Thank you Zebra Pen Corporation!

Zebra Pen Corporation donated 120 pens and 240 pencils to our Ghana Container Project!  Thank you so much.    That means that 360 children that didn’t have a pencil for school will now have one.  It may seem like a little thing to us, but I had a 12 year old boy (Obed) help me the whole time I was in Bamboi last April and the only thing he asked me for the whole time was one pen.  He saw me writing in my journal and was so excited to get one pen.  Zebra Pen Corp., you are making a positive difference in your world!

Port Townsend Paper Corporation went out of their way to help us!

Thank you so much Port Townsend Paper for your donation of paper rolls to send to the children of Bamboi, Ghana.  Paper is very difficult and expensive to find in Africa, so you donation will be cherished by the school children.

I also want to thank Karen Moegling for going above and beyond the call of duty by bringing the paper donation closer to us.  We would have had to drive for 8 hours round trip to pick it up from your mill and Karen was willing to bring it with her when she came to our area. 

I am very excited to be able to get pictures of the children with your donation!

Wow! Thank you Sports Gift, Inc. for your donation

I am blown away with the donation from Sports Gift, Inc.  I was just inventorying it and packing it into the container today and was so excited as I was thinking about the children that would be receiving the complete team jerseys,  shin guards, cleats, and soccer balls.  I can picture their faces now!  I can’t wait to be able to get pictures of them to be able to show all of you.

We will be hosting a soccer clinic in Bamboi when the team arrives in Aug. 2009.  There will be such a buzz in the villages when the soccer equipment comes out.  When we were there last April, the children were playing with a soccer ball.  It was completely slit in half and they still cherished it and played with it.  Sports Gift, Inc. supplied us with approx. 125 balls and 12 or 13 complete sets of team uniforms!

Thank you to Stan Langaker for being willing to drive out of his way to pick them up for us in Southern California.  I knew that God would show us a way to be able to get the donation brought up to the container.  It is an amazing story, I hope I can share it with you sometime.

Help us make the world a better place!!!

We are a non-profit mission’s organization based in Maple Valley, Washington.  Our current outreach project is touching lives both locally and globally. We bring local teenagers from Washington State to serve the poorest tribe in Ghana, the Mo Tribe. 

Our passion is to raise up our local teenagers with the desire and knowledge that they can change the world now.  They don’t have to wait until they are older.   

We are sending a 40′ shipping container filled with supplies.  Our main focus is the children of the village.  Our desire is to provide: dehydrated food, hand and yard tools, bikes, children’s underwear, shoes, medical supplies, children’s vitamins, soccer equipment and school supplies to help train up the next generation. 

Would you assist us in this outreach by providing a tax-deductible donation? 

Once our container is shipped in June, we will have a team of local teenagers and adults going to Ghana to distribute the items and to reach out to the people, in particular, the children of this village (Bamboi). 

Your donation will give us the tools to have an incredible impact on so many lives.  If you would like to learn more about his project, please visit my blog at www.godshands.wordpress.com or I would be happy to answer any questions.

Thank You,

Dustie Torp
Dustie@RealMissions.com
425-413-7325

Real Missions
P.O.  Box 1511
21415 Maple Valley Hwy
Maple Valley, WA  98038

Thank you to 3M for your donation!

Thank you 3M Corporation for your willingness to help with the Ghana Shipping Container Project!  I am excited to receive your case of packing tape to help with packing the container.  Your donation will save us a lot of money and allow us to be able to securely pack each box properly for shipment. 

Together, we are going to make a huge impact on the village of Bamboi, Ghana!

A big thank you to Grays Harbor Paper, LP

I am very excited to announce that Grays Harbor Paper, LP has donated 80 cartons of 8 1/2 x 11″ paper to our project. That is 2 pallets worth of paper! I am arranging pick up right now. That will make a huge impact on the schools of Bamboi, Ghana! Thank you Terry H. for all of your help.

UPDATE: The white boxes with the green tops in the picture are the 80 boxes of paper from Grays Harbor Paper, LP.  I figure it out…they donated 400,000 sheets of paper!  WOW!

We purchased the 40′ shipping container!!!

I am so excited to share with everyone that we have actually purchased the container now!  It will be delivered on April 22nd.  I purchased a 40′ high cube, because I was told that it makes a better building once it is emptied.

Now I am busy working on actually filling it.  My house is full of supplies for the container, but once they are packed properly and stacked in the container it will seem like nothing.

