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Kansas Girl, 7, Makes Art for Charity, Builds Orphanages With Her Profits
Isabelle Redford, 7, began her journey with the idea of providing aid to C3 Missions and the Global Orphan Project. She helped by hand-making gift cards. Her parents, Kevin and Kelly Redford of Parsons, have done mission work in Haiti and they explained some of their work to Isabelle on their return in 2005.
"I like to draw cards because I can raise money to help the orphans and help them have a home to live in," Isabelle said.
Helping orphans has become Isabelle's cause. It started two years ago when she was 5.
Her mother, Kelly Redford of Parsons, Kansas, told her a story about twin girls in Haiti whose mother died during childbirth. "She immediately looked at me and said, 'What can we do, we have to help,'" Kelly said.
Isabelle has raised a little more than $10,000 through card sales, garage sales that include some of her art work, toys, clothes and baked goods with the help of her family. Her first missions home she helped build was in Tiatayn, Haiti, in Hope Village.The second home is scheduled to begin construction soon in Ghana or Kenya, Africa, on $5,000 she earned through card sales and donations from churches and other youth organizations.
Isabelle now has a blog (artsfororphans.blogspot.com) and Global Orphans’ Project has a Web site (http://www.theglobalorphanproject.org), which has a $1 million challenge going on until Sept. 20, with a dollar for dollar donation match to assist orphans through C3 Missions and Global Orphans Project. Read More >>
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