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Anne Frank

Monday, October 15, 2007

The Golden Village

Following this post we’ll stay up to date with Pam’s trip to Vietnam and Cambodia—which is in progress now. Her first email came in this morning so keep checking in to see what’s going on.

For now—this is from Ghana:

With the rescue of these three boys George and Anna now have 13 boarders. The stress is palpable. The children are flourishing and full of hope and joy. It is of utmost importance that we complete the first cottage at The Golden Village. We (myself and The Golden Village team) have been able to secure estimates of both timing and cost of the necessary infrastructure to complete the building of phase one. The walls are up and the roof is completed on the first cottage.



We can provide 20 children with a home and allow the Achibra family to have some breathing space within their own home again. Any help would be a blessing to the children and to George and Anna.

We were able to move Ezekiel, Ebenezer, Kobi and Kweitey down to The Village of Hope during my last week.


They joined “The Fantastic Seven”. George and Anna are caring for the other nine now.

The Village of Hope is filled to capacity now which forces us to suspend actively seeking to free trafficked children until room can be made to care for them. We can take only emergency cases right now…but to us, EVERY one of these trafficked children is an emergency case!

Where would these children be without people like you????

2 comments:

Tammie's Thoughts said...

Where in Ghana is this Golden Village in relation to village of Hope or Kumassi? I'd like to get an idea of where it is in the country.

Touch A Life said...

It's twelve hours north in the Lake Volta Region--where the kids are being rescued. We'll put more detail on here later after the Veitnam/Cambodia trip. Thanks!