Wednesday, January 27, 2016
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Paper for Water
Sister Yen Pham, your work is GORGEOUS!! Thank you so much!! I think we can raise close to $1,000 with what you've given us. That will help fund 20% of a well in India. Isabelle and Katherine was so impressed with your work. We will post a picture tomorrow on our facebook fanpage. If you are ever in Dallas, we'd love to meet you and if we are in OK City we'll try to visit. We'd be happy to send you paper if you would like to continue your amazing folding.
***Now that we have Catholic nuns folding, we know for sure that God is helping support us.
HBTT rat la vui lien lac duoc voi 2 em nho nay rat la dac biet, vi minh cung rat la hung thu cho nhung cai projects de giup nhung nguoi ngheo. Thinh thoang, ngoai ve, quilling, lam tho, viet van, ca hat, trong cay kien, nau an, lam banh le, cau nguyen, quet nha, minh cung thich mon gap giay, lam bao nhieu cung cho di rat la nhieu. Nay rat la vui duoc biet 2 em nho nay chon mon gap giay de lam viec thien xay gieng cho the gioi. Minh da goi di 1 cai thung rat la lon, co 14 trai banh kusudama, va 6 ngoi sao mobil. Va rat la vui ho phan doan co the xay duoc 1 gieng nuoc cho Idia. Cam ta Chua cho con quen 2 em nho nay, va chuc cho 2 em tiep tuc cong viec nay mai. What a blessing!
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Monday, January 4, 2016
Young Sisters Raise $650,000 Folding Origami to Build Wells Across World
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aise $650,000 Folding Origami to Build Wells Across World
Normally, paper and water create a soggy mess, but add origami to the mix and you get clean water flowing through the hearts of two sisters and 70 newly drilled wells in Africa, India, Mexico, Peru, and the U.S.
It all started after 5-year-old Katherine Adams began folding origami with her father after they dropped off her older sister at school.
When Katherine learned that millions of people go thirsty every day—and many girls can’t even go to school because they spend all day hauling water—she decided to put her paper-folding skills to good use.
With the help of her dad, she would try to raise money to build a well in Ethiopia by hosting an origami sale at a local Starbucks in Dallas, Texas. Her mom and 8-year-old sister, Isabelle, began to fold, along with other volunteers who asked to join the effort.
The girls set a $500 goal and got busy folding dozens of origami ornaments in the autumn of 2011. The ornaments sold out by the end of their first day at Starbucks and, just eight weeks later, the girls had raised over $10,000, enough to cover the cost of a new well to benefit the entire village.
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Almost four years later, the sisters—now 9 and 11—are co-presidents of Paper for Water, an organization whose hundreds of paper-folding volunteers have helped raise over $650,000. The girls have been tapped as keynote speakers and have even been given what amounts to a lifetime achievement award from nonprofit Living Water International.
Globally, 783 million people lack access to clean water
and more than a billion lack appropriate sanitation facilities, a
problem the girls’ dad, Ken Adams, M.D., said would cost some $20
billion to solve. Sounds like a lot, but when you consider that people
in the U.S. spend over $400 billion during holiday gift-giving season
each year, his daughters see it as “definitely doable” to eradicate
global thirst in their lifetime.
“If everyone in this world helps a little, it all adds up to a lot,” Isabelle told Good News Network. “Folding origami is an easy way for people of any age to help change the world.”
The Adams family has visited two of the wells made possible through Paper for Water —one in India a couple Christmases ago, and one this past Monday on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. Eager to meet as many of the families as possible who have benefited from Paper for Water’s work, the family is planning a 2017 world tour.
The girls teach their craft wherever they go.
“It’s fun and it’s social and it’s a good way to use your brain to help other people,” Katherine said.
The simplest Paper for Water ornament takes an hour to make—and some can take more than five. One volunteer put over 22 hours into a single ornament, which will be on display at the girls’ exhibit at the Paper Discovery Center in Appleton, Wisconsin, starting in September.
You can buy the ornaments online at their website.
Photos via Paper for Water, Facebook
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aise $650,000 Folding Origami to Build Wells Across WorldNormally, paper and water create a soggy mess, but add origami to the mix and you get clean water flowing through the hearts of two sisters and 70 newly drilled wells in Africa, India, Mexico, Peru, and the U.S.
It all started after 5-year-old Katherine Adams began folding origami with her father after they dropped off her older sister at school.
When Katherine learned that millions of people go thirsty every day—and many girls can’t even go to school because they spend all day hauling water—she decided to put her paper-folding skills to good use.
With the help of her dad, she would try to raise money to build a well in Ethiopia by hosting an origami sale at a local Starbucks in Dallas, Texas. Her mom and 8-year-old sister, Isabelle, began to fold, along with other volunteers who asked to join the effort.
The girls set a $500 goal and got busy folding dozens of origami ornaments in the autumn of 2011. The ornaments sold out by the end of their first day at Starbucks and, just eight weeks later, the girls had raised over $10,000, enough to cover the cost of a new well to benefit the entire village.
SEE More Inspiring Kids’ Stories at Good News Network
Almost four years later, the sisters—now 9 and 11—are co-presidents of Paper for Water, an organization whose hundreds of paper-folding volunteers have helped raise over $650,000. The girls have been tapped as keynote speakers and have even been given what amounts to a lifetime achievement award from nonprofit Living Water International.
Globally, 783 million people lack access to clean water
and more than a billion lack appropriate sanitation facilities, a
problem the girls’ dad, Ken Adams, M.D., said would cost some $20
billion to solve. Sounds like a lot, but when you consider that people
in the U.S. spend over $400 billion during holiday gift-giving season
each year, his daughters see it as “definitely doable” to eradicate
global thirst in their lifetime.“If everyone in this world helps a little, it all adds up to a lot,” Isabelle told Good News Network. “Folding origami is an easy way for people of any age to help change the world.”
The Adams family has visited two of the wells made possible through Paper for Water —one in India a couple Christmases ago, and one this past Monday on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. Eager to meet as many of the families as possible who have benefited from Paper for Water’s work, the family is planning a 2017 world tour.
The girls teach their craft wherever they go.“It’s fun and it’s social and it’s a good way to use your brain to help other people,” Katherine said.
The simplest Paper for Water ornament takes an hour to make—and some can take more than five. One volunteer put over 22 hours into a single ornament, which will be on display at the girls’ exhibit at the Paper Discovery Center in Appleton, Wisconsin, starting in September.
You can buy the ornaments online at their website.
Photos via Paper for Water, Facebook
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