My main focus at the moment is soccer equipment and nice computers.  Bamboi just got connected to the Internet, so if I can get the schools some computers imagine the world that will be opened up to them!

If you have any contacts for supplies that can be donated, please let me know.  I am a part of a non-profit, so it is tax-deductible.  I am located in Washington, USA.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us get this far!  I am looking forward to this next phase of the project.

Thank you Lisa Young from “The Hopechest”

I have recently met a wonderful lady named Lisa Young.  She runs a non-profit called “The Hopechest”.  Her organization can be found at www.thehopechest.org.  I highly recommend checking it out because I love what she does for local families in need.

Lisa has spent some time talking with me lately and really encouraging me.  She sat down at a computer and showed me how she does what she does.  Lisa is excellent at finding grants from corporations that want to donate to worthy causes.

With the knowledge that she has given me, I have been able to apply for several grants.  I also learned a lot about the companies in my local area.  Many are very generous and it has given me a new appreciation for all that they do.

I found an organization that donates soccer equipment to non-profits!  I was so excited to find that organization and after reading the grant application, I really feel good about how we can help each other.  They want soccer equipment to go to underprivileged children in the world and that’s what I am doing.

The last few weeks have been very exciting….thank you Lisa for pouring gasoline on my fire!

Bamboi, Ghana just received ELECTRICTY!!!

I just received an e-mail from my Pastor that shared the amazing news that Bamboi, Ghana just received electricity!  They have been celebrating for over 3 days straight.  The Paramount Chief of this region, Nana Kwaku Dappah, II has been working on bringing electricity to his people for quite a while and it finally happened!  Nana is the Chief of the poorest tribe in Ghana, The Northern Mo Tribe.

Nana’s next endeavor will be to bring running water to his main village.  Please be praying that he finds favor with the government and can bring life-giving clean water to his people quickly.

This is the village that my daughter, Vanessa, and I are working on filling a 40 foot shipping container full of needed supplies (books, encyclopedias, school supplies, children’s vitamins, soccer equipment, and bikes) and sending it to them.

Thank you for your prayers and your support!  If you would like to get involved financially you may go to http://www.reallifechurch.com/ and donate online under “Ghana Shipping Container”.  All donations are tax-deductible.

We are in need of a 40 foot shipping container that is sea worthy!  My daughter, Vanessa, has done a great job in collecting donations to send to Bamboi, Ghana, but our basement is overflowing with supplies and we need to get the donations into a container.

If you have a container that you would be willing to donate to our cause or will sell it to us for a good price, please contact us.  We are a part of a tax-deductible organization (Real Missions), so all donations will be tax deductible.

If you haven’t read our blog yet, my daughter and I are sending a container full of supplies to the poorest tribe in Ghana (The Mo Tribe).  We are including school supplies, soccer equipment, bikes, etc.   We visited the tribe in April 2008 and were shocked that the schools had nothing.  They literally had a room with some bench seats and a small table attached and black paint on one wall to use as a chalk board.  They didn’t have any books, maps, nothing!

I had one 12 year old boy (Obed) that helped me talk to the younger children the whole time we were there.  He saw me writing in my journal and the only thing he asked me for the whole week was one pen.  That trip touched us so much that we want to do something to make a difference in their lives.  Would you be willing to help us?  Do you know someone that may have access to a shipping container?  Could you make a tax deductible donation to help us with the cost of shipping?  If so, please make a check out to “Real Missions”; PO Box 1511; Maple Valley, WA  98038 or you can give online at http://reallifechurch.com/index.php?nid=25866&s=rs.  Please just note that it is for the “Ghana Container Fund”.  You may also go into any Key Bank and make a donation by specifying that it is for the “Ghana Container Fund”, it will not be tax deductible if you do it this way.

We still need to raise about $8500, which includes the cost of a shipping container.  If we can get one donated, then it will not cost as much.  My daughter has done many public presentations to let people know about this project.  She has been very successful in collecting donations of supplies, but it has been harder to raise the money for the shipping costs.  We were hoping to send the container a while ago, but we will continue until we complete the project. 

If you know of any businesses that would like a tax deduction while helping a teenager to reach her goal of supplying a shipping container full of needed supplies to the poorest tribe in Ghana, please forward this information on to them.  Thank you so much for any help that you can be!  Together we can change the world!