2024-2025 Calendar Fundraiser
Sponsor a child at the Paradiso Orphanage in Arusha, Tanzania for $365.00 (A Dollar A Day), or make a smaller contribution to go towards the annual operating budget. Funds are wire transferred to the Paradiso Orphanage.
- 100% of your donation goes towards support for the children at the Orphanage.
- Earl Hirtz will again generously provide a calendar of his own wildlife photography (designed by Jasmine Hirtz) for people who sponsor a child.
- 2011-2012: New Paradiso home was built with MOWW donations.
- 2013-2015: MOWW sponsors for each child allowed all of the children to attend school. Additional MOWW donations helped with food and clothing.
- 2016-2025: Ongoing support and sponsorship for each child.
GOAL:
At least one sponsor for each of the 26 orphans. These funds (A Dollar A Day) will go towards school supplies and help with food and clothing for the year. Donations of less than $365.00 will go towards annual operating expenses.
PROGRESS:
MOWW WOW!
19 orphans have a sponsor for 2025 and 3 children have two sponsors!
August 2022
Thank You from 26 grateful children!
January 2019 – Thank You from the children at Paradiso
Email message from Naomi on May 27, 2014:
Much greetings from us.THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND GOD BLESS YOU.Grandfather is so excited and also us children we are so happy and we are feeling like we are not orphans because of your help.Thank you for your support of taking us to school to get Education like those who are having parents.GOD BLESS YOU.
Yours Naomi
June 2015 – photo by Liana DiStefano Children of Paradiso Orphanage
October 2017 – photos by Ruth Sisk
Children are proud of their new school uniforms
How can you participate?
Make a donation to MOWW – click on the yellow “Donate” button on the above right or send an etransfer to moww.cc@gmail.com (100% of your donation goes to MOWW) Click on “The Paradiso Children” (menu bar at the top of this page) to see photos of the children with brief outlines of their educational goals. Donate $365.00 (A Dollar A Day) to “sponsor” a child and receive a calendar with professional photographs taken by Earl Hirtz.
MOWW-WOW! $ 174,720 from MOWW fundraisers and donations since 2011
Make a tax deductible donation to the Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention
Make a tax deductible donation to the Canadian Mental Health Association Edmonton.
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http://www.lifepassiton.ca/how-to-become-a-donor.html
Alberta now has an Alberta Organ and Tissue Donation Registry through myhealth.alberta.ca.
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. (Thomas Campbell)
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Gifts of Grief: The unbearable pain of grief shatters the castles you’ve spent your life building.
Left vanquished, naked in the sand …
you are cleansed … all the excess in your life washes out to sea. Through tears the sand sparkles back at you, unveiling diamonds in the leavings. (char 2011)
A parent’s love never dies. Life is eternal and love is immortal;
and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.(Rissiter W. Raymond)
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. (Kenji Miyazawa)
