Thursday, May 29, 2008

My Plan--read all of this!!

So I know that I haven't written in awhile and that was mainly because there has been so much going on but I wasn't planning on telling anyone until I got home and devised a plan. However, I feel that I should go ahead and prep you for my return home. I am leaving here in a week and a half and I can't even express how torn I am. The happiness of coming home to my family and friends but still having this terrible empty feeling when I think about leaving these kids.

One of the girls came up to me last night and told me that when I left she was going to cry and that it would pain her so much. I haven't connected with a lot of the girls but she is one of the few. The boys told me that I am not allowed to cry when I leave-- we'll see how that goes over.

Graduation is tomorrow and I will be missing it. It is going to be a very hard day for me when I realize that all of my friends back home are together celebrating.

So I might as well just jump right in:
I will be fundraising just over $51,500 when I return to Glen Ellyn. In the past week I have found out that 6 of the older boys will be getting kicked out of the orphanage due to the change in supervisor (the one who told me I was too small to be respected). With this money I will be funding food and a place to live for these six boys for the next four years until they can finish Senior High School. I know that this amount of money sounds ridiculous but I know that God will be faithful and will help me fund raise this money. This is my plan. A plan that is bigger than me and a plan that I was brought to Ghana to achieve. I fully believe that this is the reason I stayed the extra month and this is the reason that I was brought here in the first place.

There are so many details that I am not including in this e-mail simply for the fact that I am going to do this the formal way when I return home. I will be asking for donations and I am going to need your help. I will not be able to do this without the help of my family and friends. I hope that the fact that you have followed me on my journey up to this point will help.

So as of right now I do not want any donations. I am going to have biographies of all the boys when I return and I am going to be doing this in a way that is professional and gives you more information. I just thought I should let everyone know what has been going on here and why you haven't heard from me in so long.

I will e-mail again before I leave in the next week and half but right now I need prayers. Prayers that God will provide for these boys and will help me to achieve my goal. I am sorry that this e-mail is so vague. I promise that once my thoughts are organized you will know more.

Claire

P.S. Here is a funny story. Last night I was outside at the orphanage and it started to down pour so I ran to the social center thinking I could get in and walk through to my room. Turns out the social center was locked and so I stood under the canopy hoping the rain would stop. Well the rain kept coming and only got stronger. So strong in fact that the sewers flooded and I had to stand on a table so that I wouldn't be standing in sewage. I was there for about an hour. I was very very wet. That's all for now. I hope that made sense.

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