Topic: Donate to a good cause! Building homes for the homeless. (Read 5256 times)

I apologize for taking so long to finally post these since I've been back. Our trip was a resounding success. We build 3 homes in the week we were there, and each of the 3 families had very different stories for why they needed these houses. 2 of the parents were for young couples with young children, so they could live in a house that was more than just pallets or cardboard. Cardboard doesn't do so well in a sandstorm. The third house was for a couple who's parents were sick, but lived an hour away, so they were able to move in with their daughter who could care for them. We also visited an orphanage for troubled or neglected children, and spend 2 days working on fixing up some of their facilities, and playing with the kids. It was great.


Here are some pics of the building of the house. It's nothing amazing, but during the 3rd day, a sandstorm hit us, and it was cool that a house that wasnt there 3 days before was now protecting all 20 of us. It's the only house for miles with sheetrock, insulation, and sliding windows. Click for larger images.


This is the family my group was building for. There is the mother, her boyfriend, and their 8 month old son. She is part of a larger family, and you can see her siblings and parents as well.


Mama, Papa, Baby, and Auntie all putting their handprints in the threshold.


These are some of the kids from the orphanage we got to play with. They're either orphans, which means their parents abandoned them, or neglected, which means they were removed from their homes and put here, as no relatives were able to care for them. Either way, you would never know, as the 3 year olds all the way up to the 13 year olds were all very happy and smiling and willing to play with you all day long, something rare to find in an orphanage!



Finally, THANK YOU to all of those who donated BTC to help fund this trip! It was an awesome, tangible way to help make the world a better place, and to help facilitate 20+ high school kids through that journey was humbling for me. If you have any questions, ask away! 

Aaron,

This might sound very crazy, but my family members do the same thing. My aunt is a minister and her son, my cousin just left for Oaxaca, Mexico on the 13th and returned the 20th. Maybe some sort of super coincidence or perhaps you know each other? Do by chance happen to be in Connecticut. You can PM me if you don't want to post details publicly.

Looking forward to seeing the photos. I think every young person in first world countries should have this type of opportunity. The perspective gained through such a trip is invaluable and affects you for life.

Well, the dates for the trip have come! We'll be leaving early tomorrow morning (3am) to catch our 7:30am flight, and gathering all of our supplies. We start building on Monday, and finish by Thursday. 2nd half of Thursday and Friday will be spend working at an orphanage there, again doing some maintenance and upkeep on their facility, as they don't have the means. We come home Saturday. I won't be on the forums again until at least then.

I just wanted to say a giant Thank You to all those that donated! Bitcoin donations funded about 40% of my trip, and I think that's just plain awesome! I will post pictures of the young couple and their 8 month old boy and their new house wen I get back. Thanks again!

Aaron

Thanks for taking the time to look into them. However, I think you bolded all the wrong parts. I fixed that for you. You somehow seemed to have extrapolated information about their candidate selection process from an excerpt of their site that does not have anything to do with that. I think you got confused. Yes, the organization uses local pastors who are familiar with the local community to identify candidates for the receipt of these houses, but the people we are building for do not even go to church.

This is the project's self description, taken from their website. Emphasis added by me. By donating you are supporting religious missionaries who who are doing this only for their fellows, not for any homeless person, like the thread title kind of suggests.

We do plenty of stuff in our local community, but the needs aren't quite the same.

They've changed their minds, and they're now saying that North and South America are one continent, and Antarctica isn't a continent, but Europe and Asia are somehow still their own, separate continents.

We've got some sound logic here, folks.  

I'd say more, it actually was in North America!

Last time I checked Mexico was still in America..

Do this in America, and i'll donate regularly.

Thanks!

To those who have donated in the past: the increase in price over the past month means that every coin donated to date goes even farther. As it stands right now, 20% of my trip has been funded through your donations. Amazing! 

1 btc more on road 

I wish you best of luck

Neotrix

None taken. I set up a new address just so anyone can see the coins as they've come in. As you can see according to Blockchain, I havn't converted the coins into USD yet. Once I do do that, I'm not sure how to publicly track their actual donation. Do you have any suggestion on this matter?

Dont take this offensively in any way, but how do we know the Bitcoins are getting where you say they are?

sent a little something
do good

actually,
the same problem happened in china.
but how to solve it not just donate BTC can be solve it.
this a global problem.

I saw a donation come in, and then saw you posted here. Thanks!

I just sent something for the good cause

Thanks! It can sometimes seem like TOO big of a problem. But like I said, they've already build hundreds and hundreds of homes already, and we are on the way to building hundreds more.