A new Throne Room for the Children of Cerete is completed!

  It didn’t take long for the men and women of Cerete to put Orchid’s $3000.00 grant to good use. The materials were purchased and the trucks arrived bringing hope and celebration with them. The gifts were unloaded as if it were Christmas and the Elves go to work!           Then […]

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From Bogota to Katmandu (A story of one man, education and the internet)

  I originally wrote about Pierre, the “Orchid of Light” from Montreal in our post “The Rest Room Philanthropist”. That was back in September when he had just made the donation that linked two missions on different continents with the same dream. When he contacted me about his intended gift we began a series of […]

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The Philanthropic Dating Game

  Remember the old television show from the 60’s; “The Dating Game”? It was that crazy program where three bachelors or bachelorettes would sit behind a wall while someone badly dressed on the other side asked the wackiest questions they could. How each prospective blind date answered would hopefully lead to the perfect match and […]

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They need a flood of support!

  An email  call for help from Washington Gibaja Tapia and Orchids Mission in Peru “Path of the Heart“ After sharing lights in the native community of Chupani, we decided to walk down the valley to Ollantaytambo starting walking around 8:00 p.m. and we faced a big rain and there wasn’t any transportation to take. […]

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The Incomperable Lady Di

Diane hails from Whales, is a semi-retired trauma care nurse and was, as are so many seekers, moved by something unknown to pack up a suitcase full of medical supplies and fly it, along with herself to Ethiopia. She wanted to volunteer somewhere in Africa and the reports about the relative safety of this country […]

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