One month and counting

Bonjou!
When I began planning for Haiti, it seemed so far away but the time is approaching fast.  I am getting great support from my family and friends, which is incredible.   I am beginning to work on packing and gathering donations for the orphanage. The question I hear from lots of people when they learn that I am going on this journey is   WHY ?? My answer is because I am able to go and I hope to help in some small way.  I have been very fortunate in my life; my family is number one, the children I have worked with over the years and the wonderful things I have been able experience through friends and travel. I am lucky!  Because of all that I believe that we should continue to grow and learn in as many ways as we can in our lives. I am sure there will be things ahead of me on this journey that I can't even imagine as I sit here in my home.
more to come

kathy nagle's Fundraising Page

kathy nagle's Fundraising Page
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Thank you,
Kathy

And So It Begins...A Personal Journey

In many ways she was a typical teenage girl but her humor, passion and deep sense of caring for those less fortunate made Britney Gengel memorable to all who met her. It was her compassion for others that brought Brit to Haiti, just a day before a catastrophic earthquake that claimed an estimated 230,000 lives rocked the small, poverty stricken country. Britney had spent the day visiting a Haitian orphanage where she and fellow students from Lynn University, on a Journey of Hope, met the small Haitian orphans they had traveled so far to help. Just a few hours later, Britney, three of her fellow students and two Lynn professors were dead, crushed in the rubble of their hotel. Britney was 19, her body was recovered 33 days later. But Britney’s dream did not die with her. Shortly before the earthquake, she sent a text message to her family.

“They love us so much and everyone is so happy. They love what they have and they work so hard to get nowhere, yet they are all so appreciative. I want to move here and start an orphanage myself.”

This is a personal journey. The  beginning was last year at my school's fundraiser for the BLB organization. It will come full circle  on the island of Haiti when I arrive at the orphanage that services the children Britney once dreamed of helping...please follow me and share the experience.
~Kathleen Nagle