December 5, 2009 

Dear Friends,

The River Fund’s work goes on, in Africa, India, and Florida.  We are helping to feed, clothe and educate orphaned and vulnerable children on three continents. We are helping them build sustainable agriculture, we are supporting their goals of empowering women with the tools they need for their families and communities, we are providing medical care and food supplements to the most vulnerable, and we are supporting vocational training and business development. 

In India and Africa, this patient long-term development is the model that actually works.  Here at home every gift, whether weekly groceries, a holiday meal or a fully loaded school backpack, comes with a big helping of personal attention and love.  

As you count your own blessings this season, please consider what you can share, and how you can help us make a difference. 

We want to thank the many people who have faithfully supported our work.  We realize that this year may be harder on you than usual; and yet, we still need your help.  Below are tax-deductible gifts, both big and small, that you can give to make a life saving difference.

Love, Jaya

• $8000 — Adds a third floor to our Little Hearts Orphanage in India.
• $5000 — Builds a home for orphaned children in a rural African community.
• $2500 — Builds a traditional well to provide clean water for a village.
• $1000 — Provides bed nets for a village to protect against malaria.
• $500 — Funds a 3 day workshop training rural women as peer educators and community leaders.
• $250 — Rents a tractor for spring plowing for the organic farming village of RARUDO, Uganda.
• $100 — Provides nutritious lunch to 300 needy and elderly in rural Florida / FEED EVERYONE.
• $75  — Buys a quality dairy goat which is given to child headed households.
• $50 — Supplies Holiday gifts and party for 10 children in rural Florida.
• $35 — Places a dozen baby chicks with an African household for eggs and income.
• $25 — Supports one Indian orphan with food, shelter, education in a loving home for one month.
• $15 — Gives backpacks filled with supplies to 3 school aged children in Florida.

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