[PAA-Discuss] Sponsoring Afghan Orphans

[Juli3 at aol.com]

Dear friends, 

Please see the appeal from our sisters at RAWA below,  and feel free to pass 
it on to your contacts. 

- Afghan Women's  Mission

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Growing Child  Sponsorship Program Needs Your Help
New Orphanages Needed!

Dear RAWA  Supporter:

We are writing today because there is an urgent need in our  growing 
child sponsorship program. This program, which enables sponsors to  build 
relationships with their sponsored child via the internet, has filled  
our existing orphanage facilities. To aid the children still living in  
dire situations, we urgently need to add more of these facilities. To  
help us to meet this need, our partners, CharityHelp International and  
Afghan’s Women’s Mission, have assisted us in implementing  a 
program to 
enable individuals or organizations to contribute towards an  entire 
orphanage. You and/or your organization can support this effort by  
providing one-time or on-going operational support for starting new  
orphanages that we expect will eventually become self-sustaining through  
our child sponsorship program. For more information on how this can  
easily be done online, see www.charityhelp.org/rawa.

You and/or your  organization can support an orphanage at increasing 
levels up to founding a  complete orphanage. Should you and/or your 
organization decide to do this,  you and/or your organization would 
instrumental in helping us change  hundreds (if not, thousands) of lives 
over the coming years. The founder of  an orphanage would only need to 
support the initial cost of setting up the  orphanage. CharityHelp 
International and other supporters would take care of  all the 
administration associated with running this project along with  on-going 
solicitation of child and sustaining sponsorships to support annual  costs.

If paid via our website, for $16,000 you and/or your organization  can 
become a silver level founding sponsor of a new orphanage (see  
https://charityhelp.org/sponsor/founding_sponsorship.php).  
Alternatively, if you and/or your organization are able to pay the money  
directly to RAWA so we do not need to pay the credit card processor and  
the International Humanity Center (which provides charitable status in  
the US); the amount needed can be reduced to $14,500.

Our costs at  the orphanages have dramatically increased recently for 
many reasons  including the over 50% increase in rents due to the recent 
devastating  earthquake. Unfortunately, these costs are even higher in 
war-torn  Afghanistan. Even though the orphanage operating costs are 
still lower in  Pakistan we are driven by the need to work towards going 
home. Those of us  who live in Pakistan still live as refugees and could 
be forced to leave at  any time by the Pakistan government. As well, the 
children deserve to live  in orphanages close to their native homes where 
they can visit their  remaining relatives as often as possible. We are 
nurturing the next  generation of Afghan citizens and can do so in our 
native land with your  support. Unfortunately, current sponsorship levels 
do not support the  operating costs for Afghanistan or Pakistan. So, in 
an effort to keep our  individual child sponsorship price as low as 
possible, CharityHelp  International has developed a way for dono! rs to 
support the whole  orphanage via the sustaining sponsorship program. For 
more information, see:  
https://charityhelp.org/sponsor/orphanage_sponsor.php

To commemorate  these donations, CharityHelp International is announcing 
the virtual  “Wall of Honour”. To honour the founding sponsors,  
CharityHelp International will create a special page on their website  
announcing each new orphanage and its Founding Sponsor/s. You and/or  
your organization will be recognized on a plaque at the orphanage as the  
founding sponsor.

*Spread the Word*

Please feel free to  forward this email to any interested person. We are 
also looking for  feedback on these new opportunities or any additional 
ideas you may have to  generate support for RAWA’s orphanages. If you 
have comments,  questions, or ideas about CharityHelp International’s 
new 
orphanage  sponsorship program please send them a note to 
orphanagefund at charityhelp.org  <mailto:orphanagefund at charityhelp.org>

In  partnership,

RAWA
rawa-pr at rawa.org



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*Revolutionary  Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
* Mailing Address: RAWA,  P.O.Box 374, Quetta, Pakistan
Mobile: 0092-300-5541258
Fax:  0044-870-8312326
E-mail: rawa at rawa.org <mailto:rawa at rawa.org>
Home  Page: http://www.rawa.org
Mirror site:  http://www.rawa.us

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