thanks everyday for the amazing generosity, compassion, and kindness you show to those who live as orphans each and every day. We truly are a family, bound together by the belief that every child born on this earth matters. Here’s the link! http://apps.facebook.com/causes/view_cause/51591
Let’s do it for the kids.
Amy
I know you lead a peaceful life when I check your blog and see that you have taken time from your busy day to bring attention to even more children.
Do you think you can bring some extra attention to another China baby? I wrote about her on my blog, but I swear only like 2 people read it, but she REALLY needs a family. Only if you have a chance and you want to. I wrote about her on Monday, Jan. 28.
You don’t need to print this on your blog if you don’t want to.(I don’t want to bother you).
Take care and have an AWESOME day!:)
You have such a big heart, Cate! You, bothering me?? Not at all! I have THREE toddlers that do that ALL day 😉
I posted your comment so others can follow the link to your blog to see the little one that has captured your heart 🙂 I hope and pray that she finds her family soon!
Thank you so much Stefanie!!! Hopefully someone will see her and recognize she belongs with them or maybe with someone they know. Thanks!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU STEFANIE FOR POSTING THIS!!!
Please also pray that God will help us. We need everyone we can to win this for the kids. Thanks also to anyone who will consider joining. It is all for the little ones in China.
Melissa
Oh I hope and pray LWB WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A fabulous, worthy, precious organization!
And I’m happy the raffle-rama is back on for everyone!
I’m with Melissa….THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for posting this. Every single person that signs up and donates just $10 can help turn that money into $50,000!
Hi, I enjoyed your blog. We are paperchasing for our little Emily. Lifeline did our homestudy. Can i ask you how long you had to wait for I600 after fingerprints?Any tips? We have our appt. on Monday. We so want to travel before the Olympics. God is telling His story through your amazing family. Any advice on the paperchase? Emily will be our 6th child – first adopted.
Blessings,
Christine
Hi Christine! Congratulations on your new daughter! Is she on Lifeline’s current list?
We were not fingerprinted for this 171 since our fingerprints for the last 171 had not expired 😉 So sorry, I can’t give you a timeline for that. I would expect it to be less than a month, though! If you’d like to talk more, just leave a comment with your email address and I’ll email you privately. I won’t post your comment with your email in it 🙂
Blessings to you ~
Thank you Stephanie for the heads up on this. I just donated, but still looks a little far behind, and LWB is still in 2nd place. They had 6 hours left when I donated this am. You get a lot of readers on your blog, so I hope many of your bloggy friends will donate, and help bring those sweet babies up to #1.
Thanks again, and now I’m going to have to sit down and see what this Facebook is all about.
LWB is the “unofficial” winner at this point.
The $93,731 donated + the $50,000 grand prize + the $12, 000 from the daily wins =
$155,731 =
31 CHILDREN THAT GET LIFESAVING HEART SURGERY!!!!
YAY!!!
Thanks for posting this and letting people know. :))