Can I borrow 20 bucks? yea, seriously.

Dear Friend,

I hope you are getting into the Christmas spirit! I found a tree in the city near our village for a good price and the kids love it. I’ll tell you strait out the gate that I’m going to ask you for $20 for Christmas. There’s a young boy here whose name is Ajith. He’s 11 years old, but about the size of an eight year old. He stays at the house for the toddlers because he would surely be trampled if he stayed with kids his own age.

Only about 30% of his lungs work. The HIV makes the kids more susceptible to catching TB and other infections, especially before they come here to the orphanage and don’t have proper care. I went with our priest to take him to one of his doctors appointments. The doc explained that his bronchi (or something like that, I don’t know much about that sort of thing) are enlarged which keeps mucous and fluid in his lungs that are already only working at 30%. He said that he needs a machine to wear at night (like a sleep apnea machine) in order for their to be oxygen in his blood to prevent further organ damage. The machine is $1,000, or about how much it costs to run the whole orphanage for a month. We don’t have the money, but with your help I figured, hell we can find just 50 people to donate $20 bucks to save a kids life.

Even though I work with them everyday the concept of an orphan is still hard for me to grasp, but think of it- this kid has no family. If we don’t vouch for Ajith, who will? I hope that you’ll help him out.

Technical stuff-- It’ll work best if one person can collect & then western union it over because we can only withdraw about $150 a day. Sorry that it won’t be a tax deductable organization-- we’re doing this kinda scrappy and want to get it done in the next week or so. We've got a pay pall set up, just click the button. I’ll post a list of everyone that has donated (unless you would like to remain anonymous) so you can see who has donated and that we’re not keeping the money. I’ll also put up some photos of the machine once we get it.

Hope y’all are doing well & thanks for your help. Mention this to other folks that you know that may want to help out. All we need is 50 people to give $20. We can do this.

Cat Archer

**Can't figure out this damn 'donate' button yet, gettin there.. Send me a msg if you want to help out for now. We're on a time restraint**