Help Me Help Nana: September 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

Winner of Fall Gift Basket

First, Allow Me To Send Out

A Very Heartfelt "Thank You!" to Everyone Who Entered this Giveaway!

Because of your generosity, we were able to raise $50 for Nana's adoption fund. (Not bad at all, considering everything in the gift basket was donated to me for free!)

I was very excited when I discovered that the winner of the basket is my super awesome grandmother:

Margaret Femino (aka, "Mammy")

Congratulations!

Of course, you are all winners because of your willingness to help this little girl.

I hope everyone keeps checking this site for new drawings and other events.

If you ever want to donate something for me to raffle off, please let me know!

Why Help?

For a child like Nana, every day that passes is a step closer to a heartbreaking deadline. Most children born with Down syndrome (or other genetic disorders) in other countries are killed at birth; others are put into orphanages, where they will stay until they are five years old (read more about this at Reece's Rainbow). At five years old, if they have not been adopted, they are transferred to adult mental institutions. Once there, these children do not survive long. In most cases, money is the only thing standing in the way of a family adopting one of these angels. The typical cost for adopting a child like Nana is $20,000. Nana already has $1,000 funded toward the cost of her adoption. My goal is to help Reece's Rainbow collect the full cost of her adoption so that her loving family will not have to pay anything to welcome their beautiful daughter into their home.