Paper For Water was on Nickelodeon!
On June 17th, the amazing work by Paper For Water was featured on Nickelodeon: "The HALO Effect" television series.
HALO
stands for helping an leading others. Youth who inspire us to make this
world a better place create The HALO Effect. Every month the show
follows the stories of incredible kids who are using their passion and
creativity to help those in need. Ordinary kids doing extraordinary
things - that's The HALO Effect.
If you haven't seen the full episode, now's your chance. Click Here for the link. There are a lot of commercials at the beginning but once the episode starts there isn't another commercial until the end. Watch it and share it with your friends and family and anyone who doesn't know about Paper For Water! |
The Premier Party
Thank
you to the 150 plus donors and volunteers and friends who came out to
see the premier of our Nickelodeon episode on June 17th. Texas Health
Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas provided the perfect venue for the
event.
Garret Chambers with Pizza Patron was kind
enough to donate 45 pizzas and one of our board members, Holly Miori
provided the cookies for dessert. Everyone had a great time and the
Paper For Water message was spread to tens thousands across the United
States through the Nickelodeon HALO Effect episode.
Thank
you also to the Paper Dolls who helped serve the pizza and organize the
evening's festivities. A ton of ornaments were exchanged for donations
to help provide more people around the world with clean water.
Thank
you to Alison Ford, our regional representative from Living Water
International who also came and spoke about the fantastic work that
Living Water is doing around the globe. Thank you also to Karla Alfaro,
a board member for Dig Deep, the organization we partnered with for the
New Mexico Navajo Reservation project. Karla came and gave a brief
overview of the work being accomplished in 2016 on the Smith Lake
Reservation.
We
can't wait for the next TV show to be filmed and the next premier.
We're kind of teasing since there is nothing currently lined up. If
you have any connections, spread the word about what Paper For Water is
doing.
Paper Dolls update
Most Tuesday mornings around 11 am magic happens. A group of volunteers gather and spend the morning and early afternoon visiting, fellowshipping and folding paper.
Most Tuesday mornings around 11 am magic happens. A group of volunteers gather and spend the morning and early afternoon visiting, fellowshipping and folding paper.
On
June 24th, the Paper Dolls drove all the way to Oklahoma to meet Sister
Yen Pham. Sister Pham is a Vietnamese Carmelite nun who is an amazing
origami artist. Sister Pham has a love for providing clean water and
the Word of God to the Thirsty. She spent a lot of time teaching the
Paper Dolls some new techniques.
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The Paper Dolls are a group of women who fold origami most Tuesdays in support of Paper For Water. Let us know if you'd like to join. deb@paperforwater.org
The Paper Dolls are a group of women who fold origami most Tuesdays in support of Paper For Water. Let us know if you'd like to join. deb@paperforwater.org
First Presbyterian Church of Dallas and The Most Inspirational Donation of the Month
On
June 14th, Isabelle went to First Presbyterian Church Dallas to help
with their Vacation Bible School. Isabelle delivered a great
presentation and got all the youth excited and involved with helping to
address the World Water Crisis.
The VBS children collected coins for Paper For Water throughout the week.
One
kindergartner lost her first tooth while at VBS. She took it home in a
zip lock bag for the tooth fairy not knowing what would happen. When
the student and her grandmother came the next day she told the director
what happened earlier that morning. The grandmother who had gone to
pick up her granddaughters said as she was picking the kids up, "Oh, I
forgot to get your granddad's jar of coins this morning which we talked
about bringing. I am sorry." The little girls said, "It's ok. I have
$5 from the tooth fairy and I will take it. The grandmother asked if
she was sure and she said, "Yes, it's for kids who don't have any
water."
Updates from San Jose, Paper For Water's largest water project in 2016:
Here are some pictures from the San Jose Monte Chiquito project.
The community of San Jose
Monte Chiquito in Mexico is comprised of 421 local families (over 2,100
people). The community has a health clinic, primary, secondary, and
vocational school and a local church. The community families have been
unable to afford water from tanker trucks and have instead been relying on a
contaminated well.
Paper For Water joins
with Living Water International in celebrating that the Community of San Jose
Monte Chiquito now has access to clean water and the Word.
Link to PFW website