Our first donation!

We recieved our first donation in the mail today and we are so grateful! Thanks so much Jeff and Mauri Bleazard!

Excuse our less than decent appearance :)

A little about us and Village Volunteers

Village Volunteers is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works in partnership with rural village and capacity-building programs to support the development of sustainable solutions for community survival, education, and growth. Through collaboration based on friendship and the commitment to human rights, volunteers have the opportunity to strengthen ties across the boundaries of international borders, race, gender, age, and culture. Village Volunteers is dedicated to preparing volunteers to be culturally sensitive and educated about the goals and objectives of each community, inspiring a sense of global citizenship. We, Kendra Haynie, Larissa Smith, and Mara Whittier (Team KLM) have been accepted into one of their vounteer programs! We will be serving in the Missahoe Children's Home, in Kapando Village, Ghana. We will be going for four weeks in May. Tentative dates are May 6, 2010 to June 3, 2010.

As a team and individuals we know this will be a life changing experience, and open us up to the world around us. We hope our perspective educations can be a positive contribution to the children and village: Kendra Haynie, an Elementary Education major, Mara Whittier, a Social Work major, and Larissa Smith, an English Teaching Major. This is something we have dreamt about doing this since learning of others similar experiences. We now have the opportunity to fulfill this dream. Although we have been accepted, as college students, we do not have the means to come up with the funds necessary for such a journey.

All donations made to funding our expedition are completely tax deductible, and allow you to be a part of the service we will be rendering. With your generosity, in contributing to this worthy cause, we will keep you informed the entire time. You will be able to experience this service through a third party, and directly witness how your contribution impacted the children in Kpando Village. We will send photos, and letters of all our experiences. We will keep you all updated through this blog: There are so many ways to serve, and we consider you all as a part of this team!

If you would like to donate there are a number of ways. The easiest is through the PayPal button on this blog. Checks and cash donations are also accepted (and appreciated) and can be sent to:

Team KLM

855 E 700 N #4

Provo, Ut, 84606

Make all checks out to "Village Volunteers".

Their Federal Tax Identification Number is 20-0342079.