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Our new doma video PLUS another year-end matching gift challenge!!!
Last December, we welcomed the challenge of doubling a $27,000 matching gift challenge to benefit doma’s work fighting human trafficking. It was a great success and a joyful way to end the year! Thank you to those of you who participated in the hope and healing in 2011 for so many women and children in America and across the globe!!!
Doma was once again challenged this week with an amazing opportunity – a donor would like to give a generous $35,000 toward supporting doma’s work in East Africa, Eastern Europe, and the US. Help us double this gift by December 31st. Yes, that’s right… we are working to raise $35,000 for a grand total of $70,000 by the end of the year!
Watch our new, beautiful doma video to hear the stories of hope from 2011. (You might want to grab a few tissues…!!) Read on to hear what your generous gifts will accomplish…
In the US… doma is launching Freedom a la Cart and Freedom Café in 2012, a social enterprise that teaches job and life skills to survivors of human trafficking while preparing and serving organic and delicious food through a food cart, catering business, and café. With each purchase, patrons learn about the fight against modern-day slavery and the life-changing restoration of vulnerable women and children in the US.
In Eastern Europe… young girls grow up in orphanages without the affection of parents or the attachment of caregivers. So when they find themselves pregnant as teenagers, they are not prepared to raise their own children. Approximately 1/3 of Russian orphans are children of Russian orphans. Through doma’s efforts for vulnerable moms and young ladies in St. Petersburg and Kostroma, doma is mentoring and equipping young women to become great mothers. Supported mothers in Russia will result in fewer orphaned children.
In East Africa… a shocking number of women die from childbirth related causes. Estimates range from 1 in 5 to 1 in 11. This avoidable tragedy results in millions of orphaned children. doma’s Hidota Health Center in the beautiful, remote, mountain village of Bora will serve several poor communities with a population of more than 10,000 people. (Hidota means ‘hope’ in the Gamogna, the local language.) Mothers will benefit from attended births; children will benefit from nutrition and good, clean water; the community will benefit from education on sustainable living.
In the next few days, please make a decision about your 2011 financial gift to doma, and begin thinking about how to volunteer and travel with us in 2012. You can visit www.domaconnection.org and make a gift using your VISA or MasterCard. Write US, Eastern Europe, or East Africa in the ‘Notes’. Or you can mail a check to Doma International, PO Box 21987, Columbus, OH 43221. Write US, Eastern Europe, or East Africa on the memo line.
Thank you!
Peace and Joy to you!
Julie
