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¤ LATEST NEWS AND NEEDS ¤
Donations Roll in, Spring 2009
School children in New York and in Connecticut have been key participants in the annual collection of goods for the children and people of Honduras.
A class in Rocky Hill's Griswold Middle School collected about 70 lbs of vitamins for Honduras. The students at East Haddam Elementary School collected 200 toothbrushes for early shipment to Honduras. We are grateful to all of these students and their teachers and administrators at both schools, who heard a need and stepped forward to help fill it for people who would otherwise go without these critical items. THANK YOU !!!
Little Friends on TV November 2008:
In November, Little Friends was featured on WTXX in their Crossroads program.
Crossroads Magazine
Hosted by Fr. John Gatzak and Stacey Sears
To view the program, go to www.ortv.org and use either the menu on the left side or the Site Index feature to click into "Our Television Programs," then "Crossroads Magazine," then "Watch Crossroads Magazine," then click on the November 29th show. If you slide the bottom clip on Real Player to the
22 minute point in the program, you can jump to the Little Friends interview.
Crossroads Magazine is a weekly "Good News" feature program, highlighting the people, events and happenings around the state of Connecticut with particular emphasis on the Catholic community. The good news stories are the backbone of daily living but are often bypassed in favor of the sensational and controversial. Crossroads presents the stories that should not be ignored. Crossroads Magazine is broadcast on Saturday morning at 10:30 on WTXX-TV The CW 20 and Saturday at 10:30 p.m. on WCTX-TV MyTV9 and is also available on the Internet at
Little Friends on TV October 2007
SEE OUR TV SPOT ON WFSB "EVERYDAY HEROES" FROM OCTOBER 19, 2007:
http://www.wfsb.com/everydayheroes/14380133/detail.html «Click on this link to see the written transcript and to activate the video itself by simply clicking on the right-pointing arrow »at the bottom of the video box that says "Everyday Heroes" pictured on the WFSB web site.
Special thanks to Nancy Kiely for submitting Little Friends International to WFSB for this honor!
¤ NEEDS
Wonderful wheels
Little Friends has a special project to raise money for (and spirits in) Honduras. Funds from this special fundraising will go:
1) to buy medicines for the medical clinics we support in Honduras, and also,
2) to purchase critical medical equipment, such as expandable wheelchairs.
The purchase of wheelchairs is an on-going project of Little Friends International, throughout each year.
A used wheelchair can cost as little as $100. Small donations add up quickly and allow us to make a tangible difference in someone's life. This amount gives someone's life back to them, instead of being confined to their home. They are such brave and worthy recipients who, with our help, can be given the life-long assistance of wheelchairs that will create a way for them to be independent and productive.
Donations to further the work are gratefully accepted
and may be mailed to:
Little Friends International, Inc.
3 Southbridge St.
Cromwell, CT 06416.
¤ Other News
Our very, very special clinic
The wonderful Jeffrey Manuck Clinic is up and running! Little Friends was able to construct it with just $6,000 in construction materials. The local people donated their time and labor doing the construction work, as a point of honor, since it is for them and their families. A visiting nurse is at the Clinic on a regular schedule, teaching health and first aid, and taking care of people's immediate medical needs. Little Friends has stocked the Clinic with a motorized bed, cabinets, commodes, walkers, and other essential equipment and fixtures, including generators and compressors. We are in business! We have an on-going need for donations to keep the Clinic well stocked with bandages, medicines, and other simple and essential items.
The people in the village that is now graced with the Jeffrey Manuck Clinic presented a dedication ceremony in October of 2006 to commemorate Jeff's memory and to honor the efforts that had been made to establish this needed medical facility. Their gratitude was clear in the loving care they had taken with every aspect of the ceremony.
Now Little Friends has been approached about setting up another clinic in an area that is in desperate of need of medical help, too far away from our beautiful Jeffrey Manuck Clinic to be accessible. We are interested in exploring whether anyone might want to provide seed money, or indeed, whether anyone would like to take this on and name the new clinic after a loved one. Please email us at admin@littlefriendsinternational.org or write to us at: 3 Southbridge St., Cromwell, CT 06416 if you would like to discuss the possibility of participating in bringing this lovely new concept to life!
¤ And...
Two of our very special friends
It was with great excitement that we received the news from KPMG that our friend, Mary Anne Hepburn and her husband Fred were honored for their volunteerism. 26 people were recognized nationally by her company, KPMG, a large multinational company. Mary Anne and Fred have hosted Joselito and his dad (see *story below this news report) when they were here for the surgeries on his face, and all that entails: providing them with food and shelter, entertaining a rambunctious 13 year-old, buying them warm clothing, and taking them back and forth to Boston for their medical appointments. KPMG made a donation of $1,000 to the charity of each winner's choice, and Mary Anne selected Little Friends. Thank you Mary Anne!