Monday, October 06, 2008
If you have any questions about Voice for Change, our work, what goes on ...
or if you have been to Brasil and would like to know something about the children you met there ....
or if you would like to go to Brasil one day (maybe even in the next year or so!) .....
or you think you could sponsor a child in a favela in Brasil and change their life forever ...
or even help us to buy another house so that we can foster more children .... *
please read the website, and contact us www.vfcbrasil.com
We would love to hear from you!
* when we visited the 'home of passage' where children are housed while awaiting a place at a home like ours, we asked what we could do to most help the manager there .. her immediate reply was 'build ten more Voice for Change homes please'
or if you have been to Brasil and would like to know something about the children you met there ....
or if you would like to go to Brasil one day (maybe even in the next year or so!) .....
or you think you could sponsor a child in a favela in Brasil and change their life forever ...
or even help us to buy another house so that we can foster more children .... *
please read the website, and contact us www.vfcbrasil.com
We would love to hear from you!
* when we visited the 'home of passage' where children are housed while awaiting a place at a home like ours, we asked what we could do to most help the manager there .. her immediate reply was 'build ten more Voice for Change homes please'
Darla left Voice for Change on 30 September, after being with us from the start of our work, to prepare for her marriage to Alexandre in a few months' time.
She faithfully served the children of our foster homes for four years and then for the past 3 years she has headed up the team working in the favela, in the VfC centre there, leaving behind an established and growing work with 100 children at the centre every weekday.
When our foster home was robbed at gunpoint, it was Darla who took the children to her own home for their safety ...
It was Darla who inspired a large number of new supporters of VfC when she visited the UK in the summer of 2005, including some of our enthusiastic young fundraisers who have in turn been instrumental in raising the profile of VfC and taking the name of the charity to some of the highest places in the land....
It was Darla who travelled on the buses for 2 hours each morning and 2 hours each evening to get to the favela to serve the children who live there, feeding them as they came in hungry, teaching them, playing with them, giving them love and care and hope as she helped them with their lessons and their lives ...
We are so grateful for all that has been achieved through Darla's care, compassion and love for these children and the impact that she has had on many young lives.
We wish her well in her married life, and in all that she does in the future in the city of Bahia, as she and her new husband start on another exciting new venture together!
Thank you Darla!
She faithfully served the children of our foster homes for four years and then for the past 3 years she has headed up the team working in the favela, in the VfC centre there, leaving behind an established and growing work with 100 children at the centre every weekday.
When our foster home was robbed at gunpoint, it was Darla who took the children to her own home for their safety ...
It was Darla who inspired a large number of new supporters of VfC when she visited the UK in the summer of 2005, including some of our enthusiastic young fundraisers who have in turn been instrumental in raising the profile of VfC and taking the name of the charity to some of the highest places in the land....
It was Darla who travelled on the buses for 2 hours each morning and 2 hours each evening to get to the favela to serve the children who live there, feeding them as they came in hungry, teaching them, playing with them, giving them love and care and hope as she helped them with their lessons and their lives ...
We are so grateful for all that has been achieved through Darla's care, compassion and love for these children and the impact that she has had on many young lives.
We wish her well in her married life, and in all that she does in the future in the city of Bahia, as she and her new husband start on another exciting new venture together!
Thank you Darla!
It is only six weeks to the running of the Curtiba marathon on 23 November, and our team is getting into the final countdown as far as their training goes ...
we will keep you informed of their thoughts and hopes through the blog over the next few weeks!
The team flies out on 15 November, but if you would like to come and experience authentic Brasilian cuisine and learn more about our work this month, please come to our Brasilian evening at Bawdeswell on Wednesday 22 October at 7.30pm.
More details are at www.theparkonline.org
we will keep you informed of their thoughts and hopes through the blog over the next few weeks!
The team flies out on 15 November, but if you would like to come and experience authentic Brasilian cuisine and learn more about our work this month, please come to our Brasilian evening at Bawdeswell on Wednesday 22 October at 7.30pm.
More details are at www.theparkonline.org
this is Isis,
and this is Gabriele
We have two new children in Casa Dourada.
Val says ''Isis, she is 7 old years. She is going to be 8 years old in November. She is lovely, Isis has blond hair and the blue eyes. She was removed of the mother because stayed always alone at home, while the mother works. In fact she was removed by neglect of the mother, absence of basic cares. Luiz-Claudio and Darci are very happy with her. When I collected Isis in 'Home of Passage', she was afraid, I calmed she and said that home that she would go to live was well lawful, yesterday when was there she already was well to 'come home' with L-C and Darci and said to me that she liked very of come for Casa Dourada. ''
and Gabriele is the latest addition to the Casa Dourada family - who came to us at the end of September
Val again .. ''she has 9 years old, she lived with adopted parents, that were prisoners by will be traffickers of drugs. the Gabi's mother gave she for that couple take care. She is lovely. ''
You can sponsor one of these children - please contact us now ...
