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April 2008

   -Norma Nashed, Founder/Executive Director of Reaching Hearts for Kids, with H.E. Japanese Ambassador Komano in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ambassador Komano asked us to submit a proposal and we are hoping the Japanese Embassy will build an elementary school for us in Ambo.

   -Norma with H.E. Ambassador Isam Bait Al Mal, Ambassador for Saudi Arabia in Ethiopia in his office in Addis.  Ambassador Bait Al Mal was very supportive and we hope for future cooperation.

   -Norma with H.E. Ambassador Tareq Guneim, Ambassador of Egypt Arab Republic to Ethiopia in his office in Addis.  Ambassador Ghuneim was extremely understanding and willing to help us acquire construction materials

   -Norma with 75 students in Grades 1-3 in Ambo next to our next home. 36 are own children and the rest are poor children from the community who cannot pay tuition.

   -Norma with our children in the new home that was sponsored by The Quiet Hour TV in Redlands, California, U.S.A.

   -Norma with a 13-year old girl from Ambo, Ethiopia, who has a brother in our home and they lost both parents to HIV/AIDS. She begged me to take her in our home, so I asked her to show me her home where she slept alone.  This broken igloo with nothing inside by a few sticks that made up her bed was all she had. But now she is in our home with her own bed and food and she goes to school.

 

March 2008

Reaching Hearts for Kids is proud to show you the photos of the home that was just completed for 37 orphans in Ambo, Ethiopia. This home was sponsored by The Quiet Hour TV in Redlands, California, USA. We plan to build another home so that we can separate big boys from little girls. Now our children will not have to commute to school as the school is on our land next to this home.

 

   We have 75 children in Grades 1-3 at the school that HELP International built next to our home. The children include our 37 orphans and other kids from the community seen with the school principal will have hope for a better future because you help give them basic education. The school needs an extension for Grades 5-8, a library and septic system with bathrooms. Thank you for helping make this possible.

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February 2008

   -Norma Nashed, Founder/Executive Director of Reaching Hearts for Kids accepted the invitation by the Beltsville Rotary Club to address the Rotary members on February 12, 2008, at the Holiday Inn in College Park, Maryland, USA.  During the presentation Norma showed the documentary video by the Voice of America TV.  The Beltsville Rotary Club has been donating to Reaching Hearts for Kids for the last two years and will continue their support.

In the photo from the left, Ed Peters, member of the Beltsville Rotary Club; Norma Nashed; and Yuksel Sagirlioglu, President of the Beltsville Rotary Club.

   -Norma Nashed accepted the invitation by the Ethiopian Ambassador in Washington DC, USA,  Dr.Samuel Asefa to attend the celebration of Black American History month at the Ethiopian Embassy on February 25, 2008.

In the photo from left to right:  Dr.Robert Wallace, Reaching Hearts for Kids (RHK) board member; Norma Nashed, Founder/Executive Director; H.E. Ethiopian Ambassador Asefa; Mr. Jerome Sander, Chairman of the Board of RHK;  Michael Oxentenko, President of Reaching Hearts International.

 

June 2007

   -June 5, 2007, Norma Nashed, Founder and Executive Director of Reaching Hearts for Kids, will leave with a group of 30 volunteers (27 from the U.S.; one from Belgium and two from Hungary) to help build the first home for orphans in our model village in Ambo, Ethiopia. Ambo is located 170 km west of Addis the capital. Mr. Frazier Mathis, Director of Global Vessels, will be heading the construction team. A team of dentists will accompany us to treat our orphans and poor people in the community. Our dentists will be working at the Ambo Public Hospital. For more details please read our Spring 2007 newsletter from a link on the Home page.

May 2007

   -Norma Nashed was featured on the cover of the Spring 2007 issue of the ASI (Adventist Servicemen and Industries)Magazine. You can read the story by visiting: www.asiministries.org

   -Norma Nashed was contacted by Dr. Billie Watkins, one of our donors, recommending that she sent an application for nomination for "Women of Worth Award" by L'Oreal Paris - USA. Additional news would be posted this summer about the public online voting. Mr. Robert Goodwin, President of Points of Light Foundation in Washington, DC, who did a commentary on the Voice of America TV documentary about Norma Nashed and Reaching Hearts for Kids. Points of Light Foundation was chosen to be the administrator of the "Women of Worth Award" for L'Oreal Paris.

April 2007

   -Reaching Hearts for Kids received the first quarterly check from the World Bank as a result of adding us on their list of charities. The funds represent donations from employees of the "Bank" and 50% matching funds from the "Bank". We will be grateful for you to circulate the news for people you know who work at the World Bank. Thank you.    -Symantec Corporation has added Reaching Hearts for Kids on its list of charities in 2007. Symantec matches 100% of employee donations up to $1,000 each. Thank you Symantec Corp. We kindly appreciate it if those visiting our website would share this news with those they know who might be working for Symantec Corporation.

March 2007

   -The Quiet Hour Radio/TV in Redlands, California, informed us on March 14, 2007, that they have approved the amount of $30,000 to sponsor building one home in our model village in Ambo Ethiopia, which will be named "The Quiet Hour Home".    -We now have four sponsors for four homes out of the 10 homes for orphans, plus a guest house and an office. We are still in need of eight more sponsors each at $30,000 which can be paid in three years. Reaching Hearts for Kids will be happy to name the home in the name you designate.

February 2007

"Reaching Hearts for Kids is registered with the Online Volunteering service, which is managed by the United Nations Volunteers programme.  This is giving us access to several needed services online. 

Thank you, United Nations."

January 2007


Norma Nashed gave her testimony at Collegedale Youth Group in Collegedale , Tennessee , while visiting in December. There were around 120 young people as there was another visiting youth group.


A visit by one of our volunteers to Motherly Care Orphanage in Kenya


Archive - News 2006

December 2006

*Korean SDA Churches in Maryland Support Reaching Hearts for Kids
http://www.comejesus.org/wskboard/read.asp?board=wskboard&id=2484&page=1

Norma Nashed was the official speaker for the entire Evening Service on Friday, December 15, 2006, at the Spencerville Korean SDA Church in Spencerville, Maryland, U.S.A. The generosity and outpouring of support for Reaching Hearts for Kids demonstrated Christ's compassion. Click this link to view Norma's photo with Pastor Doh who did the translation.

In addition, Norma Nashed gave her testimony at the Washington Central SDA Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, a few weeks ago. Pastor Cho informed Norma that "members were touched and most of them want to support sponsoring orphans of Reaching Hearts for Kids."

Another presentation and testimony will be conducted at the Baltimore Korean SDA Church after the return of Norma from Tennessee where she is scheduled to give her testimony on three occasions at the Collegedale Church while she is there.

Thank you to all the above churches for their compassion for the "least of these" and for their support.

*Charities of the World Bank Reaching Hearts for Kids is honored to receive a note from the World Bank stating that our charity is on the list of approved charities at the World Bank, effective December 2006. Bank employee donations will be matched 50% by the World Bank. Please help us spread the news. Thank you.

*Elyssa Nascimentois a young promising singer with voca chords made of "gold". She is dedicating her first album that she is working on to benefit orphans of Reaching Hearts for Kids. She is a Christian young lady that wants to impact lives of children for eternity. Thank you Elyssa.

*David Griffiths,a renouned musician and singer, is touring four major capitals of four African countries with an African International singer to hold Music Concerts in December 2006. David Griffiths also held a music concert with orchestra at the Kennedy Center. He is pictured here visiting Norma in her home which is her office and presenting her with a check and promised to give more to support Reaching Hearts for Kids. Thank you David.

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