Charity Anywhere Foundation

Mexico with the Cottams

gordon — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:42:22 +0000

Ever build a house with a GoPro?

Well, Daniel and his family have! Check out a Christmas with the Cottams!

Mexico with the Mormons from Spencer Dryden on Vimeo.

New warehouse on redwood road

gordon — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 14:47:12 +0000

The fire did very little damage to our inventory. We have found a new place on redwood road. We are planning to move next Tues and Wed, March 12-13. We can use your help. Bring your pickups and trailers. Bill has offered 2 of his trailers. The new warehouse is about 1 mile from the old warehouse. I will be at the old warehouse at 8 am on Tuesday. If you can help after work, 5 pm we will still be working. Hope many can showup to make short work of the move. Same schedule on Wed.

BE GOOD AND DO GOOD.

Gordon Carter

Incaperina FAQ

gordon — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:31:29 +0000

1. How long has the program been running?
We started in one village – San Nicolas – following a visit there by a CAF dentist group in 2006, who were struck by the levels of malnutrition and
offered to fund a nutrition programme there. A year or so later we moved the programme to the town of Senahu, operating it partnership with the health
centre to reach the most severely malnourished children from the all the region.

2. What measurable results have we seen? Life expectancy increases? (I need concrete statistical data)
Children are referred to the programme by healthworkers and weighed with interview every 2 months. They leave the programme when they reach normal weight (for their height) and stabilise there. We have full excel data from the start of 2011, which we use to chart the child’s progress. For other purposes we
hope to be able to analyse the data. E.g. establish monthly average increases in response to new protocols. We also take before/after pics (I will send some).

How do we measure our success? Do we coordinate our efforts with any other non-profits or NGOs in the area? Can I look up data on the World Health Organization’s website?
Success is measured by:
1) Achieving healthy weights and maintaining them for 6 months, according to WHO standards
2) Rate of relapses/readmissions – <1% (factor influenced by education also received as part of the programme).
We work with:
1) Senahu town health centre (Ministry of Health)
2) Nutritional Recovery Centre, La Tinta Hospital
3) Referring doctors on both sites
4) Community Facilitators (employed by NGO subcontractors to the government) and nurses in the communities

3. How many families do we serve? How many villages?
In total we currently have 320 children from 87 communities served in five programme locations.

4. What do we want for the future?
1)To have in Senahu a nutrition training centre (there is not one nutritionist for the population of 80,000) where:
- Women can drop in as opposed to having to walk/travel up to four hours and then wait several more hours in our day clinics.
- Where we will have more time to interview and establish the causes of malnutrition in the family
- Where we can give demonstrations of what to grow and how to prepare nutritious food, as well as general health education
- Where we can store the products in a rodent-free environment
2) In the medium term:
- To have all “places” funded as CAF do (180 children) – on a continuing commitment, even more pressing need for the milk programme.
- To have better education tools – have three films and need to produce four more on subjects fundamental to the family’s health
- To have more outreach workers – currently only one, who serves 17 communities: 51 families
3) In the short term:
- a vehicle for the outreach worker
- a small generator to be able to show the education films in community health posts (they don’t have electricity).

5. What exactly do we give to the families? Is it just the formula? Or do we give them other supplies?
We have four integrated programmes:
- Milk for up to 6m old whose mothers have died in child birth or have no milk, and babies with cleft palates
- Incaparina % sugar for up to 5 year olds, and emergency malnourished/anaemic expectant mothers
- Health education via films in Q’eqchi’, and group talks where there is no electricity
- Outreach training in hygiene, sanitation, nutrition etc, where children don’t improve due to conditions at home

6. Is this only in the Senahu area?
Senahu and La Tinta, which consist of several hundred communities.

MILLIONAIRE WANTED

gordon — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:02:37 +0000

MILLIONAIRE WANTED: WE ARE LOOKING FOR A MILLIONAIRE THAT WANTS TO DIE WITHOUT A PENNY TO HIS OR HER NAME BUT BE ASSURED THAT HIS OR HER DONATIONS ARE USED IN A VERY VALUABLE, EFFICIENT, AND CHARITABLE WAY.

Koraput Education Project

gordon — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:17:23 +0000

Recently Pastor Singh announced that two of our students were able to pass the 10th grade exams because of the teacher’s efforts. Their names are Joseph Mahanandia and Gopana Mahanandia. With this exciting news came a dilemma. We were informed that it would cost $300 for the two of them to enroll in a college program and, by the way, they needed to enroll two days from the date of our e-mail. Because a couple of you have contributed ahead for the year, we had that much extra that we could send. If we sent that money, however, it would leave us short at the end of the year. I contacted Gordon Carter from Charity Anywhere. He brought me back to reality with one simple statement: “Proceed with faith. The Lord will make sure we have enough money when we need it.” That day he forwarded the money for our college-bound grads. The students were excited and all of the survivors rejoiced at their opportunity. Other students decided they would work hard to pass their 10th grade exams. Incidentally, my sister’s neighborhood decided rather than to give neighborhood gifts for Christmas, they all would contribute to our education fund. Some of the $300 has already been recovered. Thanks to each of you, a small school in Koraput is accomplishing what a $10 million school will do. Here are the pictures the pastor has sent.

