So this is week 4 of my little game of buying or selling something on craigslist each week for 52 weeks. Since I sold 2 items last week I get to carry one over for this week! So this week's item is a snowboard that I sold to a guy in his 30's who pulled up in a champaign Mercedes! What's with the cars? The guy I sold the clown head to pulled up in a black Porsche! Can't wait to see next week's Jag or Bentley!
So the money from this weeks item is charity bound as the board was actually donated as a silent auction item to my charity a few years back but it never sold so I had to take the matter to Craig and Craig never lets me down!
For those of you who don't know, my husband and I co-founded a charity in 2002 called Orphan's Hope Kids to Canada. We give financial grants of up to $10,000 to people adopting children from overseas who can't afford it. To date, we have raised over 1 million dollars and have offered grants to over 100 families adopting children from close to 20 different countries. We are the first charity of it's kind in Canada so the demand is overwhelming.
In my home office, I have dozens of pictures of orphans that we have helped adopt over the years. Last week, in the wake of the Haiti catastrophe, I looked at the wall focusing on all the Haitian children we have helped adopt over the years. My eyes settled on a picture of 3 siblings. There are actually 2 pictures of them. In the first, they are standing outside of their orphanage looking quite depressed. In the second, they have huge smiles on their faces as they had just found out that they were all being adopted together into one Canadian family!
Well, it turns out that I was too hasty in putting that picture on the wall as they are yet to be adopted! I called the adoptive parents last week and after much worrying, they had just found out that the kids were okay. They are now anxiously awaiting word for when they can get their kids home to Canada! My thoughts and prayers are with them and a few other families from our charity who wait with bated breath for word on when they can adopt their Haitian children. God speed.
www.orphanshope.ca
SALE: $120
CATEGORY: SPORTING
I had no idea that the same person who keeps fighting the good fight with our pal "Craig" was the same person who co-founded this amazing organazation. You continue to surprise me.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the sale, but more importantly, congratulations on being the kind of person we're all trying to be.
Jay
You're a sweetie Jay!
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