A Favor for a Friend

I knew a girl in high school named Anna.  Actually, I went to school with her little sister Katie, and I didn't know Anna that well except for the fact that she took my gorgeous senior pictures.  Anyway, through the magic of Facebook, we've kept in touch (because what else is Facebook for but talking to people you barely talked to in high school in the first place?).

Anna is one of those inspirational people, the kind you never think you'd actually know - she works for Feed My Starving Children, runs ANOTHER non-profit organization to help abandoned children in Africa, and at 25 years old is in the midst of adopting a Ugandan orphan with her husband.  Talk about being stretched thin, right?

Except it gets thinner.  Anna and her husband David thought their adoption process would take a couple years, so they planned out how they would go about raising the $30,000 it would take to rescue a child and grow their family.  Except the years of waiting they thought they had only lasted about five months.

Anna and David have a little boy waiting for them.  For them, specifically.  They have seen his picture, they know his name, and they have decided that this is their son - now they need to go get him.  The $20,000+ they have left to raise, they now need to raise by June so that they can travel to Uganda and pick up their son before the Ugandan courts close for a time.  They have come up with a simple idea to raise the money called Donate 2, Invite 25.

Anna and David are asking that you donate just $2 toward their adoption fund, then invite 25 friends to do the same.  The results would be exponential - if just 25 people invite 25 people, who in turn invite 25 people and all those people donate $2, their adoption will be fully funded.  There are other ways to help: their website features jewelry, shirts, and Ugandan-made gifts that all support their adoption, and there are instructions on how to donate Delta Skymiles you won't use (the airfare alone will cost them over $5000).  

So consider this my invitation to however many see this page; everyone is invited to help save this child.  Donate as you can, but please, please, share away on Facebook, Pinterest, Google+, wherever.  Anna and David just want to meet their son.