Children's Home urgently needs food

Just got an email today that with the downturn in the economy the donated food to the children at the Majken Broby Children's Home has decreased. They are in need of beans, rice and flour to make tortillas. Please visit our web site to make a donation today. www.roatanchildrensfund.com

Lynn

Christmas in July

It's not too early to start thinking about Christmas
We need the following items for the children all available at the dollar stores.
toy trucks
soccer balls
white socks and underwear
toothbrushes
stuffed animals
girls hair ties
stickers
crayons and coloring books
small games and toys
Frisbees
coloring books
girls jewelry
pencils and erasers
Spanish/English dictionaries
other children's toys

for some of the children on Roatan these will be the only gifts they will receive.

Lynn

ROATAN EARTHQUAKE

The "Roatan Earthquake" struck early Thursday morning offshore Roatan. The epicenter was less that 30 miles from the Island and from all reports certainly awoke the residents to violent shaking. Most of the damage so far seems to be broken glass and things falling off shelves. We do not have a lot of reports of major damage.
All the children of the Majken Broby Children's Home are fine and they had the day off Thursday since all the schools closed for the day.
We have yet to hear about damage from all the outlying schools we help support. It may take several days to get those reports.
Thank you to all the folks who sent emails inquiring about the kids and asking if they needed help. Our biggest need at this time is money for bottled water and vitamins. We also have books, clothes, schools supplies and some supplies for Clinica Esperanza in the US that we could use help with shipping costs so we can get them to Roatan as soon as possible.

Lynn Fanelli

Thank you for your support

This letter is to give you and the childrens fund a million thank you for the school material that you sent down here this letter comes from the French Harbour Jared Hynds Community Center Library and my name is Joan Dixon, as soon as the material was delivered here at the library I started calling the kids that usually visit the library..... these people faces they were worth a million dollars of happiness those school materials came in a right time you see the school years down here starts in another month and these people has 3 and 4 up to 5 kids to get ready for school and it is very hard.....

2009 Calendars for sale

The 2009 Roatan Children's Fund Calendar are now available

http://www.roatanchildrensfund.com/calendar.htm

Thank you from the Arobia Welcome School

el dia viernes 21 de noviembre 2008, recibí dos cajas conteniendo varios materiales de oficina y para los niños, los que distribuire el proximo año escolar a los niños ya que este ya finalizó, gracias por su donacion, le aceguro que los niños el proximo año estarán muy felices con esos materiales. espero el otro año seguir contando con su ayuda.
feliz navidad y propero año nuevo.

E-Learning Center in French Harbor

The Roatan Children's Fund is proud to be a 1/2 Sponsor of the new E-Learning Center located in the heart of French Harbor across from Geo's Restaurant. The Learning Center is a safe and convenient place where the local children can go both before and after school. Help is available for homework, arts & cratfts and there is also a well equipped Library. The new Learning Center has recently received several new computers thanks to the generosity of Red Devil Scuba and the Smith Family with a donation from Sunrise Rotary of Chatham, Canada. Mitch Cummins of Paradise Computer on Roatan donated staff time to setup the computers.

The Roatan Children's Fund has committed to support the Learning Center and it's staff. 100% of your donations will be used for continuing this exciting project.