It's getting closer!! We are starting to gather what we need for our two trips to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The first trip will be to meet the children and testify in court. Then we will bring them home 1-3 months later after the visas are processed. Our kids are living in two different orphanages right now. Both places are always in need of items like formula, vitamins, and medicine. We would LOVE to fill every square inch of our bags with donations for the children!
If you would like to help us with any of these items, we would greatly appreciate it! Just let me know and I will be happy to come pick them up at your house. You can reach me at heeter_skeeter@yahoo.com
If you don't feel like shopping, I can do that for you :) I promise every penny will go towards the items below. When my bags are full, I can take money and buy supplies from the city. I could even help them buy items like additional beds, playground equipment, or fresh fruit for all the kids.
Here are some items they are in need of:
For the Babies:
* Formula - Bright Beginnings or Parent Choice Gentle Iron fortified powder
* Formula for Preemies - Enfamil Enfacare Powder
* Mixed cereal for older babies
* Baby Shampoo
* Baby bath soap (moisturizing for dry skin)
* cloth diapers (all-in-ones or prefolded with plastic diaper covers)
* rubber pants - all sizes to go over cloth diapers
* diaper rash cream
* sheets for cribs
* lots of small toys - like rattles, keys, teething rings, and chunky cars (please nothing made of material or stuffed animals. These collect germs with so many babies playing with them)
* bumbo chair
For Older children
* school supplies (handwriting paper, pencils, tools to learn English and ABC's)
* Lotion - moisturizing (with cocoa butter or shea butter)
* sheets for twin beds
Medication:
* Infant and child multi vitamins
* Neosporin or antibiotic ointment
* Hydrocortisone creams
* Pedialyte or Kaolyte - powdered form
* Infant and child decongestants
* Infant and child cough syrup
* Bactroban cream
* Vitamin D supplements
* Selsun Blue shampoo (for ringworm on the scalp)
* Lotramin Ultra or Lotramin ring worm (not off brands)
* Alcohol swabs
* Saline spray or drops
* Petroleum jelly
Thank you soooo much!!
- Heather
- I am Heather and my goal is to spend forever in Heaven with my family and friends. I have a wonderful husband named Mike and we have been married six years. We had two kids - Adrian and Cole. Then we fell in love with two beautiful children in Ethiopia. Liyone was four years old and Kidist was one. We welcomed them into our family in August 2011.
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2 comments on "Donations!!"
Hi Heather,
We were there just last month and we had 2 huge bins filled with donations, I was worried that we would be charged for the extra baggage (only allowed 1 suitcase each, less than 50# and 1 carry on, with Ehtiopian Airlines) Anyway, on the bins, we labeled it with a sharpie pen, real big "Donations for Sele Enat Orphanage," well the guy that checked our bags in didn't charge us anything extra (maybe b/c we wrote "donations" and "orphanage"on the bins). We were so happy that we didn't have to pay extra $ to fly the donations over. We were told, that it was up to each individual bag checker whether or not they would let donations ship free or not. Anyway, just something I thought you might want to know :)
Thanks for the advice Meg! We asked our travel agent and he said we could have 2 bags and 100 pounds per person. But I will check into that to be sure :) Just in case, I'll write a great big sign with the word donations on it. Thanks!
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