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Ever since I was a little girl I've known that I wanted to help in underdeveloped areas around the world. 

I have been presented that perfect opportunity to serve in Swaziland, Africa!  I am overjoyed that I have been selected to journey with the Compassionate Life Foundation (CLF) for their 2016 Swaziland Mission Trip! The missions' team will be filling as many of the needs that we can at the El Shaddai Home & Elementary School  during a 12 day trip. Of course, there are great needs caring for the orphaned in Swaziland. 

The truth is:
   ~There are over 200,000 orphans living in a country  the size of New Jersey.
   ~The HIV/AIDS rate is the highest in the world!
   ~By 2020 there will be NO ADULTS in Swaziland unless something is done.

These numbers translate into many needs. Planting gardens; painting, hospital visits, and spending precious time with the children are some of the very things I look forward to doing.

The donated amount will be used to offset the travel costs, food, and supplies. Please help me to fund this Swaziland Missions Trip! 

          "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace! That where there is hatred, I may bring love. That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness. That where there is discord, I may bring harmony. That where there is error, I may bring truth. That where there is doubt, I may bring faith. That where there is despair, I may bring hope. That where there are shadows, I may bring light. That where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
         Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort, than to be comforted. To understand, than to be understood. To love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life."  Saint Francis of Assisi