Roosevelt Island Based Orphans International to Hold Spring Gala Dinner Benefit, The Realms of Indonesian Culture
Roosevelt Island resident and Orphans International Founder Jim Luce forwards the above invitation for all interested to attend the Orphans International Spring Gala Dinner Benefit on June 4 at the Indonesian Consulate.
Orphans International (OIWW) was created:
... as a response to the global crisis facing orphaned children. OIWW has established a network of locally incorporated homes to house and educate children orphaned and abandoned after the Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, and the 2004 hurricane in Haiti.Last September, Roosevelt Island residents raised more than $10,000 for Orphans International.
... In 2008, OIWW will begin to move orphaned children into more permanent family settings by arranging foster care for Tsunami orphans in Sri Lanka. In this "Family Care" model, OIWW will arrange for donors to provide on-going, monthly stipends for the financial, health and educational support of the poorest families. OIWW also provides school oversight, after school tutoring, enrichment programs, health checkups, and monitoring of the child’s wellbeing.
Tragedies such as the recent cyclone that devastated the nation of Myanmar last Saturday, killing more than 20,000 people, demonstrates the great need for organizations such as Orphans International. According to the NY Times, a UN spokesmen said of the cyclone:
as many as one million people might have lost their homes and that some villages were almost totally destroyed.For more information on individual nations in which Orphans International provides services, take a look at their country blogs for Haiti, Indonesia and Sri Lanka as well as future country projects.
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Greetings neighbors! I am in Hong Kong, returning from Sri Lanka where we just opened a community center built by Giorgio Armani and Donna Karan where we have over 400 children now enrolled. The grim news of Myanmar has just washed over us and I am enormously frustrated that we have no Emergency Response Fund to send my staff from around the world to begin a community center with its usual health clinic, computer center, and classrooms -- and our OI Family Care Program -- where it is needed now so desperately. I understand that we have moved into the Montauk Credit Union in my absence, which gives me great hope for our future, however. See you all at Trellis or on the Tram when I am back. Cheers, Jim
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