About 5 minutes from my home, School District #91 is building a new elementary school. It is supposed to cost around $10 million and will be the most innovative and progressive school in the district. Yet, I doubt it will accomplish more than a bamboo Free Tuition school in Koraput India.Recently Pastor Singh announced that two of our students were able to pass the 10th grade exams because of the teacher’s efforts. Their names are Joseph Mahanandia and Gopana Mahanandia. With this exciting news came a dilemma. We were informed that it would cost $300 for the two of them to enroll in a college program and, by the way, they needed to enroll two days from the date of our e-mail. Because a couple of you have contributed ahead for the year, we had that much extra that we could send. If we sent that money, however, it would leave us short at the end of the year. I contacted Gordon Carter from Charity Anywhere. He brought me back to reality with one simple statement: “Proceed with faith. The Lord will make sure we have enough money when we need it.” That day he forwarded the money for our college-bound grads. The students were excited and all of the survivors rejoiced at their opportunity. Other students decided they would work hard to pass their 10th grade exams. Incidentally, my sister’s neighborhood decided rather than to give neighborhood gifts for Christmas, they all would contribute to our education fund. Some of the $300 has already been recovered. Thanks to each of you, a small school in Koraput is accomplishing what a $10 million school will do. Here are the pictures the pastor has sent.

Our two graduates and teacher on the step. Our Free Tuition school in the upper right.

Our grads with their teacher in front of the school. Congratulations to them!

Another little Miracle in Mexico FAITH and PRAYER works

gordon — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:07:03 +0000

This morning I was in Tijuana. I wanted to get home at a descent hour so last night I considered getting up at 2 or 3 am to take a taxi to the border and walk across so I could be at the airport before 6 am. Well, I wake up at 2 am and think I am too tired to get up now, sleep for another hour. At 3:30am I wake up and say ok lets get going. I wake one of the volunteers to lock the hospital back up as I leave. With my 2 suitcases, I walk down to the taco stand and wait for a taxi. Of course, I didn’t call for one thinking they would be running up and down the street all night. I also thought last night that I would be all alone on the street corner and could be mugged, murdered or kidnapped being all by myself. I am on the corner looking both ways for a taxi and after 10 minutes I realize that the street is totally dead. Two dogs are rumaging through the trash at Flash Grocery store. No people no cars. I rest easy, no mugging, murdering or kidnapping. Finally a car comes towards me and sure enough it is a taxi. I step out on the curb and waive my hand for him to stop. No stopping. I yell ALTO and PARE but no stopping. What do I do now to get down to the border so I can walk across and make it to the airport on time. I thought I could walk to the nearest gas station, 1.5miles away and get a taxi there. Wow, that is a long walk with luggage. I thought I will wait 5 more minutes and then start to walk. There was a pay phone on the corner but of course I had no number for a taxi and no coins to run the phone. I am locked out of the hospital to get someone to drive me down. No cars. 4 minutes and finally a car 8 blocks away is heading towards me. Yes, it has a taxi light on top. This time I get out in the road and waive him down. He stops and I ask him if he can take me to the border to walk across. In perfect English, he says yes. I just about hugged him. On the way to the border he turns on his radio. He tells me it is a Christian Radio station. He proceeds to tell me he is a member of the Apostolic New Life church in the neighborhood by the hospital. He also told me that he was heading home for the night but had prayed for one more passenger. I looked at him and told him that I was standing on the corner praying that a taxi would show up to take me to the border. We smiled at each other and he said that goes to show you who is in charge. Such a nice guy. He lives 5 blocks from the hospital.

I made it to the border, crossed in 30 minutes, took the trolley and made it to the airport on time to catch my first flight. Little things like this tell me that I am on the right road. It reassures me that faith and prayer works.

BE GOOD AND DO GOOD.

Gordon Carter

Upcoming Projects

gordon — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:13:57 +0000

A group of LDS Churchs Young Men will go to Tijuana an June 22-29.

Tijuana Projects:

Guatemala Projects:

India Project - April 10-25

Ecuador Every month we can work people at the head waters of the Amazon

Wood Carvings for Sale

gordon — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 05:13:24 +0000

Washington Zambrano brought some wood carvings from Otavalo Ecuador the last time he visited the United States on a Charity Anywhere trip. His intentions were to sell these carvings to help cover the cost of the trip. We still have a few of these hand carved statues left to sell.
For those of you that have traveled to Otavalo, this might be your last chance to purchase one of these wood sculptures made in Ecuador.
Below are the links to the carvings we have left. The money you spend on these carvings will go directly back to Washington Zambrano and the CAF Foundation in Ecuador.

Click here to buy: Moroni and the golden plates

Click here to buy: Jesus the Good Shepard

Click here to buy: Joseph Smith and Hyrum

Click here to buy: Jesus Second Coming

All Carvings

CAF in St. George Utah

gordon — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:09:20 +0000

Here is a recap of the local work being done in St. George Area

1. We put 75 packages together consisting of a new blanket, hygiene kit, toys for the kids in the family, school supplies and a few other things. We distributed these to the 75 families that were given food baskets on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Of the 75 delivered 5 to the Dove Center. This is the second year that Charity Anywhere has participated with the Basket Brigade in St. George. We also put together and distributed 40 packages for Homeless families in the St. George Area.

2. John Hilton and his family will be in St. George from December 12-15. We a building a play area at the Dove Center for Families. The Dove center takes in families, woman and children of abuse. We are also sponsoring Christmas for the Children in the Dove Center.

3. We will do another project for Betty and Jake in Anasazi Valley. We will do some work on the roof of the residence. Last year we put in a septic system, indoor plumbing, Shower, carpeting, washer and dryer.

4. We also donated some items for the annual Thanksiving Dinner at Red Rock School. This year they fed over 2000 people.

First Group from Dixie College

gordon — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:10:38 +0000

A small group of 10 students from Dixie College in St. George will travel to Tijuana on Dec. 15 to do some construction. If you would like to join them signup.

A small group of 5 pre-dental students from UVU will be going to Tijuana to help in dental offices. Then plan to leave Dec. 18 and return Dec. 26. Still have room for more.

A group of 14 from USU will be traveling to Tijuana to do construction. They leave on Dec. 29 and return Jan. 5. If you would like to join just signup.