we're still here...

We hope you had a very Merry Christmas, and wish you a Happy New Year. We can't believe 2011 is less than a week away. This year has been hectic for us. Besides traveling to Canada, Mexico, Thailand and Kenya, Phil quit his job at DC earlier this year and we moved in with his family in Seattle, which has actually been wonderful. I graduated college with an associates degree in May (which only took 5 years), and we've both taken turns with health crisis. We learned a lot about women's rights, and the injustices that oppress women throughout the world. We've shared about domestic minor sex trafficking, and our journey of learning how to help trafficked and prostituted children here in the United States. Until Then, our non profit organization, is expanding and developing in more ways than we ever dreamed it could.

The hardest thing about working with street kids is having to understand the different realities they face, from homelessness to abuse and prostitution and and and... but to still have hope that life can change and that rehabilitation and reintegration into society is attainable.

In 2011 we want to learn more about hope. We're ending this year exhausted, emotionally overwhelmed and drained of just about everything. The world is dark and evil and takes everything it can from us. We sometimes see light, and I have my faith, but to be honest we're just mopey.

Below are three videos Phil did while we were in Kenya, and watching them is a reminder of the good that sometimes breaks through the bad. The first two are videos for Mattaw Children's Village. The last is a music video for our friend Sammy, you might reckognize him from Phil's documentary Glue Boys.

If you have some cash you need to get rid of in the next 4 days, Until Then will gladly take it off your hands and invest it for good. 100% of all donations are tax deductible and go directly to helping children around the world. 

Thank you for reading, we appreciate your support. 

Hurting for the oppressed, 

Dalene